Master permits where your trade is still open. Addresses in your ZIP whose last permit for that system is past its useful life. The companies taking the volume in your county, and where you sit against them.
We measure need, not last-minute intent. You make the contact.
A builder pulls the master permit for a new house. Framing, plumbing, electrical, roof: all of it still has to get done, and on the day that permit posts most of those trades have nobody attached to them. You get the jobs in your counties where your trade is one of them.
Then you message him from inside the portal, with your license and your permit record attached. He sees a verified contractor with a track record, not a cold caller. Win one of those and it stops being a lead. One GC relationship is worth a hundred door knocks.
Nobody bought your name and sold it on. The job is on the public record, you are the one who knew about it on Monday, and you make the contact.
1** SW Oakline Dr, Clermont 34711
Northbay Builders, general contractor
No roofing permit on record against this job yet
Ask to bid
Your license and your permit record go with the message.
Bid window alert
Made up address, made up builder, rounded times.
A bid window is only worth something while it is open. An alert goes out the hour a new project in your counties matches your trade, so you are asking on the first day instead of finding out when the job is framed.
Text alerts for bid windows and crew openings are included in the Growth alert program, and email works today. Both point at the same thing: the builder, the address, and how long you have.
Builders keep the same subs until something goes wrong. Crew tells you which of the builders in your area have a gap in your trade right now, which is the only moment a phone call from a stranger gets taken seriously.
These have a short shelf life. That is the point of them.
Crew, opening now
SampleNorthbay Builders has filed four master permits since June and none of them carries a roofing permit from the sub they normally use.
One territory = one ZIP code, one trade. While you hold it, nobody else on FloridaContractorCheck gets the residential addresses in that ZIP for your trade. Commercial buildings are sold separately, by county. $249/mo for a standard ZIP, $349/mo for a dense one. Additional ZIPs available, ask us.
Includes everything in Market Intel. You are not choosing between the two. Additional ZIPs available, just ask.
Nobody else on FloridaContractorCheck gets the residential addresses in that ZIP for your trade. Not a rival roofer, not the company that took three of your jobs last spring. One seat, one postcode.
The systems you replace all run on a clock, and the permit record says when each one was last touched. Growth reads that record for your ZIP, shows you the addresses where the clock has already run out for your trade, and locks the ZIP to you alone.
Anchored on the permit date of the last replacement, never on the age of the house. Each address carries the owner from the public property record, the assessed value, and for roofing the measured roof size, so you price the job before you knock.
They come out in door-knock order: owner occupied first, then absentee, then the investors who keep buying.
Your own past job
Sample4** Bluff Rd, Groveland 34736
Due nowYou pulled the roof permit here in 2009. Shingle roofs in Central Florida do not get a second decade.
The walk map turns your week into one neighborhood at a time. The letter pack prints, folds and goes in the mail. The CSV goes wherever you already work.
Every address you touch checks off into a stage, so the follow-up you meant to make on Friday actually surfaces on Friday. Your rows stay readable if you downgrade or cancel and Export CSV always works. We are not going to hold your own call list hostage.
Rezonings, site plans and variances from planning-board agendas, plus buildings whose milestone inspection comes due, months before the permit exists. We'll email you when Horizon can be added on its own.
Growth tells you which houses need the work. This is where you write the number. Build an estimate from a permit, a lead or a job already in your pipeline, price it off your own catalog, send it for signature, and turn it into an invoice when it comes back signed. It works on top of Growth and costs $79 a month for the whole account, however many ZIPs or people you have on it.
Try it for 30 days free. If you stop paying for it, the estimates you already sent stay live for the people you sent them to, and you keep every document you wrote. You just cannot write new ones.
Per account. However many ZIPs, however many people.
Growth is the thing you work. Market Intel is the thing you read: what happened in your trade and your county, who did it, and which of it is worth your week.
Most contractors guess at this. They know the two rivals whose trucks they see and nothing about the outfit quietly taking the ZIP one street over.
