Construction Permit Research Workflows

What you get

Each market page identifies its public source, newest published record, and available fields before you subscribe.

One research job per workflow, with a clear boundary on what a public permit can and cannot establish.

City-level source, newest-record, geography, and field disclosure before a market is used.

Named people, business contacts, owner fields, and project details only where the underlying source or verified public match supports them.

Source-derived project scope can organize a research queue; it never proves a purchase, bid, service request, or buyer intent.

Start with the job, then inspect the source

PermitGrab is useful when a public record can add dated context to a real research process. Select the work your team actually controls; each route starts with the city source, newest published record, and fields available in that market.

01 · TERRITORY

Supplier & distributor research

For product reps, branches, and distributors deciding where public construction activity merits account or territory research.

Published project context, not a purchase order, product list, or promised buyer.

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02 · LIFE SAFETY

Fire protection project research

For alarm, sprinkler, suppression, standpipe, and egress teams reviewing source-published life-safety context before independent project research.

Explicit scope only—not an open bid, service request, or subcontract invitation.

Explore fire/life-safety research

03 · PROPERTY

Exact-property permit monitoring

For facilities and portfolio teams watching newly published permit activity at one selected covered-city property.

An exact permit-record watch—not a condition, risk, ownership, or compliance score.

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04 · PROJECT TEAM

Project-team market research

For design-build, estimating, and business-development teams adding public project context to a market or account-research workflow.

Not plans, specifications, bidder lists, or a replacement for a plan room.

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SOURCE
FIRST

The check before you act

Open a city source or dated market pulse for the territory you serve.
Confirm the newest record, jurisdiction, published role, and fields.
Use the record as research context alongside your own account, CRM, and compliance process.

Need governed multi-market data?

Insurance, property-data, and other high-volume teams can request a human coverage review for a defined geography, fields, cadence, and permitted use. PermitGrab does not offer a public API, a blanket bulk feed, or a uniform national-coverage promise.

Simple pricing

$149/mo

Cancel anytime. No annual contract.

City-level public-source and freshness disclosures
Available permit, contractor, owner, and violation fields by market
CSV export for records available to your plan
Saved city and trade research workflows
Review coverage details before subscribing

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Frequently asked questions

A permit is a public-record research input. The right workflow depends on your job, your market, and what the relevant source actually publishes.

Which workflow should a supplier or manufacturer representative use?

Start with supplier and distributor research when the job is territory or account prioritization from published project context. Review a source-dated city sample before treating any market as useful.

Can a fire or specialty-service team use these records as open bids?

No. The fire/life-safety workflow is for research on explicit published scope. A permit does not establish an open bid, subcontract need, service request, or decision-maker intent.

What does exact-property monitoring include?

It sends permit-only alerts for newly collected records matching the same city-scoped canonical property identity. It does not assess property condition, risk, ownership, or compliance.

What if our team needs a high-volume or governed data delivery?

Request a coverage review with the geography, fields, cadence, volume, and permitted use. PermitGrab will assess actual public-source support before discussing a pilot; there is no public self-serve API or blanket data-feed promise.