Shovels | About Shovels, Inc.

The Shovels One-Pager

Shovels is the building permit intelligence platform for residential and commercial construction. We add millions of new building permits each month and use AI to clean, classify, and connect building permits to addresses, properties, contractors, residents, and building owners to help construction companies sell more products.

What we do

Shovels compiles and analyzes public records on the following objects:

Object	Description	Accessibility
Building permit Description Parsing and granular categorization of building permits Accessibility Lookup by property address, parcel number, contractor name or license, or filter by attributes	Parsing and granular categorization of building permits by type of work	Lookup by property address, parcel number, contractor name or license, or filter by attributes
Building contractor Description Associating contractors to permits and computing quality metrics Accessibility Lookup by property address, parcel number, contractor name or license, or filter by attributes	Associating contractors to permits and computing quality metrics	Lookup by property address, parcel number, contractor name or license, or filter by attributes
Property Description Listing of related permits and contractors and property attributes Accessibility Lookup by address or parcel number, or filter by attributes	Listing of related permits and contractors	Lookup by address or parcel number, or filter by attributes

Our geographies

We have coverage in 48 states. See more detail in our Data Dictionary.

Our advantage

Our competitive advantage is our focus on data quality and completeness.

Completeness: We use multiple vendors and our own data extraction expertise to ensure that all permits are gathered from every permitting jurisdiction in our geographies.
Quality: Permit data is notoriously messy. We go out of our way to cleanse and normalize data so it is easy to consume.
Science: We layer multiple datasets to discover new statistical relationships between permits, contractors, and properties.
Recency: We process millions of new records every month.

Pricing

We sell by geography and pricing depends on whether historical data is included, how often you need updates, and how you consume the data. Contact sales@shovels.ai or call 1-800-511-7457 for more information!