Comparison
PermitVector vs Shovels.ai
If you're weighing Shovels.ai, here's the honest difference in approach.
Shovels.ai
national AI permit-data platform
Powerful national coverage: 185M+ permits, 3.3M contractor profiles, API access, GIS tools. At $599/mo standard, it is built for marketing teams, real estate developers, and analysts who need national data at scale and have engineers to query it.
PermitVector
daily adjacent-buyer permit feed
Built for the SMB contractor, not an analyst team. $149/mo gets you a daily adjacent-buyer feed in plain English, pre-classified and pre-mapped, delivered as a brief around 6 AM CT. The API is there if you want it, and you never need it: the brief is the product.
Both can have a place in your stack. PermitVector's edge is timing and adjacency across every market it covers: public-record permits, classified and mapped to the trade that should act, delivered as a daily brief for $149/mo.
Pricing
Flat monthly. No per-lead games.
Start with a 14-day free trial. Card required, cancel in one click.
PermitVector
billed monthly
Everything, for one flat price.
Contact on your leads
Owner name and mailing address from the public record are included. Owner phone and email are sold by registered specialist providers, linked on every lead.
- ✓All 31 live markets, every trade
- ✓Search, dashboard and API across every live market and trade, up to 20,000 API requests a day, no upcharge.
- ✓A daily email with the 25 best-fit leads from the metros and trades you pick, and the day’s full matches attached as a CSV
- ✓State-license check on contractors in Texas, Florida, California and Arizona
- ✓Owner and contractor details exactly as the permit record publishes them
Contact details published in the permit record itself are included free on every plan.
One closed job typically pays for a full year. Contractors already spend $1,500–$10,000/mo on leads at $150–350 per exclusive lead.
The first one to the job site wins.
Turn your market's daily permits into your earliest, freshest pipeline. Start free and see your first feed tomorrow morning.
Card required · Free for 14 days · Cancel anytime.
Turn on your free 14-day feed.
Tell us your trade and target cities and we'll set up your daily feed. Card required to start. Free for 14 days, cancel anytime. (The free permit lookup starts a 14-day feed without a card.)
No charge for 14 days. $149/month after that unless you cancel. We'll email a reminder 3 days before your first charge. Cancel anytime from any feed email or your billing portal, no fees and no contract.