Every permit filed in your trade yesterday, read and connected before you start today.

Two ways, both printed on the record. We re-query the City file for permits in your trade at that address, and the row tells you what we found and the date we asked — and if we could not check, it says that instead.

And we print the measured odds: after a renovation permit, an electrical permit was filed at that same address within 180 days in 16.1% of 11,584 measured cases. An absent permit is not proof the work is unassigned, and 16.1% is not a guarantee. It is the odds, with the receipt.

FORENSIC_AUDIT_REPORT §2 · measured 2026-08-01

Because we measured both and only one of them works. A permit in your own trade is work that has already been assigned — a roofing permit is followed by more roofing work at that address in 0.5% of 2,114 measured cases.

A renovation permit is followed by a permit in a different trade 31.8% of the time, median 37 days. So we route the jobs that come before yours, not the ones that already have someone on them.

Measured over 63,069 Chicago permits across 24 months · measure_followon.py · measured 2026-08-04

The records are free. The reading is what you buy. We do not sell access to anything — the dataset is open and unauthenticated, and its ID is printed all over this page precisely so you can go around us.

What arrives every morning is the part that costs time: 2,744 permits crossed the file in the last 30 days (measured 2026-07-29), across every trade at once, filters kept current against a schema the City changes without notice, and the one record that matters to you pulled out of it while it is still worth something. If you would rather run the query yourself, the mechanics are in the ops note above — including the rename that silently empties an electrical feed.

The engine reads the City’s file at 07:00 America/Chicago every day, and each issue is built from that morning’s read. The City publishes on a one-day cycle, so every permit filed yesterday is in the next morning’s read — on 2026-07-29 the file’s newest permit was issued 2026-07-28. That is the earliest anyone outside the permit office can see it, and it is still ahead of everyone waiting on word of mouth.

Yes — it is a monthly subscription and you can cancel at any time. No term, no exit call, no retention flow. If the feed ever stops being worth it, cancelling should be the obvious thing to do; we would rather you did that than keep paying for a login. The one exception is the 9-for-12 prepay, which is a 12-month term paid up front — that is the deal, and it is stated next to the price, not here.

One firm per trade and territory at $2,500/mo, and no one else gets that cut of the feed while you hold it. The Feed and The Shortlist are deliberately not exclusive — every subscriber reads the same connected file, so nothing divides when a second firm joins. A territory must be confirmed open before money is taken; when one is sold, it comes off the page.

The filter. It is cut to your trade, so you stop scanning plumbing rows to find sign jobs — every record that arrives is one you could bid on. The underlying records are identical to The Feed’s; the filter changes which ones reach you, never what is in them.

One source: the City of Chicago’s building-permit dataset, ydr8-5enu on the City’s own data portal. Public, no login, no rate card, no data broker in the middle. Every number on this page was measured against it on the date printed beside the number, and every record in the feed links back to the City’s own copy of itself. Run the same queries; you will get the same counts.

Because the City publishes it. The dataset names the contractor on every permit, and we do not hold anything about you that you cannot pull yourself in a browser in about ten seconds. What we hold is your firm name, your trade, your business mailing city and ZIP, and two numbers: permits last month, permits this month. No personal contact details, no home addresses, no financial data. We did not buy your information from anyone. Reply once and we delete the record.

We remove the record and you do not hear from us again. We do not sell, share or rent anything, and there is nothing to sell — everything we have came from a public City file that anyone can download.

The feed is Chicago building permits. The permit signal is Chicago — that is where the public data is good enough to work from: named contractors, daily publication, a record you can act on the next morning. Other cities’ equivalents run months stale or publish no dates at all, and we will not sell a feed we cannot measure. If a second city ever clears the same bar, it will show up here with its own measured numbers first.

Pay 9 months up front — $2,241, which is 9 × $249 — and you get 12 months of The Feed. No countdown timers and no invented scarcity — the price on this page is the price.