The earliest public signal for a commercial project is a filing at a local planning or zoning board: months before permits, and long before it reaches conventional construction databases. Buried inside is everyone a contractor needs to call: the developer, the attorney, the engineer of record. FirstDirt finds it first.
A project goes on the record. It's in your pipeline the same week.
Your BD team walks in already knowing everyone in the room.
Design is underway. The relationships are already set.
Everyone else finds out. The short list already exists.
FirstDirt tracks every jurisdiction in your market and surfaces commercial projects at their first public appearance: before permits, long before any bid database.
Every lead names the people behind the project, what they're asking for, and when it's being decided, all linked to the public record. No researcher required.
A ranked pipeline and a forward hearing calendar: the tab your BD team opens every morning, while the project is still on paper.
FirstDirt reads planning and zoning dockets across every jurisdiction in your metro, refreshed nightly. A commercial project enters your pipeline at its first public appearance: before a single permit exists, 6–24 months before it reaches a bid database.
Developers file behind single-project shell LLCs. FirstDirt matches the SPV on the filing to the real company behind it: a developer with a name, a track record, and a front door.
Most contact data is matched to a company after the fact, which is how you end up calling the wrong person. Our proprietary matching runs the other direction, pulling the people off the filing itself: the developer, the attorney, the engineer of record. Work email and phone only where we can verify them, each tied back to the public record.
Every lead is scored against your trades, project types, and sweet spot, so the pipeline opens with your best-fit work on top. Your team's feedback tunes it.
New leads sync straight to HubSpot and arrive in a weekly digest, with a forward hearing calendar so you always know what's being decided next.
Digging now: planning and zoning dockets across metro-Atlanta jurisdictions, refreshed nightly.
Digging now: Metro Nashville–Davidson, Franklin, and Gallatin dockets, refreshed nightly. Founding beta seats open.
Negotiated work is won early. By the time a project shows up in bid databases, the relationships are formed and the short list is set. The zoning hearing is 6–24 months earlier: early enough to be first in the room.
The signal was always public. Reading it wasn't practical. Thousands of jurisdictions publish public notice in inconsistent formats. Incumbent services solve it with rooms of researchers and charge accordingly. FirstDirt reads all of it.
We're onboarding a small number of contractors metro by metro, starting in the Southeast. Tell us your market and your trade. If it's open, you'll hear back fast.