Permit alerts for contractors

The permit is public.
The job is yours.

Every morning, the permits in your county that are jobs for your trade: the address, the licensed contractor on the record, and a note ready to send.

Permits on record · Sacramento County
Example
935
Public records matched to the trades they predict work for.
Live sources36
Declared value$0
Biggest feeds checkedHourly
01Pick your trade and radius
02Alerts timed to the buy
03You send the note
Start monitoring, $99/mo See the county page

Example figures. Yours depend on your county. Counts describe records Deal Radar has ingested, not every record the county holds.

  • No bought leads shared with five competitors
  • No spreadsheet of every permit in the county
  • No driving past jobs with someone else's truck out front
Start monitoring, $99/mo One market included. Cancel any time.

Not a contractor? This is a tool for construction businesses. If you are a homeowner after permit information on your own property, your city or county building department publishes it free.

14,942Records in the Sacramento feed
36Live sources running
HourlyThe two biggest permit feeds are checked every hour
248,170CSLB licences loaded

Measured 14 October 2026. Counts describe records Deal Radar has ingested, not every record that exists.

The problem

You already know the permit is public. The problem is being there first.

A pool permit is issued in June. Nobody has priced the yard yet, and the record has been sitting in the county's public feed the whole time. Whoever reads it first gets the call. Deal Radar reads it for you and puts it in front of you on the day your trade is normally bought.

That timing gap is the whole product.  See how it compares to buying leads.

What Deal Radar solves

Permit data becomes a job you can quote this week.

Find the right records, not all of them

Deal Radar watches every permit feed in your county and keeps the ones that are work for your trade, inside your drive radius, at the stage you can still win.

Know whose job it is, and when

A pool permit is the pool builder's job the day it files and the landscaper's six weeks later. Every alert is keyed to your CSLB classification and held until the day your trade is normally bought.

Show up with the note already written

The address, the record it came from, the licensed contractor named on it where there is one, and a short drafted message built from the record's own facts. You edit it and send it. Nothing goes out in your name.

Morning brief · Sacramento 7:00 AM
3 records matched your trade today
  1. 98 Pool permit issued · Elk Grove, 95757 Shell goes in over 6 weeks. Nobody has priced the yard. Fires for Landscaping (C-27) on day 42.
  2. 91 Re-roof permit filed · Carmichael, 95608 2,400 sf comp shingle. Licensed contractor named on the record. Four more roofs on the block from 2005.
  3. 84 ADU permit approved · Rancho Cordova, 95670 Second unit on an existing lot. Trenching, slab and a new panel before framing starts.
Address, record, drafted note. You send it. Illustration
How it works

From a public record to a job you can quote.

Follow one pool permit through it.

Incoming · today
  • Re-roof permit filedCarmichael
  • Pool permit issuedElk Grove
  • Water-heater permitStockton
  • ADU permit approvedRancho Cordova
  • EV charger permitFolsom
35+public sources
Hourlyon the biggest feeds
1×each record, timestamped
Pool permit issued · Elk Grove
Day 1Pool builderC-53
Day 42LandscaperC-27
One record, two trades, two different mornings. Each gets it when the work is still open.
Who is on the record
Licensed contractor Matched to the CSLB registry Licence #ActiveClasses
Property owner Parcel and mailing address No names heldNone invented
A real business with a real licence number, or nothing. Never a guess.
Drafted for you · edit before sending
To: the pool contractor named on the permit

Hi, saw the pool permit come through on your Elk Grove job. We handle the landscaping once the shell is in. Happy to walk the yard with you this week and get a number to the owner before anyone else does.

EditSend from your phone
Deal Radar never auto-sends and never contacts a homeowner for you.

Illustration. The record and note above are examples, not a real job.

Prioritise the right jobs

Do not just find more permits. Find the ones worth the drive.

Deal Radar puts the record, the timing, the map and your pipeline in one place so you can answer, before you leave the yard:

  • Which permits in my radius are my trade, filed this week?
  • Which of them are at the stage where my work gets bought?
  • Who is the licensed contractor on the record, and have I worked with them?
  • Which five stops make a sensible route today?
  • Which blocks have three jobs going and no one has knocked yet?
  • Which alerts did I notice, quote, and win?
What you already tried

Everyone sells contractors a list. Nobody sells the reason to drive there today.

Bought leads

The same homeowner, sold to five of you at once, after she has already started calling around. You pay per lead and race to the phone.

