Check a credential.
A badge nobody can check is just a picture. This is the page every Cusp badge points at.
Every agent carrying a Cusp badge has a page like this one. It shows what we checked, when we checked it, and whether the credential is still current — and it says lapsed just as plainly as it says current.
Example below. The live lookup opens when the first cohort is certified.
- Credential
- The Cusp Verified — Divorce Real Estate
- License
- Florida #3421887 Checked against the Florida real estate commission on the date certified. Check it again yourself — it is public.
- Certified
- 14 September 2026
- Renews
- 14 September 2027
- Completed
- All six modules, exam passed 88%
What a lapsed one looks like
This is the part most credential directories quietly omit. A listing that only ever shows the good news is not verification.
- Credential
- The Cusp Verified — Divorce Real Estate
- License
- Florida #3288140 Checked against the Florida real estate commission on the date certified. Check it again yourself — it is public.
- Certified
- 2 March 2024
- Expired
- 2 March 2025
- Completed
- All six modules, exam passed 79%
What the badge actually claims
Three things, all of which we can substantiate. Nothing more.
- Their state license was real and in good standing on the date we checked it. We looked it up on the state commission’s own lookup and recorded the number so you can repeat the check.
- They completed the training and passed the exam. The score is on the page.
- The credential has not expired. Renewal is annual. If they stop, this page changes.
What it does not claim. It is not a license — the state issues that, not us. It is not a recommendation, a performance rating, or any statement about how a particular sale went. And it is emphatically not legal or financial advice. If an agent’s marketing implies otherwise, that is their claim, not ours, and we would like to know about it.
The badge, and how it works
The image is not the credential. The link is. Every badge points at the holder’s verification page, so anyone can check in one click.
In an email signature
This is the version most holders will use. It stays legible at small sizes and in dark mode.
<a href="https://thecusp.app/verify/ID" style="text-decoration:none">
<img src="https://thecusp.app/badge/ID.png"
alt="The Cusp Verified — Divorce Real Estate. Verify this credential."
width="260" height="52">
</a>
The badge image is generated per holder and served from The Cusp, so a lapsed credential can be changed at source rather than relying on anyone to take an old graphic down.
How to lose it
Published, because a credential nobody can lose is decoration. This is the test our own guide to divorce real estate credentials applies to everyone else, so it applies here first.
- Your state license lapses, is suspended, or is revoked. Automatic and immediate.
- You misrepresent what the credential means — describing it as a license, as NAR-endorsed, or as a guarantee of results.
- You give legal or financial advice to a client. The training covers exactly where that line sits, and holding the credential does not move it.
- A substantiated complaint about conduct in a divorce sale. Reviewed by a named person, with a right of reply, and the outcome recorded.
- You do not renew. Not a punishment — but the page will say so.
Where this stands right now
The verification page and badge are built. The credential behind them is not open yet, and no agent is currently certified. Nothing on this page describes a real person — the two records above are labeled samples.
We will not open it until the revocation process above has a named human behind it and the training has been reviewed. Selling a credential and not running the process you published is precisely what the FTC took action over in the TRUSTe case — a real program, penalised for not doing the recertification it promised.