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: 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
Or start free with Scout — weekly digest, permits only, no card.
Enriched Pro — $349/mo
Everything in GC Pro, plus 1,000 verified records a month: verified phone + owner name, delivered within 24 hours. Credit refunded when no verified phone is found.
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.
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. Try Foreman’s hourly alerts free for 14 days.