Contractors read permit filings one at a time and miss the ones that matter. BidWitness reads every filing in your metro, finds the jobs where your trade slot is still empty, and emails you the shortlist every Monday.
Get this week's brief freePermit data has been for sale for twenty years. It's sold as raw records — thousands of rows a week, and the contractor is left to read them. That's not a lead list, that's homework.
| What you get | Typical permit feed | BidWitness |
|---|---|---|
| Raw permit records | Yes — 2,000+ rows/week | Yes, but pre-filtered |
| Filtered to your trade | No | Yes |
| Filtered to your value floor | No | Yes |
| Knows if your trade is already assigned | No | Yes — the core of it |
| Names the general contractor to call | Buried in the row | Front and centre |
| Price | $20–$599/mo | $299/mo |
1331 S WELLS ST is a $94,000,000 job.
The filing names the owner, the architect, the expeditor, the general contractor
and the mason. It does not name an electrician, a plumber, a roofer, a carpenter,
an HVAC contractor or an excavator.
Three steps. You only see step three.
The city publishes permits daily. We pull all of them, every day, across every covered metro — new construction, alterations, demolitions.
Each filing lists the trades already attached. We compare that against the trades a job of that type needs, and flag the ones nobody has claimed.
Monday morning: the jobs in your city, in your trade, above your floor — scored by size, freshness and how many trades are still open.
Priced against the job, not against other software. One foundation job pays for a decade.
Yes — and that's the point. Every permit is public. What isn't public is the answer to "which of these 2,600 filings this week has my trade slot still open." That answer is the product. You're paying for the reading, not the records.
Then we filter those out, which is the entire value. You only receive jobs where your trade is genuinely absent from the filing. If a market turns out to have no open slots, we tell you before you pay — and don't take the subscription.
City feeds publish daily. The Monday brief covers filings from the previous seven days, with anything older clearly dated so you know what you're walking into.
First brief is free. After that, cancel any time and the current month is refunded if you tell us within seven days that the leads weren't relevant.
No. One trade, one metro, one subscriber. If a slot is taken, the listing closes.
Tell us your city and your trade. The first brief arrives Monday. If it isn't worth $299, you'll know in one read.
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