The adaptive study system
No 300-page binders. No grinding commutes or boring classes. Just an adaptive four-step loop you can run in 20 minute sprints until the readiness score says you're ready. License Ladder helps you focus where it matters most.
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Every exam topic, one card at a time, in plain language with the exact numbers the test asks for. Yours to keep.
Insurance, Bonds, & Liens
Workers’ Compensation
Workers’ Compensation
Workers’ compensation insurance provides medical care, benefits, and wages to employees who are injured or sick due to work. Employers must carry workers’ comp for employees and keep proof on file with the CSLB.
Employers must have and pay for coverage: coverage is required once a business has employees, and the employer pays the premiums
Employees cannot be required to pay their own premiums
Certificate on file with the CSLB: a current, valid Certificate of Workers’ Compensation Insurance (or self-insurance) must always be on file
Automatic suspension: a lapse in coverage suspends the CSLB license automatically
The 90-day rule: the CSLB accepts a workers’ comp insurance certificate within 90 days of when coverage starts, and reinstates the license retroactively
Reporting employees to the carrier: each employee must be reported to the workers’ comp insurance carrier when hired
Coverage begins at the time of employment, not after an injury occurs
Written notice to employees: a written notice about workers’ comp benefits goes to new employees by the end of their first pay period
Card 01 on paper, on your phone and on your computer. Same number, same rule, same exam tip.
The same cards, questions and readiness score, on your iPhone.
Each specialty has its own unique deck of exam-pattern cards.
License Ladder carefully measures your progress as you study, so you don't waste time on what you already know, and your study time goes where it matters most. It's built on spaced repetition, a study method that's been tested and proven to produce great results.
Every card you mark and every answer you give updates your progress.
Familiar or new, right or wrong, it all counts toward your readiness score.
Cards you've mastered come back less often.
So your time goes where it counts, not on rules you already have down.
The topics you're still learning come first.
In your flashcards and in your practice tests, so every session counts.
Every step feeds one number: your readiness score. The system tracks what you already know, finds what you don't, and tells you exactly what to study next. No guessing. No re-reading things you mastered last week.
That's the difference. A book treats every page the same. License Ladder treats you as the syllabus, and adapts.
Under 2 minutes a card. Skim the whole deck in a few honest hours.
Mark each card Know It or New To Me. Your flags teach the system where to focus.
Tests that help you focus where it matters most, so every session moves you closer to green.
One honest number. When it's green, schedule your exam.
The cards, the adaptive tests, and the readiness score, with real contractors putting them to work.
We're a California company built by people who've stood on the jobsite and sat for the exam. Here's why we started, what makes us different, and who we're building this for.
License Ladder started with a simple, frustrating fact: the people who are best at the work are often stopped by the test. We watched skilled framers, plumbers, and electricians (folks who could run a job site in their sleep) get tripped up by dense legal language and trick exam wording that has nothing to do with building.
The old ways of studying made it worse. A 300-page binder that wastes your time, regardless of your experience. A classroom course built around someone else's schedule instead of yours. We knew there was a better path: simple flashcards, adaptive practice solutions, and a simple study plan that respects your valuable time.
License Ladder writes flashcards you can read in two minutes, study guides written the way you talk, and a powerful app that helps you focus where it matters most. Pass the test, get your license, and build something new that's truly yours.
Our goal is simple: help hardworking tradespeople pass on the first try and start building their own legacy. We stand behind that with a 99% pass rate guarantee: follow the plan, hit a green readiness score, and if you don't pass, you don't pay. Read the full guarantee.
The cards, the guides, and an adaptive plan built around you.
$99 is the Law & Business package on its own; the General Building (B) deck comes with the $149 bundle. Both are launch prices, going to $189 and $249 when the launch ends.