ShearQuery — Barber & Beauty Industry Data

Rank barber or cosmetology schools by real 2026 state licensing exam outcomes — written and practical pass rates, first-attempt rate, average attempts to pass, students tested, and tuition. Optionally filter to one city. This data is not published by Google, school websites, or review sites. Schools with fewer than 5 recorded test-takers are excluded because a percentage from a handful of students is not meaningful.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "license": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "barber",
        "cosmetology"
      ],
      "description": "Which exam's outcomes to rank on. Barber and Cosmetology are separate licences with separate exams; a school running both appears under both with its own results for each."
    },
    "city": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional city filter, e.g. \"Houston\". Matched case-insensitively."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "How many schools to return (1-50, default 10)."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "license"
  ]
}

Find barbershops and salons ranked by weekly booth rent, with chairs available, Google rating, review count and hiring status. Answers what a chair costs in a given city and which shops have one free. Booth rent is quoted directly by shops rather than scraped, so coverage is partial — the response states how many listings actually publish a rate.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "city": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "City to search, e.g. \"Houston\". Combine with state for accuracy."
    },
    "state": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Two-letter state code, e.g. \"TX\"."
    },
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "shop",
        "salon",
        "all"
      ],
      "description": "Barbershops, salons, or both. Default all."
    },
    "verified_rent_only": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Only listings that publish a booth rent figure. Default false."
    },
    "open_chairs_only": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Only listings with at least one chair currently available. Default false."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "How many to return (1-50, default 10)."
    }
  }
}

Count active Texas licensees from the TDLR public record by licence type, optionally limited to those whose licence expires before a given date. Answers how many people a rule change, CE requirement or fee change actually affects — the number is not published anywhere in this form.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "license_type": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional exact TDLR licence type, e.g. \"Class A Barber\", \"Cosmetology Operator\", \"Cosmetology Manicurist\", \"Cosmetology Esthetician\". Omit for a breakdown across all types."
    },
    "expiring_before": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD). Counts only licences expiring before it — use to size who is affected by a change taking effect on that date."
    }
  }
}

Score a named barbershop, salon, barber/cosmetology school or beauty supply store's public Google Business Profile and return what is missing, ranked. Compares photos, reviews, rating, hours, website and phone against other listings in the same city — the local median is computed from our own directory and is not published anywhere. Returns a coverage figure with the score because the public tier can only see part of the full audit; never present the score as a complete audit.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "business_name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The business name as it appears on Google, e.g. \"Buzzard's Barbershop\". At least two characters."
    },
    "city": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional city to narrow the match, e.g. \"Houston\"."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "business_name"
  ]
}

Look up a Texas barber, cosmetology, school or establishment licence in the state regulator's own licensee record — by licence number, or by name with an optional city. Returns the licence type, number, expiry and whether it had expired as of the data snapshot. Texas only. This reports what TDLR published on the snapshot date; it is not a live check and it does not report disciplinary action or continuing-education status.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "license_number": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The licence number, if known. Exact match. Fastest and least ambiguous."
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Person or business name, e.g. \"Smith\" or \"Baytown Beauty\". TDLR stores people as \"LAST, FIRST\"."
    },
    "city": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional city to narrow a name search."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "How many matches to return (1-25, default 10)."
    }
  }
}

Return what barbershops and salons in a city actually charge for a chair or suite — median weekly rent, the range, how many venues report a rate, how many chairs they hold, and how many are hiring. Built from rents collected per venue in the ShearQuery directory — deepest in Houston, thinner elsewhere; no public source publishes this. Omit the city to get the overall picture and the cities with the most reported rates. Cities with fewer than 5 reported rates return the count without a median, because a rate from a handful of shops is an anecdote, not a benchmark.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "city": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "City to report on, e.g. \"Houston\". Omit for the overall picture across every city we hold."
    },
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "shop",
        "salon",
        "all"
      ],
      "description": "Barbershops, salons, or both (default both)."
    },
    "examples": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "How many example venues with a published rate to list (0-15, default 5)."
    }
  }
}