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Sells US building-permit and contractor data: 174M+ permits from 2,750+ jurisdictions and 3.5M+ contractor profiles with contact info, delivered via API, web app, CLI, or bulk parquet/Snowflake/BigQuery shares.
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1US building-permit and contractor dataset: 174M+ permits from 2,750+ jurisdictions plus 3.5M+ contractor profiles with contact info, joined to properties and demographics nationwide, delivered via REST API, web app, CLI, or bulk parquet / Snowflake / Databricks / BigQuery share
Updated twice monthly (1st and 15th of each month)Scale 178M+ building permits from 2From 16 years
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What does Shovels do?
Sells US building-permit and contractor data: 174M+ permits from 2,750+ jurisdictions and 3.5M+ contractor profiles with contact info, delivered via API, web app, CLI, or bulk parquet/Snowflake/BigQuery shares.
What data does Shovels offer?
Shovels offers (building-permit and contractor data API) — 178M+ building permits from 2,770+ jurisdictions; 3.65M+ licensed contractors; 7M+ new permits added monthly.
What is Shovels's data used for?
sales prospecting and lead list building; market sizing; risk modeling; network planning; training models on 20+ years of permit history; powering climate-tech and prop-tech products
How is Shovels's data delivered?
The data is with 16 years of history, delivered by api, dashboard, file drop, s3, snowflake share. The supplier states the update frequency as "twice monthly (1st and 15th of each month)".
What does Shovels cover?
Coverage spans US; Construction & Engineering.
How do I get a sample from Shovels?
Shovels's site offers a sample on request, and the supplier's own access route is an api signup. Request a sample through Brickroad to start.
How is Shovels's data licensed and priced?
Shovels publishes its data under Shovels EDL (Enterprise Data License); freemium — Free $0/mo (500 credits, 1 year of record history, 1 seat); Basic $599/mo (25,000 credits, full history, 1 seat, downloadable records); Pro $999/mo (50,000 credits, full history, 2 seats); Enterprise custom. A credit = one cleaned, normalized record, consumed by API request or export, reset monthly. Bulk Enterprise Data License (parquet / Snowflake / Databricks / BigQuery) is priced separately.. Terms and price bands are in the Buyer room.
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