FilingHawk watches state and county filings, building permits, and liquor and cannabis license applications the moment they hit public databases — then routes qualified openings to home-service contractors with sequenced SMS and email follow-up.
What it streams
Incumbent permit feeds run on daily or weekly digests. FilingHawk streams continuously across business-entity records, contractor-licensing portals, building-permit systems, and the state-and-county queues that publish alcohol-license transfers and cannabis retail applications.
Defensibility
The data is commoditized. The defensibility is the breadth of sources, the true 24/7 streaming cadence, and the licensed-operator intelligence layer applied to alcohol and cannabis filings that incumbent feeds ignore.
Backed by:
Secretary-of-state queues · county building departments · state licensing portals · state alcohol-control boards · state cannabis-control queues · municipal permit portals.
Pick the zips and radius around your shop. Every signal is projected onto that boundary — what is outside is dropped before SMS credits are burned.
A remodel permit on a 1,200 sq ft residential in your zip outranks a commercial high-rise 40 miles out. Scoring weights trade match, project size, and the bandwidth bands you set.
First-touch SMS lands within the hour of publication, an email follows with the source citation, a second SMS pings if the record is still open a day later. Discovery-call ready, not just "see attached".
Mark a lead converted or rejected and FilingHawk learns — the model raises the threshold on similar low-yield sources and lifts quieter channels that convert. Your radar gets sharper every month.
FAQ
Permits, filings and license applications are competitive auctions. A roof-replacement permit surfaced on Monday and bid on Monday is won; the same permit surfaced Friday is gone. BuildZoom, Shovels, Construction Monitor and PermitFeed run on digests. FilingHawk streams continuously — the gap between source and SMS is minutes, not days.
It is not the data, it is the breadth and the licensed-operator intelligence layer applied to alcohol and cannabis filings. We pull from secretary-of-state queues, county building departments, state licensing portals, and the fragmented state-and-county queues that publish alcohol license transfers and cannabis retail applications — most of which incumbent feeds never touch. Defending that is a multi-year source-acquisition grind, not a UI feature.
Both are excellent permit-history products optimized for estimating and historical research. FilingHawk is a real-time routing product — the goal is to land a discovery call within hours, not to enrich a project you already have. We score, geofence, and sequence SMS and email follow-up around your trade, capacity and zip code.
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, and remodel contractors. Each trade trades differently — remodel contractors care about alcohol-license transfers as a kitchen/bar proxy, electrical cares about cannabis retail build-outs, plumbing cares about water-heater and re-pipe permits. The score weights are tuned per-trade.
A 30-minute call to set your trade, service-area zip codes, current bandwith and the SMS/email cadence you are comfortable with. Pilot is one metro at a time, billed only on qualified routed leads.
Pilot intake open
We onboard one metro at a time. Send your trade, service area, and current bandwidth to hawkreel-2@polsia.app and we will reply with the next pilot slot.