About PermitWire
PermitWire turns each city's official building permit records into a short, ranked lead list for your trade, delivered every morning by 7am.
Why PermitWire exists
Contractors win jobs by being first and being relevant. Building permits are the earliest public signal that a project is real, but each city publishes them differently, in raw form, often days late and full of noise. PermitWire turns that into one short, ranked list for your trade, in your inbox before you start your day.
Who runs it
PermitWire is run by Matt K, founder and CEO, who has a background in sales, marketing and appointment-setting for home-service businesses. Questions and feedback go straight to [email protected].
How the data works
Sources: each city's official open-data portal (Socrata, ArcGIS, CKAN or CARTO). We link the exact source on every city page.
Schedule: we pull every city every morning. Cities that publish in batches are picked up as soon as the city releases them, and a city that falls behind is automatically searched over a wider window so it never shows as empty.
Classification: each permit is tagged to trades from its description and permit type, with exclusion rules (for example, solar permits aren't counted as roofing). Site-safety permits like scaffolds and construction fences are excluded.
Scoring: a 0-100 lead score driven by declared value (log scale), weighted by trade, plus points for complete records.
No repeats: each subscriber only receives permits they haven't been sent before.
What we don't do
We don't sell homeowner phone numbers or personal data, and we don't send automated texts or calls to homeowners. We pass along what cities publish about projects and properties, and we encourage contractors to follow all solicitation laws.
Data sources
- Austin, TX: https://data.austintexas.gov/Building-and-Development/Issued-Construction-Permits/3syk-w9eu
- Chicago, IL: https://data.cityofchicago.org/Buildings/Building-Permits/ydr8-5enu
- Seattle, WA: https://data.seattle.gov/Permitting/Building-Permits/76t5-zqzr
- Philadelphia, PA: https://opendataphilly.org/datasets/licenses-and-inspections-building-and-zoning-permits/
- San Francisco, CA: https://data.sfgov.org/Housing-and-Buildings/Building-Permits/i98e-djp9
- Boston, MA: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/approved-building-permits
- New York City, NY: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Housing-Development/DOB-NOW-Build-Approved-Permits/rbx6-tga4
- Nashville, TN: https://data.nashville.gov/datasets/2576bfb2d74f418b8ba8c4538e4f729f
- Orlando, FL: https://data.cityoforlando.net/d/ryhf-m453
- New Orleans, LA: https://data.nola.gov/d/rcm3-fn58