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Shovels makes building permit data useful. We track over 130M building permits to help companies explore and profile homeowners and building contractors.

What we do

Shovels compiles and analyzes public records on the following objects:

Object
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
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
Property
Description
Listing of related permits and contractors
Accessibility
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!