How does Shovels help building material suppliers find contractors?

Shovels provides nationwide building permit data that lets you segment contractors by revenue, service area, and specialty. This enriches your lead program with unique insights on both commercial and residential builders, and the data integrates directly with Salesforce and HubSpot.

Can Shovels help prevent fraudulent purchases?

Yes. Shovels can verify that a prospective customer is a licensed contractor by checking their registration information against a database of nearly 3 million contractors. This helps prevent unauthorized or fraudulent purchases of building materials.

How can building material distributors use Shovels for credit decisions?

Shovels provides trailing revenue, permit history, and service area detail for contractors. This data helps you assess credit risk when deciding whether to open a line of credit for a contractor account.

What contractor information does Shovels provide?

Shovels offers detailed contractor profiles including revenue estimates, permit history, service area coverage, employee contact information, and license verification data. This helps your sales team qualify leads and close more accounts.

Which companies use Shovels for building materials sales?

Shovels is trusted by companies including Schneider Electric, Beacon, Harvest Thermal, Boldr, and Generator Supercenter.

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Find the most active contractors working on the largest projects in your markets

Permit details for commercial contractors: Segment contractors by revenue, service area, and specialty. Add this detail to Salesforce and HubSpot to help your field sales team close more accounts.
Prevent fraudulent purchases: Use Shovels to confirm that a new customer is a licensed contractor. Verify their registration information against our database of nearly 3 million contractors.
Credit checks for building contractors: Determine whether to open a line of credit for a new contractor account. Shovels provides trailing revenue, permit history, and service area detail to help you compute credit risk.

Built for the data-driven sales team

We provide comprehensive intelligence empowering your team to identify high-value prospects, verify contractor credentials, and accelerate deal closure with data-driven insights.

Detailed contractor profiles

Our contractor profiles include revenue, permit history, and service area detail to help you qualify leads, compute credit risk, and close more sales.

Employee contact information

We provide employee contact information to help your teams reach out to the right contacts.

Shovels provides contractor employee data.

Project viability signals

Track city council decisions on major development projects. Distinguish between politically-backed builds with high completion probability and controversial projects facing delays or cancellation.

City council decisions showing project viability.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does Shovels help building material suppliers find contractors?: Shovels provides nationwide building permit data that lets you segment contractors by revenue, service area, and specialty. This enriches your lead program with unique insights on both commercial and residential builders, and the data integrates directly with Salesforce and HubSpot.
Can Shovels help prevent fraudulent purchases?: Yes. Shovels can verify that a prospective customer is a licensed contractor by checking their registration information against a database of nearly 3 million contractors. This helps prevent unauthorized or fraudulent purchases of building materials.
How can building material distributors use Shovels for credit decisions?: Shovels provides trailing revenue, permit history, and service area detail for contractors. This data helps you assess credit risk when deciding whether to open a line of credit for a contractor account.
What contractor information does Shovels provide?: Shovels offers detailed contractor profiles including revenue estimates, permit history, service area coverage, employee contact information, and license verification data. This helps your sales team qualify leads and close more accounts.
Which companies use Shovels for building materials sales?: Shovels is trusted by companies including Schneider Electric, Beacon, Harvest Thermal, Boldr, and Generator Supercenter.
How can Shovels help assess project viability?: Shovels tracks city council decisions on major development projects, helping you distinguish between politically-backed builds with high completion probability and controversial projects facing delays or cancellation. This Decisions data allows you to prioritize sales efforts on projects more likely to reach completion.

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