How Building-Material Suppliers and Distributors Find Newly-Active Contractors

When a contractor pulls a building permit, they are about to buy materials — lumber, wire, fixtures, roofing, HVAC equipment, fuel. For a supply house or distributor, the permit is the earliest possible signal of an active buyer. Reach them the week they file, not after they've already opened an account with your competitor.

PermitGrab tracks permits daily across roughly 1,890 U.S. municipalities — 703,000+ in the last 90 days — with the contractor named on the record and, where state licensing data allows, a phone number attached. That's a deduplicated, trade-tagged list of contractors actively pulling jobs in your delivery radius.

Who this works for

Plumbing and electrical supply houses, roofing and building-material distributors, HVAC equipment wholesalers, fuel and propane companies, and tool/equipment dealers all use the same signal: which contractors are working right now, in my market, in my trade. Filter by metro and trade, export the named businesses, and target your reps or outbound at the crews actually filing jobs — instead of blanketing a stale directory.

The freshness advantage

A contractor list bought a year ago is mostly finished projects and disconnected numbers. PermitGrab refreshes as each city publishes, so the businesses you reach are pulling permits this month. A contractor scaling up (more permits) is a contractor buying more materials — the exact account you want to win early.

Browse the live permit feed, see the supplier use case, or check pricing — flat $149/month, never resold.