You still chase.
Permit lookup sites

Every permit in the county in a spreadsheet. Nothing says which ones are your trade, which stage they are at, or who is on the record.

You still grind.
Driving the neighbourhood

You spot the job when the trucks are already parked out front with somebody else's name on the door.

You still arrive last.
Deal Radar

The permit, the stage, the licensed contractor named on it, and a drafted note, the morning the record posts. Timed to the day your trade is normally bought.

You show up first.
What you get

What you get for $99.

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The permit feed for your market

Building permit applications and issuances, CEQA environmental notices, affordable-housing awards and licence activity, pulled from county and city feeds, deduplicated and dated.

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Matched to your trade, timed to the buy

Every record is keyed to the CSLB classifications it predicts work for and held until the day that trade is normally bought, rather than dumped on you the day it was filed.

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The licensed contractor on the record

Where a record names a contractor, it is resolved against the California State Licensing Board registry: the business, the licence number, the classification. Where the audience is a property owner, you get the parcel address. No invented names.

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A drafted note you send yourself

Each alert carries a short message written from the record's own facts, the address, the work and the timing, ready for you to edit. You send it from your own phone or email. Nothing goes out in your name.

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Radar map and day route

Every live signal in your radius on one map, and a truck route that puts the day's stops in a sensible order instead of criss-crossing the county.

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A daily rundown and a board to work it

What came in, what is due today, and a pipeline board to move a signal from noticed to quoted to won, so nothing sits in an inbox and rots.

Why you can believe it

We collect the record ourselves, from the agency that published it.

Nobody sells you a list here. Deal Radar pulls each record straight from the county, the city or the state agency that published it, keeps the date it appeared, and shows you the source. If a number on this site cannot be traced back to a record we ingested, it does not go on the site.

  • Public records, plus public news feeds. Government open data and official APIs, and a small number of public news feeds that are public but not official. We never scrape private platforms or social networks.
  • Watched for breakage. A source that fails repeatedly is marked broken and re-probed daily, so a silent feed shows up as a problem instead of as an empty week.
  • Timestamped and deduplicated. You see when a record surfaced, and you never see the same one twice.
  • Polite by design. The monitor identifies itself and respects each source's rate limits, so the feeds stay open to us.
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A person sends, always

Deal Radar drafts and stages; you review and send. No auto-texts, no auto-email, no auto-DMs, and no contact with a homeowner or consumer on your behalf, on any plan.

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Real records only

We never fabricate a name, title, email or phone number. A contact traces back to a public record: the contractor named on the permit, resolved against the CSLB licence registry, or the parcel and its mailing address. Where we do not know a name, the product says so.

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Your own workspace

You sign in at app.dealradar.dev. Your signals, notes and pipeline are scoped to your workspace and are never visible to another customer. Setup is you picking your trade and your radius at first sign-in, which takes a minute.

Who it is for

The same permit is a different job for every trade.

Every trigger is keyed to a CSLB classification, so the alert lands when your trade is normally bought. Pick yours and see exactly which records fire for it, at what stage, and who you would be contacting.

Landscaping C-27 · 8 triggers · 20 mi radius The dirt backyard map: new-tract closings as a conveyor belt of $30k yards. Concrete C-8 · 5 triggers · 20 mi radius Foundations first: reading the sitework pipeline before the concrete bid goes out. Earthwork and Paving C-12 · 4 triggers · 40 mi radius Pavement management reports rank every street in the city with a repair schedule. Roofing C-39 · 5 triggers · 25 mi radius Roof age is public record: the 20-year list and how to work it before the storm does. HVAC C-20 · 5 triggers · 25 mi radius Every system has a birthday in the permit record: targeting the 15-year replacement wave. Plumbing C-36 · 5 triggers · 25 mi radius Galvanized, polybutylene, PEX: reading your city's repipe market off the permit record. Solar C-46 · 4 triggers · 30 mi radius The cluster effect: why your next ten installs are within 500 feet of your last. Swimming Pool C-53 · 2 triggers · 30 mi radius Competitor pool permits map the hot neighbourhoods before the season starts. General Building B · 6 triggers · 40 mi radius Approved at planning, unbuilt for a year: the entitlement-to-GC window. Pressure Washing 3 triggers · 25 mi radius New business licences are a storefront wash route, filed daily. Junk Hauling 2 triggers · 30 mi radius Evictions, estates and closings move junk, and the filings are public. Moving Services 2 triggers · 40 mi radius A TI permit is a move date; a closing is another. Both are public. Mold Remediation 1 trigger · 35 mi radius Water events age into mold jobs on a fixed clock, and the events are public. Water Damage Restoration 2 triggers · 40 mi radius Storm and flood declarations map the dryout work street by street. Commercial Cleaning 3 triggers · 35 mi radius Every new business licence is a recurring-contract prospect with a date. House Cleaning 1 trigger · 20 mi radius Move-ins are cleans, and closings say where they are about to happen. Window Cleaning 2 triggers · 25 mi radius Storefront routes are built from the business licence feed, not door knocks. Carpet Cleaning 1 trigger · 25 mi radius Turnovers clean carpets: evictions and closings are the schedule. Pest Control 2 triggers · 30 mi radius Health permits are mandated pest contracts with an opening date attached. Appliance Repair 1 trigger · 30 mi radius Commercial kitchens are service contracts; the plan checks name them first. Locksmith 2 triggers · 30 mi radius REO rekeys and new storefronts, read from filings not from ads. Dumpster Rental 3 triggers · 35 mi radius Every demo and tear-off permit is a container with a delivery date. Handyman Services 1 trigger · 20 mi radius Small-job demand is readable from the same records the big trades watch. Gutter Services 3 triggers · 25 mi radius Reroof permits are a gutter pipeline with a one-week lag. Electrical C-10 · 6 triggers · 25 mi radius The panel is the bottleneck: how electrification permits map your next hundred jobs.

