Permit lead services compared (2026): construction permit leads from 17 US providers
Every service here sells construction permit leads in some form: records as the city published them, a database to search, or a feed to work. FieldClients is a feed too, with each record matched to the account behind the building. They differ on what you actually receive, whether everyone else receives it too, how it arrives, and whether a person you can call comes attached. Facts are as published on each vendor's site on the date above.
Construction permit leads are sold by 17 US services, from zip-code permit feeds for residential trades to national databases and sales software for commercial teams. FieldClients is a self-serve feed by market: each record is matched to the business account behind the building, and one credit reveals the verified decision-maker with a dated reason to call. The tables compare what each one gives you, where, how it arrives, and who you can call.
- Commercial and residential vendors in separate tables
- Every published price listed
- Checked 5 November 2026
FieldClients in one paragraph
FieldClients is a self-serve feed of public-record signals for one market or several. A market is a county or metro, any size. We read building permits, code violations and new business licences every day, plus registrations and certificates of occupancy where the market publishes them, and match each record to the business account behind the building. You filter the feed to your trade and browse it without limit. One credit reveals the decision-maker and a dated reason to call, and you export what you reveal to CSV. Verified decision-maker email on every reveal. Company phone where listed. Self-serve from $99 a month (1 market, 100 deep reveals). Growth $249, Pro $499. Month to month, no setup fee. 14 days of the full feed, free. Reveals start when you subscribe. Self-serve plans open in about 10 days; until then, Start free trial joins the waitlist.
Construction permit leads for commercial sales teams
| Service | What you get | Signals | Coverage | Contact on the lead | Generic feed? | Delivery | Entry price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FieldClients Commercial and multifamily accounts. Homeowner jobs are a poor fit | A self-serve feed of public-record signals by market. Each record is matched to the account that awards the work. One credit reveals the decision-maker and a dated reason to call | Building permits, code violations, new business licences; registrations and certificates of occupancy where published | United States, by county or metro | Verified decision-maker email on every reveal. Company phone where listed. | Yes. One feed per market, which you filter to your trade | In the feed: browse, reveal, export to CSV | Self-serve from $99 a month (1 market, 100 deep reveals). Growth $249, Pro $499. Month to month, no setup fee. |
| PermitVector Adjacent-trade prospecting in its five states | Daily email of 25 best-fit permits plus CSV, dashboard and API | Building permits by trade | 31 markets in TX, CO, FL, AZ, CA | Contractor phone and site from public records; permits as published | Yes. Every subscriber in a market sees the same permits | Daily email, CSV, dashboard, API | $19.99 a month for one county, $9.99 for each extra county; 14-day trial, card required |
| LeadMatch Data teams and list builders | Records and owner contacts from permits, COs, deeds, violations and complaints | Permits, certificates of occupancy, deeds, violations | 10 metros incl. NYC, Austin, SF, Philadelphia, Seattle | Contact, email, phone per record | Yes | Exports | 300 free records, then $2.99 per 1,000; subscriptions from $299 a month |
| BuildIntel Selling into builders and GCs | New building permits tracked by project stage with builder and contractor history | New construction permits | 117 municipalities in the US and Canada | Developer, architect, builder and contractor contacts | Not stated | Email or portal | Not confirmed: site could not be reached on 5 November 2026 |
| ContraX Analytics Multi-territory market intelligence | Permit analytics: scored leads, hot-market heatmaps, competitor rankings | Building permits, 64+ jurisdictions | 64+ jurisdictions | Property addresses and valuations; contractor identification | Yes | Email or portal | Free (1 jurisdiction); AI Starter $25 a month (2 to 3); Pro $249 a month (up to 8) |
| Shovels Manufacturers, distributors, enterprise sales | National permit, contractor and property database with API credits | Building permits, nationwide | United States | Contractor and resident datasets on paid plans | Yes | API, CSV, dashboard | Free (500 credits a month); Basic $599 a month (25,000 credits); Pro $999 (50,000) |
| Construction Monitor Suppliers and manufacturers | National permit database with owner and contractor details, API and FTP | Building, solar and pool permits | United States, nationwide | Owner and contractor contact information | Yes | Portal, API, FTP | $31 to $1,281 a month per market per permit category; all-permit single market $62 to $1,250 |
| Convex Sales teams of three or more | Property-intelligence software for commercial trades (part of ServiceTitan) | Property data, decision-makers, trigger events | United States | In the tool, for your SDRs to work | Yes | In the tool; Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive integrations | No public price; demo only |
| Dodge / ConstructConnect Subcontractors bidding commercial projects | Commercial construction project and bid intelligence | Project starts, bids, plans and specs | United States | Project stakeholders | Yes | Portal and exports | Dodge: no public price, demo and quote. ConstructConnect: Starter $129 a month, one market; Professional from $199 a month, annual |
| PermitStack Developers and data teams | Permit data API and published pricing comparisons; feeds by jurisdiction | Building permits | US jurisdictions it has ingested | Permit records as published | Yes | API | Free tier, then $29 to $499 a month, metered by API requests |
FieldClients self-serve at a glance
| Comparison criteria | FieldClients self-serve |
|---|---|
