U.S. permit and contractor dataset, delivered live to Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks. Normalized to one schema, with no pipelines to build or maintain.
Shovels is SOC 2® Type II certified
We meet the security and compliance requirements of enterprise data teams. Our SOC 2 Type II certification reflects controls independently audited over a sustained period—and we complete security questionnaires, sign DPAs, and share audit reports as part of your procurement process.
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Live data delivered to your environment — Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or parquet files to S3, GCS, or Azure. We ingest, normalize, and maintain the pipeline so your team can focus on analysis.
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Choose standard twice-monthly updates or a custom delivery schedule aligned to your workflow, reporting needs, and SLA requirements. Receive data when your business needs it.
1st & 15th
standard delivery
+7.2M
records / cycle
SLA
enterprise terms
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Access every permit, contractor, property, and decision field through a unified analytics and AI-ready schema. No jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction mapping or cleanup required. Put our interconnected tables to work for your specific needs.
permits
contractors
property
decisions
one unified schema · analytics & AI-ready
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Work directly with a dedicated customer success and solutions architect who helps your team onboard, integrate, and operationalize the data. Get answers from experts, not a support queue.
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Access the complete permit backlog, not just recent records. Train models, analyze long-term trends, and backfill workflows with more than 20 years of construction activity — or use real-time city decisions and net-new permit, contractor, and property data.
We source data from thousands of jurisdictions online and offline through public records. New jurisdictions are added continuously based on market trends & customer demand, with coverage spanning all major metros and expanding rural markets.
Shovels delivers data natively to Snowflake, BigQuery, and Databricks. We handle the transfer directly with no ETL pipelines or middleware required on your end. Custom delivery schedules are available for enterprise contracts.
Yes. We can deliver a sample dataset directly to your Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks environment so your team can evaluate coverage, schema, and data quality before signing. We also publish public marketplace listings on Snowflake and BigQuery.
Shovels covers approximately 85% of the U.S. population across 2,770+ jurisdictions, all normalized to a single schema. You won't need to handle jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction variation. A full coverage dashboard is available at shovels.ai/coverage.
Standard delivery includes updates on the 1st and 15th of each month, with 5-10 million new records per cycle. Custom refresh cadences are available for enterprise contracts with specific SLA requirements.
Enterprise customers get a dedicated solutions architect for onboarding, integration, and ongoing support. We also respond to security questionnaires, sign DPAs, and provide SOC 2 Type II documentation as part of any procurement process.
The ROI framing depends on your use case — sales prospecting, market sizing, risk modeling, or network planning. Our team can help you build a business case with sample data in your environment and a coverage report for your target markets.
The most complete permit dataset available, delivered to your stack.