From raw public record to decision-ready intelligence.
Buildvane is an intelligence pipeline, not a call center. Here's how two public-record signals — new permits and new home sales — become a short, ranked, trade-specific brief of the demand worth your week. The hours of record-reading you don't have time for, done for you.
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Source the authoritative record
We build on authoritative primary-source public records — construction and demolition permits, and county deed & sale records — continuously, across every market we cover. The provenance institutional buyers expect, without the institutional price tag.
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Classify by trade or vertical
Every record is read and classified — permits by trade (pools, roofing, solar, HVAC, foundation, new construction, demolition, and more), home sales by home-service fit (lawn, pest, cleaning, and more) — so your feed contains only the work you sell into. A model does the first-pass classification; every record is verified before it ships.
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Dedupe to one record
A single job or parcel can throw off several records. We collapse them to one clean row, so the count you see is honest and you're never paying for the same lead twice.
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Verify & enrich
We confirm address, type, and date, and resolve the firm building each project — attaching a direct phone for most projects in markets where contact data is available. The new-homeowner list is address-level and direct-mail-ready — no phone or email. Contact depth by market is published openly on the coverage page.
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Rank & deliver
The classified, deduped, verified records are ranked and land in your inbox as a clean feed. The permit feed is weekly; the new-homeowner list is periodic — refreshed each time the county posts, roughly quarterly. Never sold as real-time.
Why the earliest signal is the valuable one
The moment demand becomes knowable is also the moment it's most valuable — the week the permit posts, or the month a new owner moves in — before the trucks arrive, before it hits a bid board, before anyone else has called. Legacy platforms surface it late and bury it in a database you have to mine. Buildvane's edge is catching that signal early, ranking it into a decision-ready shortlist, and handing it to you across every trade in your market.
What this is — and isn't
This is early-signal intelligence from the public record, not a stack of opted-in, pre-qualified leads. On a permit, the contact is usually the firm building the project — some markets carry a direct phone, some carry the firm name. The new-homeowner list is address-level (direct-mail-ready), live in Nashville only, and is a periodic (roughly quarterly) list — not a weekly feed, and we never imply home-service coverage in a market we haven't loaded. Volume varies by trade and city. We show you the real numbers before you pay, and a free 10-row sample lets you check the quality yourself first — so you never have to take our word for any of it.
See the intelligence for your own market
Pick a trade and a metro — real weekly volume, the exact feed, no sales call.