| Self-serve signup | yes, 14-day trial of the feed |
| Entry price | $99/mo |
| What is metered | deep reveals (100 to 750/mo); feed unlimited |
| Geography unit | county or metro, any size |
| Contact on the record | verified decision-maker email on every reveal; company phone where listed |
| Reason to call | yes, dated, on every reveal |
Permit feeds for residential trades, by zip code
| Service | What you get | Signals | Coverage | Contact on the lead | Generic feed? | Delivery | Entry price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GotSignals Restoration and residential trades in covered metros | Property events with a monthly quota of lead reveals | Building permits, code violations, fire incidents | 23 US metros | Property-level; 10 to 50 reveals a month | Yes | Email or portal | $99, $199 or $399 a month, with 10, 25 or 50 reveals; 3-day trial, card required |
| RoofIntent Residential roofing, tuckpointing and solar; $149 or $299 a month | Daily permit alerts by neighbourhood with skip-traced homeowner phone numbers and AI call scripts | Building permits | By neighbourhood and trade | Homeowner name and skip-traced phone | No, one contractor per neighbourhood and trade | Email or portal | $149 a month for 1 neighbourhood and 1 trade, $299 for 3; 7-day trial, no card required |
| TurfClaim Residential trades; $79, $129 or $197 a month per zip | Daily permit leads by zip code: remodels, additions, roofs, new construction | Building permits | By zip code | Homeowner name and available contact information | Yes, to a limited number of contractors per trade per zip | Email or portal | $79, $129 or $197 a month per zip, set by the zip's demand |
| PingPermit Teams that want a scored feed or an API | Scored permit lead feed by trade, plus one-off address reports | Building permits | 19 jurisdictions | Contractor and owner names where the city publishes them | Yes | Feed and API | $15 a month |
| PermitGrab Contractors who understand they are buying records | Permit, contractor, owner and violation records organised by city with source dates | Building permits, code violations where published | Miami-Dade, LA, NYC, Chicago, Austin and others | Contractor phone and site; owner in supported markets | Yes | Email or portal | One plan, Pro, $149 a month; 14-day trial, card required |
| PermitRadar Investors and teams monitoring addresses | Permit map, search and address alerts; contractor lead generation on the Business plan | Building permits, AI-classified | 393+ US cities | Property reports; no decision-maker contact | Yes | Email or portal | Not confirmed: site could not be reached on 5 November 2026 |
| Limen New England trades | Permit dashboard with alerts and exports | Residential and commercial permits | 108+ cities in CT, MA, NH, RI | Permit records as published | Yes | Email or portal | Free tier; Pro $99 a month; Unlimited $599 a month |
Not in the tables: Zabalist, Texas only. Research plans per seat are Free, $19, $39 and $99 a month. Opportunities start at $49 a month. API plans are $49, $149 and $399 a month by call volume.
Vendor facts are quoted from each vendor's public site on 5 November 2026. If something here is out of date, email get@fieldclients.com and we will correct it.
Choose a permit data service if…
- You have someone whose job is to work a daily list
- You sell to homeowners and want volume by ZIP code
- You want the raw records in your own CRM or API
Choose FieldClients if…
- You sell to management companies, owners and operators
- You want the decision-maker verified before you call
- You want to browse the whole feed and spend credits only on records worth a call
Permit lead services: questions
What is the difference between permit data and a permit lead?
Permit data is the record as the city published it: an address, a work type, a value, a filing contractor. A permit lead adds who to call. Most services on this page sell the data, sometimes with a homeowner name attached. FieldClients matches the record to the business account behind the building, and a reveal returns the verified decision-maker with a dated reason to call.
Is a building permit an early or a late signal?
Late for the trade named on the permit, because that contractor is usually already hired. Early for every adjacent trade and for the account itself: a new-building permit means a fire plan, an electrical scope, a security system and a cleaning contract are all still open. That is why FieldClients matches the record to the owner or manager rather than the filing contractor.
Which services match the record to the account behind it?
FieldClients matches every record in its feed to the business account behind the building and tags it by trade, so you filter to the work you do. The other services on the page publish records as the city filed them, in a feed you filter or a database you search. RoofIntent and TurfClaim limit how many contractors per zip receive them, but the records are still the same permits. Subscribers to one FieldClients market see the same feed too. What differs is the match to the account and the decision-maker on each reveal.
Do any of these cover the UK?
Only FieldClients works in the United Kingdom as well as the US. Its self-serve plans are US only. BuildIntel covers Canadian municipalities. Everyone else is US-only as of the date on this page; the UK equivalents are compared on their own page.
Which permit lead services integrate with a CRM?
Convex pushes into Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive from inside ServiceTitan. Shovels and Construction Monitor expose an API you integrate yourself. FieldClients exports every reveal to CSV on every plan, ready to import into the CRM you use.
Which services work for a sales team across many cities?
Shovels, Construction Monitor, Dodge, ConstructConnect and Convex cover the whole United States in one product. FieldClients Pro covers up to 10 markets, or one whole state, on one plan, month to month. Teams that want the leads delivered across a larger footprint use the managed service. The zip-code feeds are built for one territory at a time.
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