PermitsByBadaYesterday's permits in your trade, in your inbox, every morning. No portal, no spreadsheet, no 130 columns.
PermitsByBada reads the permit records a city publishes, keeps your trade, and hands you the list. Made for roofing, HVAC, solar, plumbing, electrical, pool and remodel businesses, and for the people who sell to them.
Get the last 7 days free
Pick your metro and trade. We email you the last 7 days as a CSV, so you see your own list before you pay anything.
Email, one click, no card. We send a confirmation link first. When you click it we send the CSV, and you may get a short follow-up or two about the daily feed. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and we never share your address.
What the city portal gives you, and what you get
The city portal
- One table with every permit, every trade mixed together.
- The contractor, when there is one, sits in a field you read row by row.
- The trade is not always a column. Often it is hidden in the words of the description.
- It is free, but it does not email you. You have to remember to check.
PermitsByBada
- Only your trade, from the same public records.
- Address, issue date, permit type, what the work is, declared value and the contractor of record as the city published it.
- A CSV, a web dashboard, and a digest email every morning.
- No portal to learn and no columns to hide.
| City | Permits | Contractor named | Trade only in the description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin, TX | 927 | 91% | 8% |
| Chicago, IL | 547 | 97% | 7% |
| Trade | Austin | Chicago |
|---|---|---|
| Roofing | 18 | 37 |
| HVAC | 152 | 8 |
| Solar | 14 | 39 |
| Plumbing | 252 | 22 |
| Electrical | 296 | 76 |
| Pool | 26 | 0 |
| Remodel | 84 | 177 |
Counts are permits issued in the last 7 days, from public records published by each city. Updated 2026-10-22.
How it works in three steps
- We watch the city for you. Every morning we pull the official permit feed for your metro.
- We keep only your trade. Roofing is roofing even when the city writes a long description instead of "roof". Our classifier reads every description.
- We hand you a clean list. Address, issue date, permit type, what the work is, declared value, and the contractor of record as the city published it. CSV and a web dashboard, with a digest email each morning.
You stay the first call. A fresh permit means the job is starting now.
Who it is for
- Roofing and HVAC suppliers and distributors who want to call the contractors who are pulling permits.
- Solar installers watching competitors.
- Subcontractors chasing general contractors.
- Restoration firms.
- Lead-gen agencies that sell to the trades.
Each product page names its own buyers.
Where the data comes from
Public records, published by the City of Austin and the City of Chicago. Every row starts as a permit in a city open data portal. We read it, tidy it, sort it by trade and publish it. We do not add anything from other sources. The data sources page names each dataset, its licence terms and what we remove.
Launch metros and trades
Austin, TX
Chicago, IL
Price
$49 a month. The same records cost $299 to $1,999 a month elsewhere.
$49 a month for one metro and one trade, or $129 a month for all trades in a metro. Annual billing costs 10 months instead of 12. See pricing for the full list and common questions.