Florida Permit Alerts

Yesterday’s permits.Tomorrow’s jobs.

Every building permit pulled in six Florida feeds, tagged for the trade that comes next, in your inbox each morning.

$1 for the first 7 days. Your plan starts on day 8 unless you cancel from any email footer.

The morning email

The real template, rendered with Fri, Oct 23 data for roofing in City of Port St. Lucie: 6 of 19 rows here, up to 25 in the send. Open the full email

Pick your territory and trade

19 permits tagged roofing, issued Fri, Oct 23 in City of Port St. Lucie: follow-on signals first, then the same-trade permits a competitor already pulled.

3 follow-on signals, 16 same-trade permits

City of Port St. Lucie · issued Fri, Oct 23 · newest issue day in the feed

  • 2800 SE Eagle Dr—
    RS - Single Family Residence · Port St. Lucie 34984
    Single Family Residence / Residential / Issued
    Contractor not in feed
    Fri, Oct 23 · 2627272
  • 9992 NW Field Flower Trl—
    RS - Single Family Residence · Port St. Lucie 34945
    Single Family Residence / Residential / Issued
    Contractor not in feed
    Fri, Oct 23 · 2635362
  • 10012 NW Farmfield Ln—
    RS - Single Family Residence · Port St. Lucie 34945
    Single Family Residence / Residential / Issued
    Contractor not in feed
    Fri, Oct 23 · 2637182
  • 2555 SE Gowin Dr—
    RR - Roof Replacement · Port St. Lucie 34952
    Roof Replacement Metal Roof Panels / Residential / Issued
    Contractor not in feed
    same tradeFri, Oct 23 · 2637992
  • 1526 SE Cownie St—
    RR - Roof Replacement · Port St. Lucie 34983
    Roof Replacement Asphalt Shingle / Residential / Issued
    Contractor not in feed
    same tradeFri, Oct 23 · 2638009
  • 2443 SW Mountwell St—
    RR - Roof Replacement · Port St. Lucie 34984
    Roof Replacement Asphalt Shingle / Residential / Issued
    Contractor not in feed
    same tradeFri, Oct 23 · 2638021
  • 5850 NW Begonia Ave—
    RR - Roof Replacement · Port St. Lucie 34986
    Roof Replacement Asphalt Shingle / Residential / Issued
    Contractor not in feed
    same tradeFri, Oct 23 · 2638039
  • 455 NW Gibraltar Ct—
    RR - Roof Replacement · Port St. Lucie 34986
    Roof Replacement Asphalt Shingle / Residential / Issued
    Contractor not in feed
    same tradeFri, Oct 23 · 2638075
City of Port St. Lucie: feed edited Oct 25, 7:46 AM ET · Queried Oct 26, 2:07 AM ET11 more permits that day, in the full email

How it works

  1. 01

    Pick a territory, which is whatever one public feed covers, and the trade you work.

  2. 02

    Each morning we read that jurisdiction's open-data feed and tag every permit for the work that comes next; the last query, Oct 26, 2:07 AM ET, kept 7,272 permits across 6 feeds, 2,004 of them tagged for a trade.

  3. 03

    The email arrives with the rows, each one linked to its public record, and a one-click unsubscribe.

Coverage

Six jurisdictions publish machine-readable permits with no login; those are the six we sell, labelled by what each feed covers. Counties without a feed, and the parts of Lee, Orange and St. Lucie outside the three cities, are not covered.

  • Miami-Dade CountyMiami-Dade Countyfeed edited Oct 25, 8:35 AM ET
  • City of MiamiMiami-Dade Countyfeed edited Oct 25, 9:02 AM ET
  • City of Cape CoralCape Coral (Lee County)newest row change Oct 25, 9:50 PM ET
  • City of Port St. LucieCity of Port St. Luciefeed edited Oct 25, 7:46 AM ET
  • Manatee CountyManatee Countyno edit timestamp published; newest issue date Sat, Oct 24
  • City of OrlandoCity of Orlandofeed edited Oct 25, 11:53 PM ET
Queried Oct 26, 2:07 AM ET

Pricing

Per trade, per territory, monthly. $1 for the first 7 days.

Daily alerts

$99/mo

One morning email with every permit tagged for your trade in the territory, every row linked to the record. Other subscribers in your trade get the same list.

Trades
1
Territories
1
Exclusive zips
none, shared list
Emails
one a morning
Rows per email
up to 25, then a link
Source record link
every row
Same-trade intel
counted separately

Exclusive zips

$249/mo

Everything in Daily alerts, plus up to 8 zip codes you choose that no other subscriber in your trade receives from us while your plan is active.

Trades
1
Territories
1
Exclusive zips
up to 8, your pick
Emails
one a morning
Rows per email
up to 25, then a link
Source record link
every row
Same-trade intel
counted separately

Exclusivity is among our subscribers, not over the data: permits are public records and anyone can read the city's feed. It runs quarter to quarter, use it or lose it; a lapsed or cancelled plan releases its zips.

  • $1 for the first 7 days. Your plan starts on day 8 unless you cancel from any email footer.
  • Cancel from the footer of any email, one click.
  • No partial-month refunds; the month you paid for runs out.

Questions

Where does the data come from?
The ArcGIS and Socrata open-data endpoints each jurisdiction publishes. Nothing is scraped from a permit portal, and nothing comes from Zillow or Realtor.
How fresh is it?
As fresh as the feed, and each email prints the feed's own last-edit time. When we queried (Oct 26, 2:07 AM ET) those times were: Miami-Dade County Oct 25, 8:35 AM ET; City of Miami Oct 25, 9:02 AM ET; City of Cape Coral Oct 25, 9:50 PM ET; City of Port St. Lucie Oct 25, 7:46 AM ET; City of Orlando Oct 25, 11:53 PM ET. Manatee publishes no edit timestamp, so we show its newest issue date instead. That is one query, not a week of them, so we do not yet say how often any feed updates or when the email goes out.
What is a “follow-on signal” and a “same-trade permit”?
Florida law makes a pool permit a leading indicator: FS 515.27 requires a barrier, an approved cover, exit alarms, self-closing doors or a pool alarm before final inspection, and the screen-enclosure and paver permits on the data pages show how often a cage and a deck follow. A pool or new-home permit is someone else's; the roofing work that follows is a lead, and we call it a follow-on signal. A permit already pulled for roofing work is a competitor's job; it is listed too, marked “same trade” and counted separately, as market intel.
Why not the Notice of Commencement?
It is earlier than the permit: FS 713.13 has the owner record a NOC before the work commences, and FS 713.135 holds the first inspection until the building department has a copy on direct contracts over $5,000 (the thresholds, with the statute text). The clerks publish it on a lag and not everywhere for free, so it is planned for a later release, not in this one.
Refunds and cancelling?
$1 for the first 7 days. Your plan starts on day 8 unless you cancel from any email footer. After that the month you paid for runs out; no partial-month refunds, no calls.
Who can subscribe?
Licensed contractors. A DBPR licence check for the trade you pick is planned and is not built yet. Owners named in public records are never contacted by us.