The ruleset behind the product covers 60 CSLB classifications and 15 home-service trades. The pages above are the ones published today; the rest are live inside the product and get pages as their markets clear the coverage threshold.

Questions

Straight answers.

What is Deal Radar?

Deal Radar is permit-alert software for contractors and home-service businesses in California. Every morning it sends the new building permits and other public records in your county that are jobs for your trade, with the address, the licensed contractor on the record, and a drafted note you send yourself.

Where does the data come from?

Public records, collected from the agency that published them: county and city permit feeds, CEQA environmental notices, affordable-housing award lists, liquor licence activity, and the California State Licensing Board contractor registry. A small number of public news feeds are included too, which are public but not official, and are labelled as such. We never scrape private platforms or social networks, we identify our monitoring, and we respect rate limits.

Does it work for my trade?

If your work leaves a public record before it is bought, yes. Every trigger is keyed to a CSLB classification and timed to the point that trade is normally bought. See the trade pages for exactly which records fire for yours. If your jobs do not touch permits, sales, entitlements or code enforcement, this is the wrong tool and we would rather you knew now.

Which markets are live?

Greater Sacramento is the market open for subscription today: Sacramento and Yolo county records, plus Stockton and Manteca permits in San Joaquin County. Every California county has a page showing what has actually been ingested there; a page with no counts is telling you the truth. See market coverage, and if your county is not live, tell us which one you work in.

How much does Deal Radar cost?

Starter is $99 a month, Pro $299 and Team $599, each with one market included; every additional market is $49 a month. There is no free tier, no trial and no contract. You can cancel any time from Settings; cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing period, and that period is not refunded. Details on the pricing page.

How is this different from buying leads?

A bought lead is a homeowner who asked for quotes, usually sold to several contractors at once. Deal Radar is the public record: work that is already permitted or filed, found before anyone asks for quotes, and not sold to anyone. The full comparison includes where bought leads are still the better choice.

Will you contact homeowners for me?

No, never, on any plan. Deal Radar drafts a message and hands it to you. You edit it and send it yourself. Nothing goes out in your name and no consumer is ever contacted by us.

Do you have the homeowner's name?

No. Today a household-facing signal gives you the property and its mailing address, not the owner of record, because the county assessor roll is not loaded. The drafted artifact is a letter, postcard or door hanger addressed to the property. If you are buying this expecting phone numbers for homeowners, wait.

How fast can I start?

Immediately. You sign up, enter a card, pick your trade and your drive radius, and the feed is there. There is no trial and no waiting list, and there is no call to book.

Stop paying per lead for jobs that were public a month ago.

Pick your trade and your drive radius at sign-up. The feed is there the same minute, and the next alert lands on the next hourly check.

Start monitoring, $99/mo Sign in

$99/mo. One market included. Cancel from Settings, effective at the end of the period.

Greater Sacramento is the market open for subscription today: Sacramento and Yolo county records, plus Stockton and Manteca permits in San Joaquin County. Need a different county?

We never contact your customers, and nothing goes out in your name.