Built by a Calgary contractor, for Calgary contractors. Trade-routed Excel files covering active permits, AHS inspections, federal contracts, REIT activity, and more — with phone numbers you can dial the same day. Also live in 382 Canadian cities.
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What we deliver
Calgary's building permits, business licences, development applications, zoning, dev incentive programs, and more — directly from the city's open data portal, cleaned + routed by trade.
100 workbooks for Calgary alone.
Provincial health-authority inspections (AHS/Halton/Niagara/etc.), liquor + cannabis registries, professional regulators, lobbyist registries, and more — joined to the city permits.
~250 provincial workbooks layered across every city.
CRA charity returns, federal contract awards, NSERC/CIHR/SSHRC research grants, lobbyist registrations, CBSA border wait times, StatCan industry tables, and more — 813 feeds.
Applies to every customer regardless of city.
Who's this for?
100+ product feeds. Pick your role:
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, drywall, flooring, paint, roofing
Daily new commercial permits routed by trade. Aged-permit service contracts. Failed-inspection rework leads. $79–$179/mo
Architect-of-record matching, GC-velocity tracking
Architect–GC pairings + GC activity leaderboard + DP pipeline + Whale Lists. $399/mo bundle
Kitchen, POS, ventilation, hood, liquor vendors
Restaurant build-outs + AHS failure overlay + liquor licensee directory + closure watch. $349/mo bundle
Equipment dealers, sterile-room fitout, medical millwork
Medical/dental fitout permits + practice TAM + LTC capex + charity-funded clinics. $450/mo bundle
Multi-tenant offices, retail, industrial
Multi-permit portfolios. Tenant-churn signals. Chronic-complaint hotspots. Anchor-tenant arrival alerts. $349/mo bundle
CGL, surety bonds, BI, property
Newly-licensed commercial businesses (30-day CGL window) + $250K+ permits requiring bonds. $149/mo
BD scouting
$500K+ commercial permits + new developers + first-deal builders. $199/mo
Acquisition, BRRRR, value-add multifamily
Tax-appeal repeat addresses + investor-backed permits + REIT activity + zoning change pipeline. $349/mo bundle
Repeat-appellant pipeline
ARB complaint history (commercial / industrial / mixed-use) — repeat-appellant pipeline. $149/mo
High-end appliance, AV, pool, custom cabinetry
$500K+ permits, $250K+ renovations, pool/spa, custom builds — PIPEDA-safe address list. $349/mo bundle
Cameras, alarms, locksmith, fencing
311 break-in signals + fire-safety failures + inspection failure alerts. $199/mo bundle
Asphalt, line-painting, snow removal, parking lots
CMHC housing pipeline + roadway construction + portfolio-operator parking-lot owners. $149/mo bundle
Cleaning, catering, laundry, equipment
250 LTC homes + supportive living facilities with active capex + recurring-service contracts. $179/mo
Racking, dock levellers, OH doors, floor coatings
Industrial capex hitlist — new builds + expansions + fit-outs by quadrant. $199/mo
Masonry, slate/copper, conservation architects
Calgary heritage register + listed-building renovation permits. $279/mo bundle
PSPC, MERX, federal real-property
Federal contract awards + sole-source watch + real-property radar (88 federal buildings, Calgary). $149/mo add-on
Don't see your business above?
Roofing, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, GC, concrete, demolition, drywall, painting, glazing, masonry, low-voltage, signage, solar, security — plus REITs, lenders, insurance, property managers, cleaning, pest, dental, restaurant equipment, hotel FF&E, industrial, telecom, custom residential, pool/spa, heritage, federal procurement, charity capex, and more.
Find your fit →96+ buyer-facing products. Pick yours in 30 seconds.
How it works
Tell us your trade + city. We email a 5-row sample of the freshest commercial permits in your market — exactly how subscribers see it.
No credit card · 1 email · same-day
Pick a vertical bundle (trade/role) or single product. Stack additional cities: 25% off cities 2–3, 10% off city 4 and beyond. Your first data delivery ships within 24 hours.
