The owner has to tell the city what they're building before work starts. We read that record every day, filter it to your trade and your price range, and put it on one page you can open in the truck.
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That record is public — and buried in a database nobody can use, in a different format in every city. $99/mo for your trade in your city, or $299 to close it so nobody else in your trade can buy it.
This is real data from official city permit records — not a mockup. Pick your city and your trade: this preview runs the same query your paid feed would, so what you see here is what you would be buying.
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This is the honest part, and we'd rather you read it now than find out after you've paid.
We don't sell homeowner phone numbers. Not because we can't find them — because a permit is a public record about a property, not a person who asked to be called, and we're not going to be the reason you end up answering a Do Not Call complaint. Nothing you buy here can put you there.
What you get is the address, the work, the date it was authorised, and the budget the owner declared to the city. Four things work, roughly in this order:
You are the only person in your trade who knows this job exists. Nobody has called them. That advantage is real and it lasts about two weeks.
The address is the mailing address. A first-class letter is 73 cents and it gets opened, because it's about their house and it names their project. Forty letters is $29.
Where the city names the contractor who pulled the permit, we give you the company — and where their licensing board publishes it, the business line. For a sub that's the whole game: a B2B call about a job already funded and not yet staffed.
Fifty addresses in one part of town is a route, not a list. Run it on a Saturday morning.
The arithmetic. This runs $99 a month — $1,188 for a year. The preview above is filtered to jobs of $25,000 and up by default, and that is the same filter your paid feed runs. If a month goes by and the list hasn't earned that, you cancel it yourself in two clicks, no call and no notice period. Compare that to buying leads one at a time, where you pay per lead, several contractors bought the same one, and there is nothing to cancel because you already paid.
A permit is a buying signal, not a phone call you paid for — which is why a whole city costs less than a handful of clicks on Google. A search lead is resold to every contractor bidding on it. Here, $99 buys the list for your trade in your metro, and $299 takes that metro off the market entirely.
You can see the volume before you buy. The number on the availability check is the feed itself, counted — not an estimate, not a projection. We measure it before we let anyone buy a territory, and we refuse the sale outright when a city and trade are too thin to be worth the money.
Who's behind this. I'm Alexander. I built Permit Verdict, I run it, and I answer that email address myself. The company is new — you would be one of the first contractors on it — and I would rather tell you that here than have you look it up and wonder what else I left out. If you would rather ask a person than click a button, write to support@permitverdict.com — it reaches me, not a ticket queue.
Pick your metro and your trade. $99 gets you the full list for that metro and trade — and other contractors in your trade can buy the same list. $299 closes it: while you hold it, we stop selling that metro and trade to anyone else.
What you get: a private link to every new permit in your metro, filtered to your trade, with the declared job value and the work described — read live from the city’s own records every time you open it. You set the budget band on the link itself, and change it whenever your appetite changes. Where the city names the contractor who pulled the permit and their licensing board publishes a business number, you get that too. What you never get from us is a homeowner’s phone number — these are owners who just committed to a project, not people who filled in a "get quotes" form. That's the trade-off, and it's why the list is worth working rather than waiting on.
All data comes from official municipal open-data portals and is public record (public domain / PDDL). We report property activity only — permit type, declared value, dates, status, and the work described. We do not sell, compile, or expose personal information about occupants or owners.
No analytics, no advertising trackers, no cross-site tracking. The one cookie we set is on your paid feed page after you subscribe, so you can find your way back to it — details in the privacy policy. Questions or removal requests: support@permitverdict.com.