The AI-powered permit pipeline giving Calgary GCs and Subcontractors verified decision-maker phone numbers before projects hit Merx.
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The Problem
Your highly-paid estimators shouldn't be clicking refresh on the City of Calgary website trying to decipher municipal database garbage.
By the time a permit hits public bidding sites, 40 other contractors are already driving the margin down to zero. You are too late.
Generic addresses and "Not Specified" owner fields don't pay the bills. You can't close a deal if you can't reach the decision-maker.
The Solution
While your competitors are guessing, you're already on the phone with the GC.
We cross-reference every permit with the Google Places API to guarantee a 70–100% phone number yield on active permits. We give them the Applicant Name and GC Name — so your first call goes to the right person.
Our AI reads every permit and fires a Priority Score heat-map directly into your dashboard. It flags $500K+ "Whale" projects automatically — so they know exactly who to call first, every Monday morning.
We strip out the ALL-CAPS text, ISO timestamps, and raw GeoJSON, delivering a perfectly formatted, hyperlinked Excel dashboard with navy-blue headers — ready for your Monday morning standup.
To protect the ROI of this data, we cap our network to exactly 2 General Contractors city-wide and 1 Subcontractor per trade, per quadrant. Once those seats are filled, the door is closed and your competitors are waitlisted.
Why Shovel Radar
We're not another CRM or job board. Here's how the alternatives stack up.
| What you need |
SHOVEL RADAR
|
Merx / SEDAR | BuildingConnected | LinkedIn Sales Nav | Manual Scraping |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14-day project lead time | ✓ | Projects already public | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Calgary-specific permit data | ✓ | Only awarded bids | US-focused | ✗ | Raw, messy data |
| Verified direct-dial phone numbers | ✓ 70–100% | ✗ | ✗ | Pay per contact | ✗ |
| AI urgency scoring & whale flags | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Capped user allocation per territory | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| GC name + applicant name on every lead | ✓ | Partial | GC only | ✗ | Often blank |
| Monday-morning delivery, zero manual work | ✓ 3 sec | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | 2+ hrs/week |
Merx tells you what already happened. BuildingConnected is built for American GCs. LinkedIn doesn't know a shovel from a spreadsheet. Only Shovel Radar sees Calgary's construction pipeline before anyone else does.
The ROI Case
A junior estimating coordinator in Calgary costs $70,000 fully loaded. They spend half their week manually monitoring permit boards, making cold calls from incomplete lists, and updating spreadsheets. Shovel Radar delivers what that person produces in 20 hours of work—in 3 seconds, every Monday morning.
"If this pipeline helps you close just one $500,000 contract you would have otherwise missed, the software has paid for itself for the next decade."
We strictly cap access per trade and quadrant to ensure our partners maintain an unfair advantage. Enter your details to check if a seat in your market is still available. If it is, we will send you a live, 30-day data sample to prove the ROI.
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