Shovels captures the first signal of construction—using AI to turn fragmented permit data into Shovel-ready intelligence. Access via API, web app, or direct data warehouse integration.
Because you want to get insights from building permits, not wrangle with raw data.
Our data is Shovel-ready
We make building permits easy to understand and use for market research, go-to-market, and sales. No data engineering required.
We offer three interfaces to interact with our building permit, contractor, and government decision data.
Purchase single or multiple seats to explore and download our building permit, contractor, and local government decision data.
Automate access and integrate with other applications like CRMs, custom web apps, and more.
Get parquet files or private table shares into Snowflake, Databricks, or Big Query.
We write about building permits, contractors, government decisions, and the future of the built environment.
Meet the Shovels CLI
The Shovels CLI gives developers and AI agents direct terminal access to U.S. building permit and contractor data. One binary, zero friction, structured JSON output.
VP of Marketing
How to Find Construction Leads Using Building Permit Data
An end-to-end guide to contractor lead generation using Shovels. We cover how building permit data surfaces your best prospects earlier and with greater precision than any purchased list.
Senior Marketing Manager
Where Does Shovels Data Come From? Meet the Source Column
A guide to the Source column in the Shovels data dictionary, what "Provided by jurisdiction," "Enhanced by Shovels," and "Created by Shovels" actually mean, and why it matters for how you use the data.
VP of Growth
