Permit and Construction Data
Request More InfoShovels provides nationwide building permit and contractor data, parsing and granularly categorizing building permits by type of work and associating contractors to permit to compute quality metrics.
Shovels' competitive advantage is their focus on data quality and completeness.
- Completeness: Shovels uses multiple vendors and their own data extraction expertise to ensure that all permits are gathered from every permitting jurisdiction in our geographies.
- Quality: Permit data is notoriously messy. Shovels goes out of their way to cleanse and normalize data so it is easy to consume.
- Science: Shovels layers multiple datasets to discover new statistical relationships between permits, contractors, and properties.
- Recency: Shovels processes millions of new records every month.
At Shovels, we make building permit data useful. We continuously track, normalize, and categorize hundreds of millions of building permit records across the country. Shovels enables our customers to explore, profile, and derive actionable insights from our database of residential, commercial, and contractor records. Shovels is headquartered in Silicon Valley and backed by Coelius Capital, Founders Network Fund, and Mission One Capital.