Groundwork · San Diego, CA ·(760) 464-5105
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San Diego building permitsupdated 2026-08-24

Real permits, filed this week. No contractor named on any of them.

Every Monday: the San Diego job sites where an individual filed a permit at their own property and no contractor is named on it — address, scope, valuation, permit number.

Or call (760) 464-5105 — that is Chad, and he picks up.

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38qualified job sites a week, City of San Diego, owner-pulled
$39a month, flat — an average Angi lead alone is $29.07
29jurisdictions live · 5 owner-pulled, 1 owner-builder flag, 23 all-permits
2026-08-24last measured — City data refreshes daily

Every figure on this page is a real count from the last 7 days, measured 2026-08-24. Precomputed and stored — this page does not call a permit API when you load it. Numbers move week to week; we publish the ones we measured, never a projection.

Do not take our word for it

Every lead carries a permit number. Quote one to the City and see the same record we read — before you spend a dollar.

01Try it free

Three real leads, every Monday, free.

The same owner-pulled permits paying subscribers get, three per week, free. No card, no call, unsubscribe in one click. See the quality, then decide.

02What lands in your inbox
01

Every qualifying job

for your trade, every Monday, across San Diego County.

02

The whole record

address, scope, valuation, permit number, map and street view.

03

Verifiable first

quote the permit number to SD Development Services before you trust us.

04

You pick the work

every job for your trade, and it is up to you which ones are worth bidding.

In the City of San Diego we drop every permit held by a company, and every holder who appears at more than one address — that removes the contractors and the permit runners both. It is why the weekly numbers here are small. They are the real ones.

03What it costs

A month here costs about what one Angi lead costs.

Angi & Thumbtack

  • The average Angi pro pays about $401 a month in lead fees alone — nearer $618 all in
  • That works out at $29.07 an Angi lead. Neither company publishes a rate card
  • Billed per lead, so your busiest month is your most expensive one
  • It is a form fill: 1,879 BBB complaints against Angi Inc in three years, 921 against Thumbtack

Groundwork

  • $39/mo flat — under a tenth of that $401, and it does not move when the week is busy
  • No per-lead charge, no membership fee, no contract
  • Every qualifying job for your trade and region — you decide which are worth bidding
  • It is a building permit with no contractor named on it yet — filed, dated and verifiable by number

Angi figures here are our own arithmetic on Angi Inc's annual filing (Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025), not prices Angi quotes — Angi publishes no rate card. US Lead revenue $587.05M ÷ 20,195,000 Leads = $29.07 a lead; ÷ 122,000 average monthly active pros = about $401 a month per pro on leads, $618 counting all of Angi's US revenue per pro. BBB complaint counts read 12 August 2026.

04This week, by trade
TradeNorth of I-8I-8 and southWhole city
Electrical 9 5 14 $39/mo
Remodel / GC 14 7 21 $39/mo
Plumbing 4 5 9 $39/mo
HVAC 6 4 10 $39/mo

Owner-pulled job sites in the last 7 days, City of San Diego. Solar runs about 1 a week and Roofing runs about 6 a week — too thin to sell, so we don't. Free samples for those trades are still on the site.

05Where we cover

Two honest tiers, because two kinds of city publish two different things.

Tier A · Owner-pulled Filtered to jobs an individual filed at their own property, with no contractor named on the permit. City of San Diego, Coronado, Vista, Oceanside and Unincorporated San Diego County — the only jurisdictions we have found that publish who pulled the permit.

Tier B · All new permits Every new permit filed in the city. These cities do not publish who pulled the permit, so nothing here is ever described as owner-pulled — you get the fresh filing and the address, and you find out who is on it yourself. Carlsbad, Santee, El Cajon, Imperial Beach, Chula Vista, Del Mar, Solana Beach, Encinitas, Escondido, San Marcos, Huntington Beach, Brea, Aliso Viejo, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Lake Forest, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, La Habra, Tustin, Newport Beach, Westminster and Yorba Linda.

Tier A · Owner-builder flag, no name The city records whether the owner is the builder but never names the owner, so the most a lead here can say is that the city recorded the owner as the builder and no contractor is named on the permit. Nothing here is ever called "an individual". Anaheim.

That list is the whole of it. "North" and "south" here mean the two halves of the City of San Diego, split at I-8 — they are not North County and South County. If your work is somewhere not on the coverage page, the feed has nothing for you and you should not subscribe.

Orange County is sold as its own feed since 2026-08-22 — Anaheim, Huntington Beach, Brea, Aliso Viejo, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Lake Forest, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, La Habra, Tustin, Newport Beach, Westminster and Yorba Linda, and not all of Orange County. Electrical · Remodel / GC · Plumbing · HVAC.

Who you're buying from
Chad Vasquez, who runs Groundwork

Chad Vasquez · Groundwork, a Prompt Flow LLC company · San Diego, CA

(760) 464-5105 · chad@promptflowbusiness.com

A small San Diego operation, not a lead-gen call centre. Day job's a fireman; this is the side business. You can phone the number above and I will pick up. Cancel anytime in one click — no retention script, no website upsell. Billing is Stripe; the Monday email goes out through Resend.

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