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Construction Monitor is the closest thing to PermitBoards that already exists: permit leads, sold since 1989 (their blog's date) to trades and suppliers. It's a serious product with a weekly cadence and a sales organization. PermitBoards is the same raw material rebuilt for a small shop in 2026: daily, filtered to one trade, self-serve, one flat price. Facts below are from their public pages, checked 2026-11-11.
| Construction Monitor | PermitBoards | |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence | Weekly editions — “each week we release a new edition with thousands of construction leads” (their homepage) | Daily digest, every morning |
| Price (verified 2026-11-11) | Per market × per category in their shop: Alabama All Permits $187/mo, Commercial $94, Solar $31; Austin Metro All $500; Florida Central Solar $125 — one jurisdiction per subscription, multi-market via sales | $79/mo flat per county + trade, all categories in your lane; founding cohort $49/mo for life |
| Proof before paying | Complimentary sample edition by lead form; 1-week tool trial on order pages | Open permit lookup over the live database, a real sample report, and a 14-day live sample feed — no form-to-sales |
| Coverage claims | “Permits tracked nationwide,” 33M+ total permits counter; self-serve shop lists 148 market/category subscriptions | 28 live markets today, each with its real count and status printed; everything else honestly waitlist |
| Export & data | CSV/PDF weekly editions in-product; API + weekly FTP dumps, sales-quoted (no public price) | CSV attached to every paid digest, included; no API tier (yet) |
| Buying | Phone-first (their number is the header CTA); sales for multi-market or Enterprise | Self-serve on the pricing page; no sales team |
Daily and trade-filtered, $79 a month self-serve — $49 locked for the founding 50 — no annual contract, no sales call. If you need Construction Monitor's breadth, buy Construction Monitor. If you need your county's permits for your trade in your inbox every morning, that's the product on this page.
No — it's a narrower product on purpose. Construction Monitor sells breadth: more markets, more categories, more tooling. PermitBoards sells one thing done daily: the permits in your county that mean work for your trade, in your inbox, for a flat price.
far more markets live today, Powersearch across subscribed areas with a weekly archive, Top Company reports, and API/FTP data licensing. If you need permit data as a licensed feed for a platform, that's a sales conversation PermitBoards doesn't offer.
Yes — the free permit lookup searches the live database, the sample report is a real one-day report, and the 14-day sample feed is the real product. No demo call is required for any of it.
Comparison prepared 2026-11-11 from Construction Monitor's own public pages. Sources: constructionmonitor.com and shop.constructionmonitor.com (prices fetched from the shop's own listings and product JSON-LD, 2026-11-11). The often-quoted $31–$1,281/mo range is marked UNVERIFIED here: we verified the examples in the table, not every SKU.. Prices are labeled verified only where we read them on the vendor's own page that day; anything else is marked unverified. If a fact here is wrong, email us and we will fix it with the source.
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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