FirstDirt

Find commercial construction projects, and the people behind them, before ground breaks.

A commercial project's first public sign is a planning or zoning filing, months before a permit. FirstDirt reads them nightly and names who's behind each one.

14 days, no card · Atlanta and Nashville
Featured projects · updated nightly

Taking shape right now.

Real filings from public planning dockets. Open one for the context and its public source; unlock the people when you're ready.

Where do you build?
What do you chase? optional

Pick any. It re-orders the list and says why: a possible fit read from the filing's own facts, never a confirmed scope.

14 days free · no card
WHY EARLY MATTERS: YOUR PIPELINE STARTS PRE-PERMIT
FIRSTDIRT STARTS HERE MONTH 0

First public filing

A project goes on the record. It's in your pipeline the same week.

WEEKS IN

Public hearing

Your BD team walks in already knowing everyone in the room.

PERMIT FEEDS START HERE MONTHS IN

Permits

Design is underway. The relationships are already set.

BID DATABASES START HERE 6–24 MONTHS IN

Out to bid

Everyone else finds out. The short list already exists.

Where we're digging

ATLANTA · LIVE

Metro Atlanta

Planning and zoning dockets across metro Atlanta. Read nightly.

NASHVILLE · LIVE

Metro Nashville

Metro Nashville–Davidson, Franklin, Gallatin and Smyrna. Read nightly.

Coverage grows by platform, not by county. See the map, or tell us your market if it isn't here yet.

Try it free, then claim a seat.

FREE TRIAL

14 days, no card

Your metro, refreshed every night. Reveal the people on up to 10 projects during the trial. Every project links to its public packet.

FOUNDING SEAT

$200 a month, per metro

For the first 10 seats in a metro, then $800. Never more than 4 seats per trade per metro, and we never evict a paying seat. How the seat model works.

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