Cities publish every permit they issue. Almost nobody reads them in time to win the work. PermitBoards reads them daily, keeps only the permits that mean work for your trade, and emails them to you before the job gets shopped around.
Every day we pull the building permits that cities and counties publish — thousands of filings most contractors never see until the work is already awarded.
A roofer in Austin doesn't need Boston plumbing permits. You pick one county and one trade; everything else is filtered out before it reaches your inbox.
Each alert carries the address, what the job is, the published job value, and the owner or contractor named on the permit where the city publishes it. One won job pays for years of this.
These counts are generated from our permit database — the same records subscribers get. Not your market? Check the coverage map and join the waitlist; demand decides what gets built next.
We also track 3,257 other / general permits in the same feeds — pick that lane on the signup form if your work doesn't sort into one trade.
Compare the going rate for permit and project data: enterprise services charge $129–$199 a month per market on annual contracts. PermitBoards is built for small shops: one county, one trade, flat price — and right now the founding cohort locks $49/mo for life.
One email every morning with the building permits filed in your county that match your trade — and only those. Each permit shows the address, what the job is, the published job value, and the owner or contractor named on the permit where the city publishes it.
28 markets are live today: Austin, TX, Fort Worth, TX, Philadelphia, PA, Columbus, OH, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, CA, San Antonio, TX, Chicago, IL, Minneapolis, MN, New York City, NY, Memphis, TN, New Orleans, LA, San Jose, CA, San Francisco, CA, Virginia Beach, VA, Norfolk, VA, Boston, MA, Pittsburgh, PA, Nashville, TN, Maricopa County, AZ, Detroit, MI, Seattle, WA, Las Vegas, NV, Cincinnati, OH, Raleigh, NC, Mesa, AZ, Baton Rouge, LA, Charlotte, NC. Every other market on our coverage map is marked building or waitlist — we show the real status instead of pretending.
$79 a month for one county and one trade — and the first 50 shops lock $49 a month for life as the founding cohort. You start with a free 14-day sample feed of real permits, no card required, and pay only if the sample shows you work worth chasing. It's month-to-month — no annual contract.
From the public permit records that cities and counties publish themselves. We read those feeds on their publishing schedules, put every permit into one format, and sort them by county and trade.
We pull each city's feed on the schedule the city publishes. Most feeds are daily; a few cities publish on their own schedule or lag, and each coverage page prints that market's real feed status and latest permit dates instead of claiming otherwise.
Join the waitlist on the signup page. Counties with the most demand get built first, and your free sample feed starts the day your county goes live.
Yes — a subscription covers one county and one trade; add counties or trades as extra feeds on the same account. Tell us on the signup form and we'll set it up.
Start the paid plan when you're ready — $79 a month for one county and one trade, month-to-month, no sales call. Or start with a free 14-day sample feed: the real daily email, built from live permit records. If it doesn't show you work worth chasing, don't pay for it.
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