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Every live market is a feed the jurisdiction itself publishes — open-data portals and public registers. The 28 live feeds break down as: arcgis (12), carto (1), ckan (4), socrata (11). Where a portal's terms don't clearly permit automated access, we don't scrape it: the market stays candidate-only while permission or a public-records export is pursued (Palm Beach County is the standing example).
Each feed is normalized into the same fields — permit id, address, date, type, work description, published job value, owner and contractor names where published. Fields a city doesn't publish stay empty and are labeled “not published.” We never fill a gap with an estimate and call it data.
Permits are sorted into trade lanes primarily by the permit's own type and strong description phrases, with weaker mentions scored below the lane threshold. A permit can sit in more than one lane when its own words put it there. Classifier changes are regression-checked against real digests before they ship.
A feed is only as fresh as its publisher. Most sources publish daily; some lag — Memphis' feed trails about 12 days, Baltimore's found feed about six weeks — and each market page prints its real latest dates and status instead of a marketing claim. A market flips to LIVE only after 7 consecutive days of pulls, at least 95% of records carrying address + date, and dedupe verified.
Permit records occasionally embed personal phone numbers in free-text fields. Our site generator redacts phone patterns from everything it publishes, and an automated sweep verifies zero phone patterns on every page. Contact details a city publishes as structured fields are shown the way subscribers need them — in the email product, not scraped onto public pages beyond what the sample pages already show.
Found a record that's wrong? The underlying record belongs to the issuing city; our layer is the organization. Email us the permit id and market and we will check it against the source feed.
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