Measure your own lead cost before you buy the next inquiry.
Use the price, handling time, and booked-work count from your own process. This worksheet does not estimate a platform’s conversion rate or tell you what any lead “should” cost.
What this is: a browser-only calculation using the numbers you enter. What it is not: a quote, forecast, lead score, customer request, bid opportunity, or permission to contact anyone. Your inputs are not sent to PermitGrab or retained by this page.
Enter a completed period
Use one channel, trade, and market at a time. Leave staff-time fields blank if you only want direct spend.
Use the result to separate three different jobs
- Paid inquiry channelUse it when you need a customer or business request represented by that channel. Compare the result only with your own booked work and handling cost.
- Bid or procurement toolUse it when you need published plans, specifications, solicitations, or a document workflow. Verify open scope and current status with the issuing source.
- Source-dated public-record researchUse it to review what a city or publisher has actually released in a supported market before deciding where to focus paid acquisition, territory research, or a separate bid workflow.
Check the source before you change the spend
A published record can support territory and project research only to the extent that its issuing source supplies the relevant date, location, category, and role fields. It does not establish an unsold customer, open bid, current need, or contact authorization.
Check listed markets Read the public-record vs. paid-workflow guide