How we check
Every fact on a profile shows where it came from (a link), how we know it (an evidence label) and the day we saw it. Anything we could not find stays empty and is marked NC (not connected): it means “not found on public pages”, never “no”.
Sources
- The MSP’s own website: home, about, services, industry pages, case studies, partner/technology pages, support and contact pages.
- Google Maps rating and review count of the MSP’s own listing. Clutch and G2 are not read: G2’s terms forbid automated collection and we could not confirm Clutch allows it.
- Public DNS of the MSP’s own domain: mail records (Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace) and a short fixed list of client-facing hostnames (support., portal., help., remote. …) that point at a vendor’s hosted service, such as a HaloPSA portal or a ScreenConnect page.
- Google Maps for the business name, address and switchboard phone of the listing.
- Companies House (UK) for company number, status, SIC codes and incorporation date: matched by the number on the MSP’s site, or an exact name match with an IT SIC code.
- The MSP’s own LinkedIn company page (the one its site links to) for the company size band only.
Evidence labels
- listed on their site
- The MSP names this on its own website (service, industry or policy pages).
- industry page on their site
- The MSP has a page or section for this industry.
- case study on their site
- A case study or client story on the MSP’s site names this industry.
- partner badge on their site
- A partner logo, badge or partner statement on the MSP’s site.
- named on their site
- The MSP’s own pages name the tool.
- named in their job ad
- A current job ad by the MSP names the tool.
- listed in the vendor’s partner locator
- The vendor’s public partner directory lists the MSP.
- detected (public DNS)
- A public DNS record of the MSP’s domain points at the vendor (for example a client portal hostname, or mail records for Microsoft 365 / Google).
- detected (link on their site)
- The MSP’s site links to its own page hosted by the vendor (for example a remote-support or client-portal link).
- Google Maps listing
- The business’s Google Maps listing.
- public register
- A public company register (UK Companies House).
- reported by the company
- The MSP says so on its own site.
- their site’s structured data
- The schema.org data the MSP publishes on its own site.
Our crawler: MSPScopeBot
- Identifies itself as
MSPScopeBot/1.0 (+https://mspscope.com/how-we-check). - Reads and obeys
robots.txt. Makes at most one request per second to any host, and about 15 page requests per MSP per check. - Public pages only. It never logs in, never submits forms, never probes ports or private paths, and does not try to get around a block: a site that refuses it is recorded as unreadable.
- DNS checks are ordinary public lookups of the MSP’s own domain; nothing is fetched from vendor systems.
To block it, add User-agent: MSPScopeBot / Disallow: / to your robots.txt, or ask us to remove your listing.
Re-check cadence
Profiles are researched in waves. Each profile shows when it was last checked. We aim to re-check each profile at least every 90 days, and support pages more often.
What we never publish
- No names, emails or phone numbers of owners, staff or technicians. Only the business switchboard and generic mailboxes (info@, support@ …) the business publishes itself.
- No ratings, reviews or rankings. The order of lists is by how much we know about each MSP, then name.
- No paid placement and no boost for LTVplus’s partners. LTVplus works with some of the vendors whose tools appear here; that never affects which MSPs are listed or how.
- Nothing inferred beyond the evidence: a tool counts only when it is badged, named, advertised in a job or visible in public DNS.
Wrong or out of date? Claim or correct a profile.