Search
Filter the national permit feed by work class, valuation, jurisdiction, and date. Search and browse are free — a lookup is only spent when you open a full record.
Solutions
One permit dataset, every team that builds on it
Builders Monitor normalizes permits, contractors, and inspections from thousands of municipal portals into a single schema. Below are the workflows teams run on it — each one on the same live data behind our coverage page.
- Building products
- Suppliers & distributors
- Lenders & credit
- Insurers & underwriters
- Investors & analysts
- Developers & site selection
Detailed solutions
Six workflows, in depth
Each is a representative workflow — illustrative, not a named-customer case study — showing the data, the product steps, and the outcome.
Sales · Building products
Reaching the contractor the day the permit issues
A building-products sales team trades stale directory lists for a fresh, deduplicated feed of contractors the moment a relevant permit is pulled.
- Same-weekOutreach from permit issuance
- 1 recordPer contractor, deduplicated across jurisdictions
- Work classTargeting by trade and valuation band
Development · Site selection
Spotting where construction accelerates first
A development and site-selection team reads permit velocity at the place, county, and state level to find markets gaining momentum before the reports catch up.
- Place → stateConsistent rollups on one schema
- QoQVelocity by market and project type
- EarlySignal ahead of completion-based reports
Underwriting · Insurance
Catching unpermitted and high-risk work before it becomes a claim
A property underwriting team joins permit and inspection history to the address to flag missing finals, expired permits, and scope-versus-valuation mismatches.
- Full historyPermits + inspections per property
- FlagMissing finals and expired permits
- Scope checkValuation-vs-work mismatches
Lending · Construction credit
Verifying project activity against the public record
A construction lender confirms that reported progress is backed by issued permits moving through inspection — adding an independent signal to draw schedules.
- IndependentVerification of reported progress
- Issued → finalStatus on every permit on the project
- Per drawExecution signal for the schedule
Research · Investment & strategy
Reading demand before it reaches the reports
An investment-research team treats construction activity as a forward-looking indicator, tracking development velocity by sector and geography on a standardized feed.
- Forward-lookingActivity ahead of lagging indices
- Sector × geoStandardized development velocity
- ThousandsOf portals normalized to one feed
Suppliers · Distribution & territory
Aligning inventory and territory with real-world demand
A supplier plans stock, logistics, and territory coverage around where permits are actually pulling — and staffs emerging markets before competitors notice them.
- Live signalPermit demand by market and work class
- AheadOf competitors into emerging markets
- TerritoryCoverage matched to real activity
The product behind it
Every workflow runs on the same four surfaces
Search and browse are free. You only spend a lookup when you open a full record — so exploring the dataset costs nothing.
Map
See permit density and valuation by place and county. Watch where activity is concentrating and how the hot zones shift quarter over quarter.
Contractor profiles
Every permit resolves to one canonical contractor — deduplicated across jurisdictions, with license number, published contacts, and permit history.
Exports & API
Push deduplicated lists, rollups, and address-level history into your CRM, model, or servicing system. Re-run and only the net-new rows come through.
Put the dataset to work
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