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Building permit leads

Building permit leads, turned into a daily sales queue

Radar reads building permit activity every day and ranks it into one queue your outside reps can work — instead of another portal to check by hand.

Daily permit ingestionScored queueTeam visibility

Free during the beta. No card required. We confirm your territory and get your reps into the queue.

Tell us where your team sells. We'll confirm source coverage for that territory and get your reps into the queue.

Turn local permits into sales conversations

A permit gives your rep a project to investigate and a reason to call. Review the record, find the material buyer, and ask about the next package. Radar keeps the project and follow-up in one team queue.

  1. Review project type, stage, and delivery territory.
  2. Verify the builder and the person responsible for materials.
  3. Ask which package is open and when delivery is needed.
  4. Assign a rep and record the next action and review date.

Why lumberyards move off manual permit pulls

A building permit is a takeoff someone is about to quote. It is only worth something if a rep gets to the builder first. Radar turns a daily data pull into a ranked queue your team already knows how to work.

Skip the portal grind

Radar ingests supported public permit records every day, so reps stop repeating the same city-portal searches by hand.

Rank, not just list

Radar ranks each project by profitability potential and deal size — project value, housing units, and permit activity in the cluster — instead of handing reps a raw permit dump. Every ranking carries an explanation a rep can inspect.

One queue for the whole team

All, Mine, and Team views show what is open, what a rep owns, and what a teammate already claimed — no more two reps chasing the same address.

Log the next action, not just the address

Claim a project, log activity, and move it through deal statuses with notes. The pipeline is tracked next to the lead and stays with the company, not in a separate notebook.

What are building permit leads?

Building permit leads are sales opportunities identified from newly filed public building permits — new construction, additions, and major remodels that will need framing lumber, sheathing, and other building materials. Radar ingests supported permit records daily and turns them into a scored, ranked queue instead of a raw list a rep has to interpret one address at a time.

How this differs from pulling permits yourself

A manual permit pull is a snapshot search: open the city portal, filter by date, read through records one by one. Radar runs that every day, screens out what your yard cannot serve, and ranks what is left by what it is worth chasing — so the rep opens a queue instead of a portal. See how the daily queue works inside Radar.

Manual vs. Radar

What changes when permit leads are ranked, not raw

A permit portal gives every lumberyard the same public records. The advantage is what happens after the data lands: ranking by what is worth chasing, team visibility, and a pipeline that is actually tracked.

CapabilityManual portal searchRadar
Finding new activitySearch city permit portals by hand, project by projectDaily ingestion delivers new activity into one queue
PrioritizationEvery record looks the same until you read itRanked by profitability potential and deal size, with a reason a rep can inspect
Team coverageReps duplicate effort on the same addressesClaimed leads are visible team-wide in real time
Follow-up trackingSticky notes, spreadsheets, and memoryReview, activity, nurture, disqualify, and handoff states
Which permits actually matter

The biggest permit on the list is not always the one worth chasing

Ranking is a filtering decision, not a size contest.

A high stated project value does not make a project a good fit. A job outside your delivery radius, in a category the yard does not serve well, or on an account that has never bought at a workable margin can absorb more sales attention than it returns — and it consumes estimating and delivery capacity you would rather spend somewhere else.

Radar ranks on lumber-sale logic — buy-timing, package size, and who actually purchases — so a rep is choosing between projects that plausibly fit the yard instead of scrolling a list sorted by permit value.

What happens next is still a judgment call, and it gets recorded: claimed, nurtured, disqualified with a reason, or handed off. Across a week that record is what tells a sales leader which parts of a territory were genuinely reviewed rather than assumed covered — without asking anyone for a status update.

FAQs

Answers for lumberyard sales leaders

Common questions about building permit leads and how Radar's daily queue works.

What are building permit leads?

Building permit leads are sales opportunities identified from newly filed public building permits — new construction, additions, and major remodels that will need framing lumber, sheathing, and other building materials. Radar ingests supported permit records daily and turns them into a scored, ranked queue instead of a raw list a rep has to interpret.

What's different from pulling permits yourself?

A manual permit pull is a snapshot search — a rep opens the city portal, filters by date, and reads through records one by one. Radar runs that every day, screens out what your yard cannot serve, and ranks what's left by what it is worth chasing, so the rep opens a queue instead of a portal.

What area does Radar cover today?

Coverage depends on the territory and source records available for review. Tell us where your team sells; we confirm source coverage and help you get started when the fit is right.

Is a Radar lead a qualified buyer?

A permit record is a starting point, not a qualified buyer — Radar ranks reachable opportunity and the rep still validates builder and applicant identity before acting. The score supports triage; it does not replace sales judgment.

How often does the queue update?

Permit ingestion and scoring run daily, so newly filed activity in a covered territory shows up in the queue the next business day rather than waiting on a manual portal check.

Does Radar replace our CRM or ERP?

No. Radar is a sourcing queue for outside sales, not a system of record. It does not replace your ERP or CRM, and Radar and LumberFlow Procurement are separate products with separate workflows.

Tell us where your team sells. We'll confirm source coverage for that territory and get your reps into the queue.

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See building permit leads ranked in Radar

Free during the beta. No card required. We confirm your territory and get your reps into the queue. Tell us where your team sells. We'll confirm source coverage for that territory and get your reps into the queue.

Daily permit ingestion
Ranked by deal size, with the reason
Shared team queue