For post-construction cleaning companies
A permit means the job's awarded — not that someone's hoping.
Buildout Radar emails you new commercial construction in your county at 6 AM — ranked for final and phased cleaning, with months of lead time to get in front of the GC. Public permit records, filtered and ranked. Not a lead broker, no per-lead fees.
Public records · Never per lead · Month-to-month
Card up front, no charge for 14 days. Cancel in one click — and we email you before it ever renews.
New 4-story office building with ground-floor retail
Travis County, TX · Permit 2026-045821-BP · Issued Jul 10, 2026
$12.5M reported valuation
Why it matches
Commercial new construction needs full post-construction cleaning near completion — with months of runway to build the GC relationship.
Service window: 4–18 months after issue (estimate)
View source permit record →
Representative example. Facts from public records; score and timing are labeled estimates.
The final clean is months out from the permit — exactly the runway you need to reach the GC.
“a contractor will only apply for a building permit if they've actually been awarded the building project”
The math
Bid boards list hopefuls. A permit lists the winner.
Bid boards — NextPlans, iSquareFoot, The Blue Book — surface projects in the bid phase, where somebody is hoping to win. A permit is different: the contractor only files once the project is awarded and funded. You're prospecting signed work, not wishful work.
GC planrooms are the other channel, and half of them are password-gated — a real barrier if you're a small operator without the relationship yet. Permit records are open to everyone, and they show up months before the final clean, which is exactly the runway you need to get in front of the GC.
We won't invent a per-square-foot number for you — you know your own pricing. The value here is simpler: awarded, funded projects, seen early, in your county, without chasing password-gated planrooms.
Chasing bid boards and password-gated planrooms
Most of what you can see is either bid-phase guesswork or locked behind a GC login you don't have yet. The permit record is open, it's awarded work, and it's published months before anyone's thinking about the final clean.
The blocker is risk, not price — so we took the risk off you
When money's tight, the fear isn't $99 — it's $99 that does nothing. That's the whole reason for the 14-day free trial: see awarded projects show up for your county before your card is ever charged. Month-to-month after that, cancel in one click, and we remind you before it renews.
This isn’t Angi
You’ve been burned by lead vendors. So has everyone you know.
Buildout Radar is built as the opposite of the thing that wronged you. Every grievance in an Angi, HomeAdvisor, or Dodge contract is deliberately absent from ours.
What you’re used to
Buildout Radar
You pay per lead — even the fake ones, even the wrong trade
Flat monthly. Never per lead.
The same lead is sold to four of your competitors
We don't sell leads at all — flat monthly for the public record.
Bad numbers, no answer, “services you don't even offer”
Real public permit records — with a link to the source document
12-month contracts and a 35% cancellation fee
Month-to-month. Cancel in one click.
No trial — pay first, find out later
14-day free trial — see it work before your card is charged
Demand they manufactured by cold-calling “customers”
Permits are filed by the contractor. Real projects, already funded.
How it works
The filtering and the ranking — done. You just make the call.
Pick your county and your trade
Enter any U.S. city, county, ZIP, or radius. We resolve it against verified public permit sources before you ever pay — if it's not covered yet, you request it free and you're not charged.
We pull every new permit, daily, and rank it
Each new permit is scored for your specific service, with a plain-English reason it matches and the estimated service window. Every opportunity links straight to its public source record.
You get the shortlist at 6 AM
A daily digest (or instant alerts) with the addresses worth a call — so you reach the foreman before the site is even set up. Not a database to go dig through. The shortlist, delivered.
Timing
“By the time it’s permitted, the subs are chosen.” True — for someone else’s business.
That objection is about plumbers, electricians, and HVAC — the MEP subs picked at design. You’re not an MEP sub. A dumpster or a portable restroom is sourced when the site opens. Landscaping and final cleaning are months out. You’re early, not late.
| Your trade | When you’re needed | Lead time from permit |
|---|---|---|
| Dumpsters | Day one — demolition | Days |
| Portable restrooms | Day one, then monthly for the whole build | Days, then recurring |
| Landscaping | Final phase | Months |
| Post-construction cleaning | Final phase | Months |
14-day free trial
See every ranked permit for your county for two weeks before your card is charged. Card up front — no charge today.
Never per lead
We don't sell leads — flat monthly for public records. We have no incentive to blast your job around.
Month-to-month
No contract, no cancellation fee. We remind you before it renews. Cancel in one click.
Coverage is verified, not promised
Enter any U.S. area and we check it against a registry of verified, currently-fresh permit sources before checkout is enabled. If your area isn’t covered yet, you file a free coverage request — you’re never charged for an area we can’t actually serve, and we never claim coverage a source hasn’t passed live checks for.
Straight answers
The objections you’re already thinking
- How is this different from a bid board?
- A bid board shows projects still being bid — hopefuls. A permit is filed only after the project is awarded and funded, so you're looking at signed work, months before the final clean is scoped.
- Isn't this just a lead vendor?
- No. It's public permit records — awarded projects — filtered and ranked for post-construction cleaning and delivered. No per-lead billing, no job here is packaged and resold, and every opportunity links to the source record.
- Permits are public. Why pay?
- Because filtering them is the work — hours a week per county, most of it not commercial or not your scope. You're paying for the filtering and the ranking, delivered as a 6 AM shortlist.
- I've been burned before. What if it doesn't work?
- Start with a 14-day free trial — card up front, but no charge for two weeks and we remind you before it renews. Month-to-month after that, cancel in one click. No contract to trap you and no per-lead charge; the risk of it doing nothing sits with us, not you.
- What if my county isn't covered?
- Enter it and find out. Checkout only opens for verified, currently-fresh areas; if yours isn't covered, you request it free and you're never charged for it.
Prospect awarded projects, not hopefuls.
Commercial construction in your county, ranked for final and phased cleaning, with months of lead time. Start with a 14-day free trial, month-to-month after.
Card up front · no charge for 14 days · cancel in one click