We turn public permit records into the day's first buying signal.

Why it exists

Most contractor lead products sell the same form-fill to five or six competitors at once, and by the time you call, the homeowner has already fielded a stack of pitches. A building permit is the opposite of that. It is a public record, filed before the next trade has been hired, and almost nobody is working it as a daily signal. A new roof is a solar and insulation opportunity. A new-construction permit means HVAC, electrical, fencing, and a pool are all coming. We built PermitVector to surface that adjacency the day it files, so a small contractor can reach a real homeowner first instead of buying their way into a crowded queue.

How the data works

Everything comes from official public open-data portals published by the cities and counties we cover, plus state licensing and regulatory agencies. We do not scrape login-gated systems. Each permit is normalized to one schema, classified by trade, and tagged with the adjacent buyers who should act on it. The full source-by-source breakdown, trade-classification confidence, and legal basis are on the methodology page. One thing we state plainly: what you see on a lead is what the government record publishes. We do not sell owner phone numbers or emails anywhere; that is a specialist business, and each lead links to registered providers who do it under their own terms.

Who is behind it

PermitVector is independent and owner-operated, built in 2026 after watching good contractors overpay for recycled leads. It runs lean: when you email PermitVector, a person who actually works on the data answers, and the roadmap is set by what live subscribers ask for, not by a sales quota. PermitVector LLC is an independent company and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any government agency.