FAQ

Lead lists

What does a verified B2B lead list include?

Company names, contact names, titles, emails, phone numbers, websites, and LinkedIn URLs, delivered as CSV and Excel. Every company is checked against its live website before delivery, and you get a verification report showing what was confirmed for each row and what wasn't.

How do you verify?

I open each company's website and confirm it's live and operating. Directory-only entries get flagged as lower confidence instead of being passed off as verified. Emails come only from public sources — company websites and public directories. I don't guess or generate addresses.

What if you can't find enough matches?

I'll tell you before delivering and we'll adjust the scope. I'd rather deliver 380 real leads than 500 padded ones.

Permit leads

Where does the permit data come from?

The cities' own open records: Philadelphia's L&I permits through OpenDataPhilly, and Chicago's building permits through the city's open data portal. Both feeds update daily. Every row traces back to a real permit the city issued, and the source is named on every cover sheet. These are public records the cities publish for reuse — you're buying the filtering, cleaning, and weekly delivery work, not the records themselves.

How fresh is each drop?

Drops go out Monday and cover permits issued the previous Monday through Sunday. The oldest permit in a drop is at most 13 days old when you get it; most are under a week. The exact date range is printed on the cover sheet.

Does the Philadelphia list include the address of the job?

No — and no current Philadelphia permit list can. The city stopped publishing project addresses, ZIP codes, and job values in its permit data in 2020; every official feed since then leaves those fields blank. What each row does include is the contractor's name and the contractor's published business address, plus what they pulled, in which trade, and when.

Does the Chicago list include the address of the job and the job value?

Yes. The project street address is on every commercial row, and the reported cost — the job value the applicant stated on the filing — is on about three-quarters of commercial rows (median around $147,000 in a recent month). The city publishes no ZIP code on permits, so the file gives the street address, community area, and ward instead. Reported cost is the applicant's own figure, not an audited contract value.

Do permit rows include phone numbers or emails?

No. Neither city's feed publishes them, and I don't invent them. Rows carry what the public record carries. If you want verified contact details for the contractors on your drop, that's my other service — I build verified B2B contact lists, and permit buyers get the standard test batch first like everyone else.

Can I filter my drops by trade, area, or project size?

Yes, on the Four Mondays and Full Quarter packages. Philadelphia: filter to your permit types (building, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, fire suppression, demolition, zoning). Chicago: filter by permit type, community area, and a minimum reported cost. First Drop is the full commercial feed in both cities, so you can see everything before narrowing it.

What counts as "commercial" in the Chicago file?

Chicago doesn't flag permits commercial or residential, so I classify from the city's own work description: a commercial use named in the description (retail, office, warehouse, restaurant, medical, industrial, and similar), a mixed-use project, or a multifamily building of 3+ units. Single-family and 1–2 unit residential work is excluded, and permits whose descriptions don't say what the building is are excluded too rather than guessed at.

What if a week has very few permits?

You get the real count, stated on the cover sheet. Holiday weeks and bad-weather weeks are thinner — that's the data, and I won't backfill with old permits or residential rows to make the file look bigger. If a Philadelphia drop ever comes in under 50 commercial rows, or a Chicago drop under 25, message me and I'll extend your package by a week.

Can you do other cities?

Philadelphia and Chicago are the standing weekly pulls, and New York is next on the build list. For any other metro, ask before ordering and I'll tell you straight whether that city's data supports a weekly drop and what it includes. If it can't support one, I won't sell it.

Ordering

How do I order?

Orders go through Fiverr, which holds the payment in escrow. For lead lists, order the verified B2B lead list gig; for permit leads, start with a single First Drop — $35 for Philadelphia, $45 for Chicago. Questions first: [email protected].

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