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PermitGrab

Daily building permit leads for contractors. Every permit filed in 800+ US cities with the contractor name, trade, project value, and phone number attached.

PermitGrab turns public building-permit records into a daily lead list for contractors.

Every construction permit filed across 800+ US cities is collected each morning, cleaned, deduplicated, and delivered as a ranked email digest. Each lead carries the property address, the trade, the declared project value, the permit status, and the contractor or owner of record - with a phone number attached wherever one can be matched.

What's in the feed

  • Permits - every filing, ranked so the callable ones surface first, with a ready-to-send pitch and a CRM-ready CSV export
  • Code violations - open enforcement cases tied to a property and owner, which usually mean repair work and motivated sellers
  • Property-owner contacts - owner name, mailing address, and phone where available, so a permit is not just an address
  • Contractor activity - who is pulling permits in your market, which trades, and how their volume is trending

Who it is for

Roofers, HVAC and plumbing contractors, electricians, general contractors, remodelers, restoration companies, solar installers, and building-material suppliers - anyone whose next job is already on file at the county.

How it works

Pick your cities. Every morning you get one email with that day's filings, ranked. Open the city page for the live feed, filter by trade or project value, and export what you want. No lead credits, no bidding against seven other contractors for the same homeowner.

Coverage and sourcing

Data comes from official municipal and county open-data sources - ArcGIS, Socrata, CKAN, Accela, and Tyler EnerGov portals - refreshed daily. Coverage varies by city because it depends on what each jurisdiction publishes; every city page states what it has.

Pricing

$149/month flat. 14-day trial. Cancel anytime. No per-lead fees, no contracts, and leads are not resold to your competitors.

A startup from BELLA VISTA, the United States that is founded by Wes Crainshaw.

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Pricing:
  • Paid
  • Free Trial
  • $149.0 / Monthly (Flat rate, all cities, unlimited leads)
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PermitGrab Reviews and Details

This page is designed to help you find out whether PermitGrab is good and if it is the right choice for you.

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Features & Specs

  1. Daily permit digest

    One ranked email each morning with the dayโ€™s new filings for your cities

  2. Coverage

    800+ US cities across all 50 states, refreshed daily

  3. Data sources

    Official municipal and county open data (ArcGIS, Socrata, CKAN, Accela, Tyler EnerGov)

  4. Contractor contacts

    Business name and phone number attached where a match exists

  5. Code violations

    Open enforcement cases tied to property and owner

  6. Property-owner records

    Owner name, mailing address and phone where available

  7. Filtering

    By city, trade, project value, permit type and date

  8. CSV export

    CRM-ready export of any filtered view

  9. Lead exclusivity

    Not resold โ€” no bidding against other contractors for the same job

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Questions & Answers

As answered by people managing PermitGrab.

  1. What's the story behind PermitGrab?

    Building permits are public record everywhere in the United States. Anyone can go and read them. In practice almost nobody does, because there is no such thing as 'the permit database' - there are hundreds of separate municipal and county systems, each on different software, each with a different schema, and most with no way to ask the only question a contractor actually cares about: what is new since yesterday?

    So the information sits there, free and public, and the contractor who could use it finds out about the job weeks later, if at all.

    PermitGrab exists to close that gap. The hard part was never getting a permit record. It was doing it every day, across hundreds of jurisdictions that change their endpoints without warning, and turning inconsistent municipal records into something a roofer can act on before breakfast.

  2. What makes PermitGrab unique?

    PermitGrab combines three public records that are normally sold separately, or not sold at all: building permits, code-enforcement violations, and property-owner contacts. Most permit tools stop at the permit. Pairing a filing with the violation history on that property and the owner of record is what turns an address into a conversation.

    The other difference is the delivery model. It is one ranked email each morning rather than a dashboard you have to remember to check, and it is a flat monthly rate rather than per-lead pricing. Leads are not resold, so you are not calling a homeowner who just heard from seven other contractors.

  3. Why should a person choose PermitGrab over its competitors?

    It depends what you are comparing against.

    Against lead-generation marketplaces such as Thumbtack, HomeAdvisor or Angi: those sell you a shared lead that several contractors receive at once, priced per lead. PermitGrab is a flat monthly rate and the records are not resold, because they are public filings rather than a homeowner form submission. You are reaching out first instead of competing on response time.

    Against construction data platforms such as BuildZoom, Shovels or ConstructConnect: those are generally built for enterprise research, analytics or commercial project intelligence, and are priced accordingly. PermitGrab is aimed at the individual contractor who wants to know what got filed in their city this morning, and it adds code violations and property-owner contacts alongside the permit rather than the permit alone.

    Against checking the county portal yourself: the data is genuinely free and public. The work is that it is spread across hundreds of separate municipal systems with different formats, and none of them tell you what changed today.

  4. How would you describe the primary audience of PermitGrab?

    Small and mid-sized contractors who sell into residential and light commercial work, and who do their own prospecting.

    The clearest fits are roofing, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, general contracting, remodeling, restoration, solar, fencing, concrete and landscaping. A new-construction permit means every one of those trades has work coming. A re-roof permit means a solar installer has a fresh roof to quote.

    It also works for building-material suppliers and manufacturer reps who want to know which builders are active in a territory, and for investors and agents who use code-enforcement records to find owners with a reason to sell.

    It is a poor fit for anyone who needs national enterprise coverage with an SLA, or who wants commercial project intelligence at the pre-bid stage. That is a different product category.

  5. Which are the primary technologies used for building PermitGrab?

    • Python and Flask for the application and the collection daemons
    • PostgreSQL for the permit, violation, contractor and property-owner records
    • Render for hosting, split across a web service and a background worker
    • Stripe for billing and Resend for the daily digest delivery

    On the ingestion side the work is mostly adapters rather than a single framework. Municipal data arrives through ArcGIS FeatureServer and MapServer endpoints, Socrata, CKAN, Accela ACA portals, Tyler EnerGov self-service, OpenGov and a handful of one-off formats, so each source gets its own field mapping and freshness check.

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