You don't pay for the data.
You pay to be first.
Chicago's permit, license, and violation feeds are free and public. What you can't get from the raw feed: same-day delivery, trade-and-territory filtering, and a verified phone number. That's what the tiers below buy.
- Feeds: permits only
- Geography: citywide
- Speed: weekly digest, 3-day delay
- Volume: 10 alerts/week
- Delivery: email only
- Seats: 1
- Feeds: permits only
- Geography: 1 trade + 1 community area
- Speed: daily morning digest
- Filters: trade, min project value
- Volume: 150 alerts/mo
- Delivery: email
- Seats: 1
- Feeds: permits + new business licenses
- Geography: up to 5 wards / areas
- Speed: near-real-time, checked hourly, delivered <1 hr
- Filters: + permit type, project-value threshold, keyword
- Volume: 1,000 alerts/mo
- Delivery: email + webhook
- Seats: 1
- Feeds: all 3 — permits, licenses, violations
- Geography: citywide
- Speed: real-time push, <15 min
- Filters: everything + violation type
- Volume: 5,000 alerts/mo
- Delivery: email + webhook + read API
- Seats: 3
- Feeds: all 3, citywide
- Speed: real-time push, <15 min
- Volume: 5,000 alerts/mo
- Delivery: email + webhook + read API
- Seats: 3
- Enrichment: 1,000 verified records/mo included
Enrichment add-on — turn an address into a callable lead
A permit record gives you an address and a name — no phone, no email. Enrichment turns it into a callable lead: verified phone + owner name, spot-checked, delivered within 24 hours.
- +$99/mo on top of Foreman or GC Pro
- 250 verified records/mo included — overage at $0.40/record
- Credit refunded when no verified phone is found. We never charge for a guess.
Never charge for a guess.
Enriched Pro ($349/mo) bundles 1,000 enrichments/mo instead — same add-on, volume discount on overage ($0.30/record).
Annual = 2 months free (16.7% off, paid up front): Hammer $290/yr · Foreman $990/yr · GC Pro $2,490/yr · Enriched Pro $3,490/yr · enrichment add-on $990/yr.
Chicago construction slows in winter — annual locks your rate and keeps alerts coming through the off-season.
14-day Foreman trial: no credit card required, auto-downgrades to the free Scout tier at the end — never auto-charges. The hook is the delay: free shows you the data exists; the trial shows speed matters.
Don't want a subscription? Buy the quarter.
Clean quarterly files for B2B sales teams, suppliers, and investors who'd rather buy a file than subscribe. Delivered as CSV within 48 hours; licensed for internal use, one seat. No freshness guarantee past the quarter boundary — that's what subscriptions are for.
| List | Contents | Price |
|---|---|---|
| New business licenses — full quarter, enriched | Every new license filed that quarter, verified phone where available | $499 |
| Permits by trade — full quarter, enriched | One trade vertical (e.g., all roofing permits), enrichedFiltered to your trade’s permit types | $399 |
| Violation-based distress list — full quarter | Properties with new building violations, for investors/wholesalers | $349 |
| Custom slice | Single trade + single month, or custom geography | $299 min |
| Raw (unenriched) quarterly list | The loss-leader — priced to convert into subscriptions | $99–149 |