Groundwork vs Construction Monitor
Construction Monitor has sold national permit data since the 1980s. It is a bigger, older, more expensive version of a list — and it does not filter out the jobs a contractor already won.
Construction Monitor — from ~$200/mo
- Roughly $200/mo and up, typically sold by territory and by subscription term
- National permit coverage with a long history behind it
- Delivered as lists and reports — every permit, contractor-pulled ones included
- Sales-led: you talk to someone before you find out your price
- 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
- Capped at 15 a week, ranked residential-first so a $2.8M lab fit-out does not eat 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
The short version
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.
What you get here for $39
- Up to 15 job sites every Tuesday — about $2.60 a lead.
- Address, scope, valuation, permit number, map, street view on each one.
- ${list(tierNames('A').map(escapeHtml))} leads are owner-pulled: an individual, one property, no contractor named on the permit.
- ${list(tierNames('B').map(escapeHtml))} are all new permits — those cities do not publish who pulled the permit, so we never call them owner-pulled.
- 77 qualified job sites a week citywide as of 2026-08-06. Real count, 7-day window.
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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 Tuesday email goes out through Resend.