Type any contractor or competitor's company name and see their real permit activity — how many permits they've pulled, the cities and states they're working in, their trade mix, and their most recent jobs. Building permits are public record, and this is data only PermitGrab tracks. Free, no signup.
Every building permit is a public record. When you can see which contractors are pulling permits, where, and for what kind of work, you get a real picture of the market: who your biggest competitors are, which trades are busiest, and which neighborhoods are heating up. PermitGrab aggregates permit records from official municipal open-data feeds across 284+ U.S. cities so you can search any company by name and see their footprint — the data that used to take hours of records requests to assemble.
Every count is real, straight from PermitGrab's production permit data — not an estimate. Total permits is every matching building-permit record we hold. Last 12 months and last 90 days count permits by their filing date. Markets active in is the number of cities where we found their permits. Trade mix breaks down their permits by work type. We match on company name (partial, case-insensitive), so “ABC Roofing” will surface “ABC ROOFING LLC” too. Street addresses on recent permits are partially masked here; subscribers see the full record.
With a subscription you can track any contractor and get an alert every time they pull a new permit, plus a daily digest of every new permit filed in your city — before the work starts. Learn the method in our guide to getting contractor leads from building permits, see the lead estimator for any city, or browse every city we track.