Groundwork vs Permit Ledger
Same price, different product. Their $39 tier is a statistics dashboard. Ours is a list of job sites with addresses.
$39/mo flat/No per-lead charge/Cancel in one click
Permit Ledger — $39/mo
- Total permits, week-over-week trend, top permit type — city by city
- No individual addresses in the $39 tier. Not on the free page, not behind the paywall
- Top ZIP codes and most-active contractors — i.e. who is already winning the work
- 306 cities live, all sourced from official open-data feeds
- Their data pages say permit records carry no owner phone or email, and tell you to go skip-trace the address yourself
Groundwork — $39/mo
- Individual job sites: address, scope, valuation and the permit number
- A map link and a street-view link on every lead
- Owner-pulled filter in the City of San Diego — an individual, one property, no contractor named on the permit
- Jurisdictions with no open-data feed at all, read from their own portals or published permit reports
- Parcel numbers are on the leads, and that is the join we use for owner contact
A contractor cannot bid "top ZIP codes". Counts and trend lines are market intel; they tell you which part of town is busy, not whose door to knock on. If you want the dashboard, theirs is good and it covers 306 cities. If you want the jobs, you need the addresses, and at $39 they do not sell them.
Fair to them: they cover 306 cities and we cover a corner of one county. If you work outside San Diego today, they are the better buy and we will say so.
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Costa Mesa, Fullerton, La Habra, Tustin, Newport Beach, Westminster and Yorba Linda are all new permits — those cities do not publish who pulled the permit, so we never call them owner-pulled.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.