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.
By the Time a Permit Is Filed, It's Too Late. The Shovels Decisions API Beta Is Live.
Shovels Decisions API Beta is live. Track zoning approvals, rezonings, and planning commission decisions across 600+ cities and nearly 200,000 records, months before permits are filed. Phase two of the ReZone acquisition.
VP of Marketing
What Is a Parcel Map?
A parcel map is an official county record showing land parcel boundaries and APNs. Learn what parcel maps include, how to read one, and where to find it.
Senior Marketing Manager
Shovels Partners with Precisely to Connect Building Permit Data with the World's Leading Property and Location Datasets
Shovels has joined Precisely's Data Link partner program, connecting 150M+ address-resolved U.S. building permits to Precisely's authoritative location, property, demographic, boundary, and risk datasets via persistent identifiers. The integration helps teams reduce data-wrangling and accelerate underwriting, site selection, competitive intelligence, and lead generation with pre-linked permit and property data.
VP of Marketing
