Your Competitors Are Guessing. You Don't Have To.
Building permit data has been public record for decades. The Territory Intelligence Digest is the first product that packages it into intelligence you can actually use — by trade, by territory, every month.
Most contractors, agents, and investors operate on word of mouth, drive-by observation, and gut feel. They wait for the phone to ring. They cruise neighborhoods. They follow up on leads that are already three calls deep when they arrive.
There’s a better way. It’s been sitting in the county recorder’s office the whole time.
What Building Permits Actually Tell You
Every time a homeowner pulls a permit — for a new roof, an HVAC replacement, an addition, a kitchen renovation — that’s a public record. The county logs it: address, permit type, contractor, valuation, date issued, date finaled.
Taken one at a time, a permit is just paperwork. Aggregated across a territory and filtered by trade, it becomes something else entirely: a real-time map of where work is happening, what kind of work it is, who’s doing it, and where demand is building.
A roofing contractor can see which zip codes have the highest concentration of 25-year-old housing stock — the neighborhoods where roofs are due. An HVAC contractor can identify clusters of aging systems before homeowners even realize they need a replacement. A real estate investor can spot renovation activity concentrating in a zip code months before it shows up in comp data. An agent working investor clients can see where new builds are going in — and where ADU permits are clustering, signaling appreciation potential.
The data is there. The Territory Intelligence Digest is the interpretation layer.
How It Works
Once a month, we pull fresh permit data across all covered territories, process it through role-specific filters, and package the results into your personalized digest portal. The data doesn’t get handed to you raw — it gets translated into the signals that matter for how your business actually works.
After you subscribe, you land in the portal at digest.joshuagadbois.com. From there you choose your role — roofing contractor, HVAC contractor, real estate agent, investor, material supplier — and you get a view built around your actual workflow, not a generic data dashboard.
Each role view has a different structure. Roofing contractors get an action items feed, zip-level activity ranking, a market breakdown by permit type, and an aged housing section that flags neighborhoods with elevated replacement demand. HVAC contractors get similar clustering data with a focus on system age signals and new construction HVAC installs. Agents get a velocity map — permit volume as a proxy for neighborhood activity — plus ADU and addition data. Investors get distressed property signals, renovation clustering, and high-value permit zones. Suppliers get contractor activity rankings by volume, so they know who to call and when.
The Territories
Right now the Digest covers eight territories:
- King County, WA
- Snohomish County, WA
- Pierce County, WA
- Island County, WA
- Thurston County, WA
- Travis County, TX (Austin area)
- Maricopa County, AZ (Phoenix)
- Dallas County, TX
One subscription gets you all roles and all territories. You’re not locked into a single view or a single market. If you work across multiple counties or want to compare market activity, it’s all in the same portal.
Who This Is For
The Territory Intelligence Digest was built for people who are serious about their territory. Not the contractor who works whatever comes in — the one who wants to own their market. Not the agent who follows trends — the one who wants to spot them six months early. Not the investor who scrolls Zillow — the one who wants to see what’s happening on the ground before it prices in.
If you rely on referrals, paid ads, or cold outreach with no data behind it, the Digest gives you a targeting layer that most of your competitors don’t have. You’re not just calling — you’re calling the right neighborhoods at the right time with a specific reason to reach out.
If you’re a supplier, you’re not guessing which contractors are active. You’re looking at permit volume and calling the ones pulling work right now.
Founding Member Pricing
The Digest is $69 per month, and founding member pricing locks in that rate for as long as you stay subscribed. As more territories come online and the platform matures, pricing will reflect that. Founding members keep what they locked in.
Right now the Digest is open to pilot members. Request a pilot and I’ll set you up with your trade and territory. The portal is live with real data from the current month.
The data is public record. The interpretation is the product. The question is whether you want it before your competitors do.
— Territory Intelligence Digest is $69/month — full access to all roles and territories, founding member pricing locked in. Request a pilot →