Why we built The Permit Sheet

The Permit Sheet turns public building-permit records into real-time work intelligence for contractors — so the crews doing the work hear about a project when it's filed, not weeks later from a lead broker who sold the same name five times over.

Every day, city and county building departments publish a paper trail of what's about to get built: permit filings, inspection milestones, contractor-of-record details. That data is public, but it's scattered across dozens of incompatible city systems and effectively invisible to the people it matters most to. We pull it together, clean it up, and put it in front of contractors across 17 US cities as a feed they can actually act on — searchable, alertable, and organized by trade and geography.

We build on government records, and only government records. Our data comes from official building-permit filings, state contractor-license registries, and public assessor data. We do not buy from people-data brokers, we do not run phone lookups on individuals, and we do not resell homeowner personal information. The signal we surface is project and business data — what's being built, where, and which licensed contractors are involved — never a profile of a private person. You can read exactly where every field comes from on our data practices page.

It's built for the trades: electricians, plumbers, roofers, solar installers, GCs, and the suppliers and estimators who work alongside them — anyone whose next job depends on knowing what's getting permitted before the competition does. We're adding cities and deepening coverage in the ones we already track, with the goal that a subscriber's first week feels less like another lead list and more like finally having the county's own records working for them.

Want to talk? support@thepermitsheet.com.