Groundwork vs Construction Monitor
Construction Monitor has sold national permit data since the 1980s. It is a bigger, older version of a list — and it does not filter out the jobs a contractor already won.
$39/mo flat/No per-lead charge/Cancel in one click
Construction Monitor — no published price
- No published price. You talk to a salesperson before you find out what it costs you
- National permit coverage with a long history behind it
- Delivered as lists and reports — every permit, contractor-pulled ones included
- Built for suppliers and marketers as much as for contractors
Groundwork — $39/mo
- $39/mo, priced on the page, no call
- Owner-pulled only in the City of San Diego — the jobs with no contractor named on the permit
- Ranked residential-first so a $2.8M lab fit-out does not eat the top of your list
- Verifiable: quote the permit number to the City, or look it up in their open data yourself
- Cancel in one click, no retention call
We print no price for Construction Monitor. Their site refuses our requests, so we have never been able to read one, and the figures in circulation come from another competitor describing them — which is not a source. Ask them what they would charge you, and hold it against the $39 on this page.
The difference is the filter. A full permit feed is mostly jobs a contractor already has. We drop every permit held by a company, and every holder who shows up at more than one address — which is what removes the permit runners too.
Fair to them: national coverage, decades of history, and commercial data we do not have.
What you get here for $39 a month.
One trade, the whole county, every qualifying job every Monday — every job that qualifies, and the bill does not move when the week is busy.
- Every qualifying job for your trade, every Monday — usually a few dollars a lead.
- Address, scope, valuation, permit number, map, street view on each one.
- City of San Diego, Coronado, Vista, Oceanside and Unincorporated San Diego County leads are owner-pulled: an individual, one property, no contractor named on the permit.
- 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Costa Mesa, Fullerton, La Habra, Tustin, Newport Beach, Westminster and Yorba Linda are all new permits — those cities do not publish who pulled the permit, so we never call them owner-pulled.
- 13 qualified job sites a week citywide as of 2026-09-16. Real count, 7-day window.
We publish one of these for every product a contractor asks us about, including the ones that are the better buy outside San Diego.
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.