About this site

What this is

An independent guide to home and business security systems in the Oklahoma City metro. We are not a security company. We do not install, service, or monitor anything, and we have no opinion worth having about which alarm panel you should buy.

What we do is read the rules — the state licensing act, the city ordinances, the fee schedules — and write down what they actually say, with a link to each one.

How this site makes money

There is exactly one commercial slot on this site: a single recommended local provider block. Wherever it appears, it carries a plain-English line saying what our relationship with that company actually is - including, right now, that they are not paying us. If that changes, the line changes with it.

We are not a security company. We do not sell, install, service, or monitor alarm systems, and we never quote a price or design a system for anyone. We publish information, and when the slot is running we pass along inquiries. If you want work done, a licensed Oklahoma company does it, not us.

Everything else follows from that one decision:

• No guide on this site names a company as a recommendation. Not once. The advertiser lives in one place and never touches the guides.
• Paying us cannot change what a guide says. There is nothing to buy that would change it, because there is no ranking, no list, and no review to move up in.
• We do not print a license number as a badge. A number published once quietly goes stale the day it lapses. We show you the state list instead, so you can check any company yourself - including the one we recommend.
• We do not run affiliate links. Most security content on the internet earns a commission when you buy. Where we cite a source that is paid that way, we label the source itself.
• We do not sell your details to a list of contractors. When the slot is running there is a form, and what you type in it goes to one company so they can call you back - nowhere else.

The rules we hold ourselves to

1. Every number links to its source. Fees, deadlines, code references, our own measurements. If we cannot link it, it does not go on the page.
2. We say when we could not verify something. There are several places on this site where we tell you we could not confirm a figure and give you a phone number to call instead. That is deliberate, and it will keep happening.
3. We label sources that are paid. The only usable pricing data for this industry comes from companies that sell leads to the contractors they price. We use it, and we say so in the same breath.
4. We flag contradictions rather than picking quietly. Where the City’s current page and its own ordinance disagree on a fee, we print both and tell you who to call.
5. Everything carries the date we checked it. Rules change. A guide without a date is a guide you cannot use.

What we are not

Not a licensing authority, not a legal service, and not a substitute for asking the Oklahoma Department of Labor or your local fire code official when the answer matters. We point you at the primary source on every page precisely so you can go and check.

We are also not the fire marshal. If something in your building looks unsafe, call someone about it today rather than reading a guide.

Corrections

If a number here is wrong, we want to fix it — a wrong fee on a page like this wastes somebody’s afternoon. Tell us on the corrections form and point at the page. It reaches the people who write this site, and it is not an enquiry for a security company — nobody will call you about it.

Our own measurement method is written up in full on how we measured, including a figure we removed after it failed checking.