Every new permit in your trade and metro, in your inbox each Monday
Permit Weekly reads the permit portals of the cities and counties in your metro, filters for the permit types that matter to your trade, and sends a clean list every week: property address, permit type and description, dates, valuation when listed, and the contractor of record. It covers jurisdictions with no open-data feed, the lists you cannot get elsewhere.
- One trade and one metro per subscription, so the list is short enough to work through on a Monday morning.
- Every row links back to the public permit record it came from; nothing is inferred or pulled from private sources.
- Competitor view: which contractors pulled the most permits in your ZIP codes over the last 90 days.
Shovels, a permit-data vendor, lists plans at $599–999 per month and names home-service providers among its target customers.
Source: shovels.aiConstruction Monitor reports tracking about 2.8 million permits a year and sells access by market and category.
Source: constructionmonitor.comPermits are the earliest public signal of a job, and the data is sold to sales teams, not tradespeople
A new pool permit means a homeowner who will need weekly service in three months. A roofing permit pulled by a competitor marks a street with aging roofs. A solar permit tells an electrician who is about to want a panel upgrade. All of it is public, and almost nobody in the trades uses it, because getting it means visiting a dozen clunky portals every week.
Data companies solved this for enterprise sales teams. Their products cost several hundred to a thousand dollars a month and lean on the big cities that already publish open data. An owner-operator with one crew cannot justify that price, and often works in the suburbs the big vendors skip.
Permit Weekly is built the other way around: one trade, one metro, one weekly list, at a price a single business can expense. We do the slow work of reading portals that have no API, and we only sell coverage we can keep current.
Without it
- Shovels, Construction Monitor and similar vendors: Shovels lists $599–999 per month; Construction Monitor sells by market and category. Both cover far more geography,…
- Checking the portals yourself: Free, and the data is public. It takes a few hours a week across a metro's jurisdictions, each with its own search…
- Lead marketplaces: Services that sell homeowner inquiries charge per lead and often sell the same lead to several contractors. Permit…
With Permit Weekly
- One trade and one metro per subscription, so the list is short enough to work through on a Monday morning.
- Every row links back to the public permit record it came from; nothing is inferred or pulled from private sources.
- Competitor view: which contractors pulled the most permits in your ZIP codes over the last 90 days.
- Trade-specific permit filters
- Coverage where there is no open data
How it works
- 1
Tell us your trade and metro
Pick a trade (pool, roofing, solar, HVAC, landscaping, or ask for another) and a metro. Within 2 business days we confirm which jurisdictions we cover there and the typical weekly volume.
- 2
We collect and filter
Our servers read each jurisdiction's permit portal on a slow, polite schedule, normalize the records, tag the permit types relevant to your trade, and remove duplicates across portals.
- 3
You get the list on Monday
An email with the week's permits and a CSV attachment, plus a dashboard where you can search, map and mark leads as contacted. Pro plans also push leads to your CRM.
- 4
Work the leads your way
Mail the homeowner, call the contractor of record about subcontract work, or plan a route through the neighborhood.
Features
Trade-specific permit filters
Permit types, descriptions and keywords mapped to each trade and tuned per jurisdiction, because every city names things differently. Add your own keywords on Pro.
Coverage where there is no open data
We prioritize cities and counties that have a portal but no API or open-data feed. Each metro's coverage list is published and updated as jurisdictions are added or drop out.
Weekly email and CSV
Monday delivery with address, permit number, type, description, status, application or issue date, valuation when listed, and contractor of record.
Contractor of record
The contractor's name and license number as shown on the permit. Useful for subcontracting, supplier sales, and knowing who you are up against.
Competitor intelligence
Permit counts by contractor over 30, 90 and 365 days within the ZIP codes you choose. See who is winning your kind of work and where.
Map and lead tracking
Permits plotted on a map by week; mark leads contacted, quoted or won so each Monday's list shows only what is new.
CRM push
Send each week's leads to your CRM through a webhook or Zapier, or to a Google Sheet, on Pro and above.
A look inside
What you see day to day: the working view and the monthly summary.
Who it's for
Pool service and pool builders
New pool permits are future weekly service accounts and equipment sales. Reach the homeowner before construction wraps up.
Roofing, solar and HVAC contractors
Permit activity shows where competitors are busy and which neighborhoods are replacing roofs and systems now. Use it for mailers, door-knocking, or finding general contractors to sub for.
Landscapers and hardscape, fence and deck pros
New construction, pool and addition permits mean yards that will need finishing. Get the address months before the lawn goes in.
Suppliers and distributors
The contractor of record on hundreds of permits a month is your prospect list. See who is pulling volume and who is new to the market.
