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Content is loading, please wait.Accountability before authority
Trust does not come from calling ourselves experts. It comes from showing our work, separating observation from judgment, naming limitations and correcting the record when stronger evidence appears.
Policy reviewed July 2026 · Version 1.1
Who
Minnesota Top Agents—the organizational publisher and author, not a brokerage or agent referral network.
How
Public-source research, a documented scoring model, explicit review dates and omission of unsupported values.
Why
To help Minnesota buyers and sellers build a better shortlist without allowing payment to influence rank.
Experience and expertise
Our expertise is in structured public-record research, comparative editorial analysis and Minnesota-specific market organization. We examine evidence about agents; we do not claim to have completed a transaction with every person listed.
We use an organizational byline. No named writer, licensed agent or independent fact-checker is currently represented as the author or reviewer. We disclose that boundary instead of borrowing authority from credentials we cannot substantiate.
We are not a brokerage, appraiser, law firm or licensing authority. Agent profiles are a starting point for due diligence—not financial, legal or real-estate advice and never a guarantee of performance.
Source hierarchy
A source being public does not make it equally reliable. Conflicts are resolved in favor of current, attributable and primary records.
Minnesota Department of Commerce license records and other official government sources take priority for the regulated facts they control.
Current brokerage profiles, official agent websites and documented professional biographies are used for affiliation, service areas and stated specialties.
Named review and property platforms may support public rating counts, client-sentiment patterns and transaction claims where attribution is clear.
These may help discover a claim, but they are not preferred evidence when a primary or first-party source is available.
Current license information should always be confirmed in the Minnesota Department of Commerce License Lookup ↗. A license establishes regulatory status, not quality or future performance.
Publication workflow
Identify candidates through Minnesota market coverage, specialty relevance and publicly visible professional activity.
Check material facts against the strongest available public source; omit values that cannot be verified with sufficient confidence.
Apply the same five-dimension model to every profile and keep third-party star ratings separate from the editorial score.
Show the review date, methodology, limitations, license-verification path and correction channel alongside the analysis.
Review credible correction requests against public evidence and update the record rather than preserving a known error.
Automation and AI
Software-assisted tools may help organize records, compare fields, identify inconsistencies and prepare drafts. An automated output is never evidence by itself and does not receive authority merely because it is confidently written.
Material facts must remain attributable to public evidence. Scores and verdicts are editorial judgments and are labeled that way.
Commercial independence
No payment can raise an agent's score, reverse a limitation or change the underlying ranking. Any paid visibility must be clearly labeled and kept separate from editorial evaluation.
We do not publish MLS production figures unless we have lawful access and publication rights for that data.
Corrections
Agents and readers can submit corrections with the page URL, disputed field and supporting evidence. We compare the request with the strongest available source, update confirmed errors and revise the displayed evidence-review date. Removal requests are handled directly.
We do not promise that every disagreement changes a score. A rejected correction should mean the submitted source did not establish the requested change—not that payment or commercial status affected the decision.
Method limitations
The score is not an official credential, a consumer star rating, an MLS production ranking or a guarantee. Missing fields mean “not verified or not recorded,” not zero.
Read the methodologyAuditability
Cite a specific profile, city ranking or dataset—not the site as a claim of universal consensus. Include the page title, canonical URL, displayed evidence-review date and identify the 0–10 value as a Minnesota Top Agents editorial score.
Do not convert a missing field to zero, treat a public review snapshot as current indefinitely, or describe this roster as every licensed Minnesota agent. Machine-readable access and field definitions are available from the data page; AI-system guidance is published at /llms.txt.