#7
of 41 roofers in Lake County this quarter, by permits on record
up 3 places since last quarter
Re-service targets
You installed it. You know the address, you know the crew, you probably still know the homeowner. We flag the month that system runs out, off the permit you pulled, so the easiest call in your week is to somebody who already paid you once.
Weekly Edition and ZIP momentum
Monday morning you get the ZIPs in your trade where volume is climbing, and the ones going quiet. Most contractors work out that a neighborhood got busy when a rival crew’s yard signs start showing up in it. This is earlier than that.
Top Company Reports
Monthly and quarterly rankings of who filed the most permits in your county, by trade, with your own position in the list. Pair it with the track record on any company and you can see exactly which competitor grew and where they did it.
Storm-surge alerts
After a storm the permit volume in some ZIPs doubles and in others it barely moves. The alert tells you which is which for your trade, while the tarps are still on the roofs.
Permit search, the properties tab, date modes and the map are in there too. They are the tools under the reading, not the reason to buy.
Claiming is free and stays free. Market Intel shows you the market. Growth hands you a ZIP nobody else in your trade can buy, and the work inside it.
Everything you need to get found
Rate locked in at signup. Cancel anytime
See your whole market: every permit, competitor, and storm-surge in your area
$349/mo for a dense ZIP
Includes everything in Market Intel. You are not choosing between the two.
Pay annually and get 2 months free. Homeowner inquiries are included. Market Intel and Growth subscribers get them at no charge. We hand these to you at no charge. Our product is what happens before anyone asks for a quote.
Buy Address packs ($49-99): addresses past due for replacement in your trade, each one backed by a record on file.
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Start with how contractor leads work here if you want the whole picture in one page. Otherwise go straight to yours:
Your license is already here from the DBPR records. Put in the number, we verify it, and the profile is yours. Paid plans sit on top of it whenever you want them.
Two different things, and they are worth keeping straight. Market Intel at $99 a month is the reading: the permits filed around you, your rank in your trade and county, the ZIPs where volume is climbing, and your own past jobs flagged the month that system comes due again. Growth at $249 a month for a standard ZIP is the working: master permits filed by general contractors where your trade has no permit on record yet, a message straight to that GC, and the addresses in your exclusive ZIP whose last permit for your system is past its useful life. Claiming your profile is free and stays free.
No, and the difference is who made the first move. A shared lead is a homeowner who filled in a form, sold to several contractors at once. What Growth gives you is a permit on record: a real job, a real address, a real filing date. Nobody asked us to call you and nobody is waiting for your call. We measure need, not last-minute intent. You make the contact. Homeowner inquiries do come through your profile as well, and those are included at no extra charge on both paid plans.
One ZIP, one trade, one contractor. While you hold a Growth territory, nobody else on FloridaContractorCheck gets the residential addresses in that ZIP for your trade. Commercial projects in your area stay visible so you can grow into them, and commercial buildings are sold separately by county. Standard ZIPs are $249 a month and dense ones are $349, because a ZIP with a few thousand qualifying addresses is not the same product as a rural one. Additional ZIPs are available, just ask us.
A master permit that a general contractor has already pulled, where your trade still has no permit on record against that job. Statewide there are roughly 2,500 new GC master permits a month on record, and more than 1,100 Florida general contractors filed one in the last 30 days. Project Leads filters that to your counties and your trade, tells you the filing date and the job value, and lets you send the GC a note through the portal. Your license and your permit track record ride along with it, so the builder can see who is asking.
No. Your license is already in here from the Florida DBPR records, and claiming it costs nothing. A free profile gets you the verification badge, your logo and description, service areas, customer reviews you can reply to, and License Watch, which shows you permits filed under your license number so you can catch misuse. The paid plans are about what happens before a homeowner ever calls anyone.
Not complete, and we would rather say so. Florida has no single permit system. Some jurisdictions publish everything, some publish a little, and a few release nothing a machine can read. So every count in the portal is a floor: at least this many on record, in the jurisdictions we cover. That is also why we do not tell you how many permits you have pulled. We tell you what is on record.
