Building permit intelligence

Find your next job before your competitors do.

We have collected over 5 million public building permits from 60+ markets and add thousands more every day. ContraX cleans them and turns them into scored leads, hot-market maps, and competitor rankings, so you can see who is building what, where, and when.

Free plan includes ContraX Ai for one market. No credit card.

  • 5,000,000+ permits collected
  • 60+ cities and counties
  • Updated daily
ContraX Hot Markets showing ZIP codes ranked by permit activity with a heat map
ContraX Lead Finder listing properties with roof age and opportunity score

Permits collected

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building permits collected, cleaned, and searchable in one place.

  • 60+

    Cities and counties covered

  • 12,000+

    New permits added every day

  • 20+

    Tools in the workspace

What ContraX does

Public permit data, cleaned and scored so you can act on it

Every building permit is public. Almost nobody has time to read thousands of them. We do the collecting and cleaning, and you get a market you can act on.

  1. 01

    Collect

    Public permit records pulled every day from city and county portals.

  2. 02

    Clean

    Geocoded, deduplicated, and matched to property records in one format.

  3. 03

    Score

    Each address gets an opportunity score from home age, roof permit history, and market factors.

  4. 04

    Deliver

    Dashboards, lead lists, alerts, and plain-English answers from ContraX Ai.

Find work

Every permit becomes a lead with the property, the contractor, and a score, so your calls go to the addresses most likely to buy.

  • Lead Finder
  • Permits Table
  • Hot Markets

Watch competitors

See who is pulling permits beside you, how much work they hold, and which ZIP codes they are moving into.

  • Company Profiles
  • Market Share
  • Battlemap

Choose where to spend

Rank every ZIP by permit activity and opportunity before you buy ads or send a crew.

  • Zip Code Analytics
  • Growth Areas
  • Census Data
What you get

Questions you can finally answer

Permit records are public. Turning them into a decision is the hard part. Here is what contractors, suppliers, and marketers pull out of ContraX every day.

Every ZIP in your market gets ranked by permit volume, permitted value, and an opportunity score, then layered with census income and housing age. You stop guessing which half of your ad spend is working.

  • Rank ZIPs by real permit activity, not population
  • Overlay household income and home age before you buy media
  • Export the ZIP list straight into your ad platform

Products used

  • Zip Code Analytics
  • Hot Markets
  • Census Data
ContraX Zip Code Analytics ranking ZIP codes by permit volume and opportunity score

One market free, no card required.

Your Market

What's Happening in Your Market?

Search a city, county, or ZIP for a last-30-days permit report.

Enter a city or county to see your market intelligence preview.

Try: Tampa, FL · Lee County · Cape Coral

Real World Result

Turn Market Intelligence Into Revenue.

$446.94 in ad spend. $41,389 in new revenue. Here's how Roman Roofing did it.

Featured Client

Roman Roofing

Cape Coral, FL · Residential Roofing

Q2 2026ZIP 33991 & 33993Meta Brand Awareness

The Challenge

Roman Roofing needed to grow market share in Cape Coral without increasing their overall marketing budget. The question wasn't how to spend more. It was where to spend smarter.

What ContraX Found

  • ZIP 33991 & 33993: strong permit activity with manageable competition
  • 58 roofing permits · 11 active competitors · $1.15M in permit value
  • Roman already had a foothold with room to grow
  • Zero residential reroofs sold in 33991 in the prior 3 months
“The campaign worked because we spent money more intelligently, not more of it. ContraX told us exactly where demand existed and where competition was still beatable.”

Roman Roofing, Cape Coral FL

Results · Q1 vs Q2 2026

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Qualified Leads

43 → 68 per quarter

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Appointments

40 → 57 per quarter

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Jobs Sold

28 → 34 per quarter

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Booked Revenue

$169K → $211K

Campaign Economics

Total ad spend$446.94
Cost per additional lead$17.88
Cost per additional job sold$74.49
Additional booked revenue+$0

Market context

Overall permit volume grew just 3% and active competitors increased 23%. Roman Roofing beat the market on every metric.

Full methodology, ZIP level breakdowns, and ROI analysis inside.

Read the full case study
The workspace

22 tools, one place, no spreadsheets

Everything runs on the same daily permit feed, so a lead you find in one tool carries its history, its contractor, and its market context into every other.

Find work

Turn raw permits into a list of jobs worth chasing.

  • Permits Table

    Every permit in your markets, searchable and filterable by trade, value, date, and status.

  • Lead Finder

    Scored leads enriched with roof age, home value, and property detail. Save or export the list.

