Every permit a county issued is a contractor lead worth $10,000s in potential revenue: the address, the value of the work, and who is doing it. Searching is free. Ten rows free on a key. Then 3 cents a lead, by key or by wallet.
Search your areaNo seat. No contract. No sales call. Cancel by not calling.
The numbers are free. See how many permits were issued and the dollars of work behind them before you decide whether leads worth $10,000s each are worth three cents.
Permit number, address, parcel, value, issue date, contractor, owner where lawful. Whether the county runs Accela, Tyler, or a clerk's spreadsheet.
A permit is a lead for a season. Rows land the day the county publishes them, from the office's own feed or its own file, with the source file beside every row.
Ten leads free on a key every month. Then 3 cents each. A town is a few dollars a month for leads worth $10,000s in potential revenue. Agents pay per call with no account at all.
Every row comes from a permit office in the United States, asked one office at a time, cleaned here, and kept with its source file. Public records, by the public records law of each state, in one shape.
The photographs on this page are public-domain federal photographs of homes being built in Greenbelt, Maryland, in 1936, from the Library of Congress.
White Tape{
"jurisdiction_id": "166362",
"permit_number": "B-2026-01432",
"permit_type": "Residential building",
"address": "14 Spa Creek Ln", "city": "Annapolis", "state": "MD", "zip": "21401",
"parcel_id": "02-000123456",
"contractor_name": "Smith Builders LLC",
"value": 865000,
"issue_date": "2026-10-14",
"source_file": "annapolis-2026-10.csv", "read_on": "2026-10-27"
}
GET https://api.monarcbuild.com/permits?state=MD&value_min=50000 with a key in Authorization: Bearer, or with no key and an x402 payment. Nothing else is ever returned.
Counties and towns on the list, every one that issues permits.
A lead. A permitted job runs $10,000 to $100,000 of work. Ten free a month. No seat, no minimum.
Schema. A Maryland row and a Texas row read the same.
An account is one email. We send a link, the link makes your key, the key is shown once and never stored in the clear. Then you call.
Yes. A permit is a public record. We request them the way each state's public records law allows, and we serve only what the county already makes public.
As fresh as the county. Where an office has a feed or a portal, rows land the day it publishes. Where it sends a file, rows land the day the file does. Every row carries the day it was read.
The search tells you. We hold what we hold, and we say so before any payment. Ask for your county and it moves up the list.
Yes. Call with no key and the API answers 402 with the price. A wallet pays in USDC, the call is made again, the rows come down. The standard is x402; the page for it is whitetape.io/402.
Contractor leads worth $10,000s in potential revenue. Free to search. Ten free. Three cents after that.
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