Cognati Electric Inc.

Call Cognati about a dead breaker and you get Mauro, who runs the Danvers shop, or one of his guys — usually fast. A homeowner panicking over a breaker in February 2026 says they came out quickly and sorted it; another, mid-DIY with a bank of switches apart and the sun going down, got bailed out the same way; a 2023 caller with a faulty wire running out to a detached garage had Mauro there to scope it the next day. Cognati Electric works residential and commercial jobs out of Danvers — lighting, panel upgrades, EV chargers, wiring and everyday repairs. Mauro employs family, and customers name Pat and Mike as the installers who turn up. People on the North Shore come back: a small-business owner who had been through ten electricians in twenty years wrote in March 2026 that this was the first one straight with him about cost, and another has used the company across a house and a rental property for several years. The work ranges from an outlet over a fireplace mantle to a 100-amp service upgrade during a 2023 kitchen remodel. Recessed lighting comes up again and again — five rooms in one house in March 2026 — alongside a Tesla charger and undercabinet lights in 2024, a rewired basement and a generator in 2023, new smoke detectors, and four ecobee thermostats a November 2024 customer says the crew had to fight to get installed. A June 2025 client mentions the follow-up call after the job to confirm everything was working, and a 2023 customer says Mauro guaranteed his work. The one complaint about the work concerns what happens afterward. A February 2025 customer had thermostats replaced, one began malfunctioning within days and kept it up all winter, and repeated attempts to reach Mauro went nowhere. Settle up front how a callback gets handled. A separate one-star review from May 2026 is not about a job at all: it reports aggressive driving by one of the company's trucks near Storrow Drive in Boston. For lighting, panels, EV chargers and the ordinary electrical emergencies, this is a heavily reviewed North Shore shop — 4.8 across 46 Google ratings and 5.0 from 15 on Angi. Ask what the guarantee covers and how to reach them if something needs a second visit.