Know which contractors are growing in your territory.

Building-permit intelligence for suppliers. We resolve the messy names in municipal permit data into real companies, then track who's accelerating — so your reps call the right contractor before your competitors know they exist.

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362
permits for one builder our resolver unified from 3 division names
5th → not 15th
that builder's true market rank — naive feeds get it wrong
Published lag
per-source data freshness, in the open — ask competitors for theirs

A permit feed is a commodity. Knowing who's growing isn't.

Municipal open data lists the same company under half a dozen names — divisions, legal suffixes, regional qualifiers, typos. Rank contractors without fixing that and you'll tell your sales team something false about the top of their market.

// real City of Calgary data, 12 months
MATTAMY — 362 permits total
  "MATTAMY (NORTHPOINT)" (141)
  "MATTAMY (ABERDEEN HEIGHTS)" (127)
  "MATTAMY (YORKVILLE)" (94)
// a naive ranking shows at most 141 — 15th place. Reality: 5th.

What you get

1

Entity resolution

Divisions, LPs, numbered companies and name variants unified into real businesses — conservatively. A false merge costs trust; borderline cases go to review, never auto-merged.

2

Movement, not just size

Reps don't need to be told who's big. They need who's accelerating, who's new to the market, and who's slowing — we store history so trends are real, not guessed.

3

Honest data

Every source has lag. We measure and publish ours per municipality. If a number can't be defended, it doesn't ship.

See your territory first.

Send us your region and product category. You'll get a one-page snapshot of contractor activity in your market — free, specific, and yours to keep.

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