Traditional Pest Control vs. Fertility Management
Your exterminator is doing their job.
The rats keep coming back anyway.
Standard treatment removes the rats that are there. It has no way to reduce how fast new ones fill the space after each visit. That's not a vendor problem. It's a missing layer — and the 90-day program adds it on top of whatever you already have.
Start the 90-day programWhat traditional pest control does well
It clears the active colony and produces the compliance record.
A licensed exterminator brings the training, products, and inspection documentation to clear an active infestation. They find entry points, assess travel paths, treat the active colony, and leave a paper trail. For a restaurant, property manager, or building owner, that documentation is the first line of compliance.
Traditional pest control isn't broken. For isolated or newer infestations, it produces consistent control. The limitation shows up in dense urban areas where new rats from the surrounding block continuously fill back in after treatment.
Licensed and insured
Exterminators carry the licensing, chemical certifications, and liability insurance required for commercial treatment.
Compliance documentation
Treatment records from a licensed exterminator satisfy health department requirements and provide the paper trail inspectors recognize.
Entry point assessment
Experienced technicians find structural gaps and entry points that building owners miss.
Works with your existing vendor
Most properties already have an exterminator. The 90-day program is designed to run alongside them, not replace them.
The gap standard treatment leaves
Treatment removes the colony. Nothing slows down the replacement.
When treatment clears a colony, it opens up the territory. The scent markers that kept other rats away fade within days. Rats from the same block detect the vacancy and start moving in. The same food source, the same building, the same block pressure. The new group arrives within four to eight weeks.
This is not the exterminator's fault. The industry standard is treatment on a scheduled visit cycle. That schedule exists because the biology produces a predictable cycle. Monthly visits aligned with a four to six week replacement timeline keep the problem managed. They don't reduce it.
Exterminator treats the active colony. Documentation issued. Clean site.
Territory sits empty. Surrounding rats start detecting the vacancy.
New group moves in. Breeding starts at full rate.
Colony re-established. Population rebuilding toward baseline.
Exterminator returns. Removes the replacement colony. Resets.
How they work together
Your exterminator stays. We add what their treatment can't do.
Cloakd doesn't replace your pest control vendor. Phase 1 of the program is your existing exterminator doing what they already do. Phase 2 adds Evolve fertility management on top — reducing how fast the replacement colony forms after each treatment.
Reduced reproduction rate between treatment visits
Population that declines instead of cycling
90-day documented activity decline
Active management record for inspectors
No change to your existing vendor or contract
Your existing pest control vendor and contract
Treatment schedule and visit frequency
Compliance documentation from your licensed exterminator
Entry point assessment and structural recommendations
Your vendor relationship and pricing
Field data
79%
reduction in rodent track presence
Location A — 5-month urban field study, Aug 2025 to Jan 2026
88%
drop in track density at the same site
Tracks per monitoring plate declined even where rodents were still present
90%
fertility reduction potential
When Evolve runs alongside an active pest control program
NYC began deploying ContraPest in designated rat mitigation zones in April 2025. Baltimore adopted Evolve for citywide pest management the same year. It works at the building level for the same reason it works at city scale.
Your exterminator keeps their contract.
Tell us about your property and who handles pest control now. We'll coordinate Phase 1 with your existing vendor and run the fertility management layer for 90 days.