Works with
- Email (weekly digest with CSV attached)
- CSV download with stable columns
- Google Sheets sync
- Webhook and Zapier (HubSpot, Pipedrive, Jobber and others)
- Map view with KML export for Google My Maps
- Links to the source permit record in each jurisdiction's portal
Pricing
Prices are per trade and metro, billed monthly, cancel any time. Founding customer pricing is locked for 24 months for subscriptions opened during early access. All plans include the weekly email, CSV, source links and the dashboard.
Starter
$49 per month
One trade, one metro, worked from email
- 1 trade, 1 metro
- Weekly email and CSV
- Address, permit type, description, dates and valuation
- Contractor of record
- Dashboard search and map
- Email support
Pro
$99 per month
Businesses that work leads in a CRM and want the competitor view
- Everything in Starter
- Competitor intelligence by ZIP and period
- Lead tracking (contacted, quoted, won)
- CRM push via webhook, Zapier or Google Sheets
- Custom keywords and permit types
- Twice-weekly delivery option
- 3 users
Multi
$199 per month
Companies covering several metros or trades, and suppliers
- Up to 3 trade-metro pairs (more at $49 each)
- Everything in Pro
- Contractor roll-up across all pairs
- Daily delivery option
- Historical back-fill of up to 12 months where available
- Priority support
Compared with the alternatives
- Shovels, Construction Monitor and similar vendors
- Shovels lists $599–999 per month; Construction Monitor sells by market and category. Both cover far more geography, with analytics for sales teams. If you have salespeople covering several states, they are the right tool. Permit Weekly covers one trade and metro at a price for one business.
- Checking the portals yourself
- Free, and the data is public. It takes a few hours a week across a metro's jurisdictions, each with its own search form, and it stops happening when you get busy. We do the same thing on a schedule.
- Lead marketplaces
- Services that sell homeowner inquiries charge per lead and often sell the same lead to several contractors. Permit leads come from public records at a fixed monthly fee; the advantage goes to whoever acts first.
What changed
- Shovels, a permit-data vendor, lists plans at $599–999 per month and names home-service providers among its target customers. Source: shovels.ai
- Construction Monitor reports tracking about 2.8 million permits a year and sells access by market and category. Source: constructionmonitor.com
- Ready-made permit scrapers on Apify have only a handful of users and mostly cover cities that already publish open data. Source: apify.com
Your first week
We confirm coverage and deliver your first list within 2 business days of your request.
- Day 1: Request your trade and metro. We send the coverage list and the typical weekly volume.
- Day 2–3: Your first list arrives with the current week's permits; we review the filters with you and adjust keywords.
- Day 4–5: Connect your CRM or Google Sheet (Pro); mark your first leads as contacted.
- Day 7: Regular Monday delivery begins. We check whether the volume and permit types fit your business.
Security and data
- Lead data lives on servers we operate in the United States, encrypted in transit and at rest.
- We store only public-record fields; we do not buy or append personal data about homeowners.
- Lead notes and CRM credentials for pushes are encrypted and visible only to your account's users.
- On cancellation your account data is deleted within 90 days, or sooner on request; the CSVs you downloaded remain yours.
Questions
Which metros and trades do you cover?
Coverage is built per metro and the jurisdiction list for each is published. Ask for yours: within 2 business days we tell you whether we cover it now and, if not, how long adding it would take. We only sell a metro once coverage is live.
Is this legal? Isn't it scraping?
Permit records are public records published by governments. We read public portals on a slow, rate-limited schedule from our own servers, respect robots directives and portal terms, and skip jurisdictions whose terms prohibit automated access. We do not bypass logins or CAPTCHAs.
Do you include homeowner names, phone numbers or emails?
We provide what the public permit record shows, typically the property address, permit details and the contractor of record. We do not append homeowner phone numbers or emails. If you contact homeowners, you are responsible for complying with Do-Not-Call, TCPA, CAN-SPAM and local solicitation rules; Permit Weekly is a data service, not legal advice.
How current is the data?
Most jurisdictions are read daily and the list is compiled on Sunday night. The portals themselves lag issuance by anywhere from a day to a few weeks, and we show the date the jurisdiction posted each record.
What happens if a portal changes or blocks access?
It happens. We monitor every source and usually restore it within days. If a jurisdiction is down for more than two weeks or permanently blocks automated access, we tell you and credit the proportional share of your fee.
Can I get more than one trade or metro, or historical permits?
Yes. The Multi plan covers up to three trade-metro pairs, with more at $49 each, and includes a back-fill of up to 12 months where the portal allows it. Suppliers often take one metro across several trades.
Isn't this easy to copy?
The data is public, so yes, someone else can do it. What is hard is keeping dozens of fragile portals current, normalizing each city's categories to a trade, and doing it for a price one business can pay. That is the work we are committing to.
Ready when you are
Tell us about your setup. We confirm by email and get you running within 2 business days.
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