Cretos Forge helps local trades businesses find real work early — starting with the Permit Digest: newly approved building permits in your towns, cleaned up and delivered on the schedule you choose.
See a real sampleSee plans & pricingEvery week, cities and counties publish the building permits they just approved — who's building what, where, and which contractor is on it. It's public, but buried. We pull it, clean it, and email you just the projects that fit your towns and your trade.
Pick your towns, project types, and minimum project size once. Change them any time — changes apply to your next edition.
One digest, three delivery speeds — pick how fresh you need it. See pricing.
We publish what the permits publish: businesses, projects, job-site addresses. We never buy or attach homeowner phone numbers or emails.
This is an old week (June 15–21, 2026), shown on purpose: the format and labels are exactly what subscribers get, but the current week's data is for subscribers.
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Same digest, three delivery speeds. Every plan includes your choice of towns and project types, and you can change plans or cancel any time.
One roundup email a month. Best for keeping a general eye on your market at the lowest cost.
Your filtered edition every Monday morning — fresh enough to act on, at the price most subscribers choose.
New permits on every business day, for businesses that call first and win on speed. Offered only where a source actually publishes daily — starting with Chicago.
Online signup isn't open yet — this preview takes no orders. Daily delivery is never sold for an area whose permits don't publish daily.
"Coverage" is the set of permit offices whose newly issued permits can appear in your digest. If an office is covered, its projects can be matched to your towns and your trade. If it isn't covered yet, those projects won't appear — and we never fill the gap with guesses from neighboring areas.
Every city, village, and county issues its own building permits and publishes them its own way. Some publish clean, searchable records; others publish little or nothing in a form anyone can use reliably.
An office joins the coverage list only after its records have been collected accurately and repeatedly — week after week, not just once. A town gets added when the data holds up, not when it would look good on a map.
The full list of covered offices — named individually, dated, and kept current — gets its own page before signup opens. This homepage stays the overview.
Every row, from every town, arrives in the same columns. When a permit office doesn't publish something, the row says so in plain words — never a silent blank, never a fake zero. The permit office's original wording stays next to our plain-English summary, so you can always check us.