What Denver Dean's List Is
Denver Dean's List is an independent editorial publication covering the Denver, Colorado metro area. We research and publish curated Top 5 and Top 10 rankings of local service providers — eleven published rankings to date, spanning HVAC, plumbing, roofing, electrical work, remodeling, landscaping, and more. We are not a directory, and we are not a lead-generation service: no business supplies our copy, and no listing is an advertisement.
How Rankings Are Made
Our methodology is verification-first. Before a company appears in any ranking, we confirm that it operates a live official website, and we weigh what can be independently checked: Colorado licensing records through the state's Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA), Better Business Bureau standing, and each company's public review history. Rankings are ordered by the weight of verifiable credentials a company publishes about itself — where a company publishes little that can be checked, the page says so rather than filling the gap.
Companies cannot pay for placement. No business can pay to be included, to move up, or to remove a competitor, and reader nominations are evaluated under the same criteria as businesses we find through our own research.
Our Verification Pipeline
Verification does not stop at publication. Every published page on this site runs through automated, continuous checks: outbound links to company websites are re-verified on a schedule so a listing whose domain dies or goes to a parked page is caught, structured data is validated against what the page visibly says, and the citations behind our factual claims are link-checked. When a check fails, the page is corrected — not quietly left to drift.
Corrections
When we get something wrong, we fix it and note the update on the affected page. If you spot an error — a lapsed license, a closed business, a claim that no longer holds — file it through our contact page with a source we can verify, and we will review it promptly.
The Editorial Team
Rankings are researched and written by the Denver Dean's List editorial team and published under the publication's name rather than individual bylines — the methodology, not any one writer, is what a ranking rests on. The team can be reached at [email protected]; we read and answer every message.
Business Relationships
The business relationships of our publisher, and how they are kept separate from our rankings, are disclosed in full in our disclosure statement.