Source monitoring
Supported official municipal APIs, open-data layers and permit-statistics pages are checked on a schedule.
Transparent methodology
How municipal records become useful contractor intelligence
PermitProspect is designed to preserve official attribution while making fragmented records easier to search, compare and act on.
Record extraction
Permit numbers, dates, project values, addresses, descriptions, communities and status fields are extracted.
Normalization
Different municipal formats are mapped into one searchable permit schema and duplicate records are detected.
Opportunity classification
Project descriptions are matched to likely trade and service categories without inventing private contact data.
Territory matching
Records are compared against each customer’s municipalities, distance, permit types and project-value rules.
Alert delivery
Qualified opportunities appear in the dashboard and can be delivered by immediate alert or daily digest.
What the score means
Opportunity scores rank relevance—not certainty
A high score can reflect project value, project type, timing, trade fit, development clustering and geographic match. It does not mean a contract is unassigned or guarantee that a customer will win work.
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Strong opportunityResidential cluster · North River
- Six adjacent permits
- $2.1M combined value
- Multiple downstream trades
Data principles
Built around verifiability
Every production record should link to or identify its official municipal source.
Display issue date, first-seen date and last-checked date separately.
Clearly separate official fields from classifications and opportunity recommendations.
Provide a way to report an incorrect classification or stale municipal record.
See the methodology applied to real Nova Scotia examples.
Open the dashboard demo and inspect source-attributed permit records.