Permit intelligence for home-services companies

Every job in your market leaves a permit. We read all of them.

TopTier LTV turns public construction-permit records into a clear picture of your territory: what work is being done, how old the installed equipment is, and who is winning it. Start with your territory. It’s free.

Get your territory scored See what’s in it

Every furnace, water heater and panel was permitted on a date. That date is a clock, and we can read it for every house on the street.illustrative

4.29M

permit records analyzed across 11 markets — real jobs, real dates, real properties

contractor by contractor

who pulled each permit, where and when — and how share moves quarter over quarter

graded, not guessed

every number carries its evidence grade, and the records behind it come with it

Source: TopTier LTV analysis of public state & municipal construction-permit records across 11 markets (retrieved Sep 2026; a point-in-time snapshot, not a live feed). Full sourcing appears in every territory table.

What is actually happening in my market?

Three questions every home-services business asks

Different words, the same three unknowns — and the public record answers each one.

“Who’s winning the work around us?”

Every permit names the contractor who pulled it. We count them zip by zip and quarter by quarter, so you see your own share, who is gaining on you, and where.

Flat for you, falling for last year’s leader, and a rival climbing two points a quarter. The public record shows that move as it happens, one quarter at a time.illustrative

“How much work is coming?”

Equipment ages on a schedule. A permit dates the furnace, the AC, the water heater, the panel and the roof at the address, so we can size how much of your territory’s installed base is entering its replacement years, task by task — the demand behind next season, before it arrives.

A 2011 permit puts this furnace inside its replacement window today. Nobody had to guess.illustrative

“Should we expand, and where?”

Past a certain radius a repair call stops paying for the drive; a replacement still does. We show how much work sits in each ring around your base, what kind it is, and who is already doing it, so the next location or the next truck goes where the work is.

Rings at 10, 20 and 30 miles, with the homes entering the replacement window in each. The far ring still holds work worth a truck — if the job is a replacement.illustrative

What you get

Three deliverables, all from public records. The first is free.

Your territory, scored Free

A task-by-task table for your service area: permit volume and trend for each thing you sell, how much of the installed base is entering its replacement years, how that work spreads by distance, and who’s winning share around you. Every cell carries its evidence grade. No data from you required.

Replacement demand isn’t spread evenly across a territory: it piles up where equipment went in during the same years. The score counts how much of yours sits in that band right now.illustrative

Market and competitor tracking Quarterly

The same table, refreshed every quarter: your share of permits against named competitors in every zip you serve, who is gaining, which job types are rising, and which new contractors have started pulling permits in your market.

The records behind it With every table

Cleaned, de-duplicated permit records for your territory — job type, date, property, valuation where the jurisdiction reports it, and the contractor of record — so your own team can check our work and build on it.

What it is

Not an agency and not a software project. The clearest read of your market the public record can give.

Facts, graded

Every number is labelled measured, modelled or benchmark, and we tell you what the record can’t see: jurisdictions that under-permit, and work done without a permit. If a number is weak, the table says so.

Nothing to integrate

No data from you and no new login. The territory table is built entirely from public records, and it arrives as a table and a walkthrough with your team.

Your own books show you your customers. The permit record shows you everyone else’s.

If you’re the sponsor

You own several brands across several territories. The same share and demand numbers, computed the same way everywhere, show which brands are gaining ground, which markets are under-served, and which independent operators are growing fastest — before the next location or the next acquisition conversation.

Which of our markets is growing, and who is taking it? is a permit-record question.

Sawyer

Meet Sawyer

So why a bear with a carpenter’s pencil?

The name? A sawyer read the timber. Walking the stand, he knew which tree was ready this season and which needed another ten years — and everything built downstream depended on him getting that right. It’s an old trade name, same family as Cooper, Mason and Smith. Knowing which ones are ready is exactly the job we do on your territory.

The pencil? It comes out before the saw does. Measure twice, cut once — and that is the product, almost literally: measure the territory before you commit a truck, a hire or a new location to it. Every decision downstream is only as good as that first measurement.

And the copper apron? That’s the metal running through every home you serve — and around here it’s the colour of the only thing we ask to be judged on: numbers you can trace back to a public record.