  • Hot Markets

    ZIP-level heatmaps of permit density and opportunity score across your metro.

  • Growth Areas

    The ZIP clusters accelerating fastest by permit velocity over the last 90 days.

  • Who's Growing

    Contractors gaining and losing permit volume, ranked so you can see momentum shift.

  • Address Lookup

    Parcel-level permit history for any address, with the full record and map view.

  • Own Data

    Upload your CRM or bid list and cross-reference it against permits actually pulled.

Watch competitors

Know who is winning, where, and how fast.

  • Company Profiles

    Permit counts, market share, valuation, and trend lines for any contractor in your market.

  • Market Share

    Share of permits and permitted value by company, with period-over-period movement.

  • Battlemap

    A geographic view of who owns which territory, valuations plotted ZIP by ZIP.

  • Rankings

    Leaderboards by permit count, value, and growth, linked through to each profile.

Track products

For suppliers and manufacturers selling into the trade.

  • Manufacturer Profiles

    Permit volume, share, and growth for every manufacturer appearing in your markets.

  • Product Usage

    Which building products show up on permits, and how share moves between brands.

  • Manufacturer Map

    Geographic distribution of product and manufacturer activity across the market.

Understand the market

The context behind the numbers.

  • Market Trends

    Permit volume and valuation over time, with the ZIPs heating up and cooling off.

  • Zip Code Analytics

    Per-ZIP permit stats and opportunity scores, mapped and ready to export.

  • Census Data

    Population, income, and density layered over permit activity for targeting.

  • Weather

    Hail and storm history correlated to permit locations, so you can chase damage.

  • Territory Analysis

    Compare your coverage against the whole market to find the gaps you are not working.

Stay ahead

Let the data come to you.

  • Alerts

    Get notified when new permits hit a ZIP, a competitor moves, or a product appears.

  • Watch Lists

    Follow specific companies, ZIPs, or products and see changes as they happen.

  • ContraX AI

    Ask anything about your market in plain English and get a sourced, structured answer.

ContraX Ai

Ask anything about the construction market. Get a sourced answer.

ContraX Ai sits on top of our entire permit corpus and delivers analyst grade responses in seconds. Ask about markets, contractors, project pipelines, or specific leads in plain English.

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ContraX Ai

Ask anything about permit activity, contractors, and markets in plain English.

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Coverage

Over 5 million permits, from the markets you work in

Browse 60+ cities and counties with building permits, contractors, roof age, roofing leads, and ContraX Ai for every market we cover.

Browse coverage

5,000,000+

permits normalized into one format

  • 60+cities and counties
  • 12,000+new permits every day
  • Dailyrefresh from each portal

Get started

From sign-up to your first answer in about a minute

No data team, no spreadsheets, no scraping. Start on the free plan and move up when the data pays for itself.

  1. Create your account

    Sign up with your email. No credit card and no sales call.

    About 30 seconds

  2. Pick your market

    Choose the city or county you work in. Every plan starts with at least one market.

    Free plan: 1 market

  3. Ask, then unlock the rest

    Ask ContraX Ai about your market right away. Upgrade when you want the Permits Table, Lead Finder, competitor boards, and exports.

    Upgrade any time

Pricing

Start free, scale when you are readyPlans for every size of team.

Full ContraX access scales with the number of jurisdictions you need. Annual billing saves 10% on paid plans.

Free

Google for permitting. Start relying on it

$0

1 JURISDICTION

Free includes the ContraX Ai tab only. Upgrade to unlock dashboards, leads, and the rest of the workspace.

  • ContraX Ai tab only — no dashboards or other tools
  • 5 AI questions per day
  • 1 jurisdiction
  • Last 30 days of permit data
  • No exports or downloads
Best value

AI Starter

The every contractor plan

$25/mo

2 TO 3 JURISDICTIONS

  • 200 AI questions per month
  • 2 to 3 jurisdictions
  • Full historical data
  • Save AI chats
  • Basic reports & dashboards

Pro

Full Contrax: dashboards, leads, competition

$249/mo

UP TO 8 JURISDICTIONS

  • Unlimited AI
  • Up to 8 jurisdictions
  • Full dashboards
  • Downloads & exports
  • Competition reports & market share
  • Lead lists
  • Everything in Starter

Enterprise

Custom solutions for large teams and multi region operations

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9+ JURISDICTIONS

  • Unlimited AI
  • Unlimited jurisdictions
  • Custom onboarding & support
  • Everything in Pro
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