14-day free trial · cancel anytime
Every Monday: fresh XLSX hits your inbox with new permits, licences, inspections, contracts — already filtered and routed to your trade.
Monday delivery · CASL-compliant
For slower-cadence products (e.g. monthly tax-appeal lists, quarterly CRA returns), if no new records appear we send a brief "checked — nothing new this week" email instead of sending an empty file.
What you actually get
Every Monday we email you a fresh .xlsx with the permits + licences your trade sells into. Open it in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers — works everywhere.
| Address | Trade | Value | Applicant | When to call |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 720 6 Ave SW, Calgary | HVAC | $680,000 | Stuart Olson Ltd | Now |
| 5454 Macleod Trail S | Electrical | $245,000 | Chandos Construction | Now |
| 800 7th Ave SW | Fire Safety | $1,200,000 | PCL Construction | 2 weeks |
| 1411 17 Ave SW, Calgary | Tenant Imp | $180,000 | Bird Construction | Now |
| 600 4 St SW | Signage | $45,000 | EllisDon | 3 weeks |
Preview — actual rows from Calgary Open Data, enriched with Google Places phone lookup and "When to call" trade-phase signal.
Pricing
All prices below are for Calgary. Stack additional cities at 50% off each.
Try a single month
One-time payment. No subscription. Get one XLSX, see if it fits.
Vertical bundle
6-9 products bundled for your trade. Most common entry point.
Founder seat · 2 left
Every product · territory exclusive in one quadrant · 24-mo price lock.
Want a second city? Add Toronto, Vancouver, or any of 382 cities at 50% off the listed price.
Math, not vibes
Punch in your numbers. We'll show break-even and 6-month return.
Break-even at 0.2 deals / month. 6-month cumulative net: $27,906.
Numbers above assume ~50 trade-routed leads / month for vertical bundles. Adjust close-rate slider to match your historical cold→close conversion.
Honest comparison
Three ways the big national platforms fall short for trades selling into a specific Canadian city.
| Shovel Radar | Construction Monitor | ConstructConnect | DIY (open data) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Routed by your trade | ✓ Pre-sorted | ⚠ Manual filtering | ⚠ Manual filtering | ✗ Build it yourself |
| City-curated | ✓ 382 Cdn cities | ⚠ US-focused | ⚠ Big-metro only | ✓ Yes |
| Federal + provincial overlay | ✓ 813 fed + 329 prov | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ DIY-only |
| "When to call" phase signal | ✓ Trade-phased | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Workbook format | XLSX + CSV email | Dashboard login | Dashboard login | JSON/CSV scrape |
| Starting price | $29 single XLSX | $200+/mo | $500+/mo | $0 (your time) |
| Setup time to first lead | Same day | 2-3 weeks | 4-6 weeks | 3-6 months |
Pricing comparisons reflect public-website list pricing as of mid-2026. Volume discounts may apply elsewhere.
No contract
Cancel anytime
CASL-compliant
We never send on your behalf
PIPEDA-safe
Homeowner names stripped
Founder pricing
Locked 24 months
From the founder seats
"I was paying $850/mo for ConstructConnect and it took me 4 hours a week to filter to HVAC-relevant. Shovel Radar emails me the same list in 30 seconds, already filtered. Cancelled CC the week I started."
Dave R.
HVAC contractor · Calgary
"Booked 3 commercial CGL policies in the first month from the new-business permit slice. Pays for itself 6× over. The 30-day window before they renew their first policy is exactly when brokers want to call."
Sarah M.
Commercial insurance broker · Calgary
"The 'When to call' column is the unlock. We stopped wasting time hitting permits the day they were pulled, now we ring HVAC subs at the framing inspection. Conversion rate doubled."
Mike K.
Mechanical sub · Edmonton
Founding cohort, initials shown for privacy. Full case studies on request.
National coverage
Every city that has data in every province and territory is represented — 14,100+ buyer-ready Excel files refreshed weekly.
Don't see your city? Browse all 382 cities →
Full directory
We're seeding our first 5 multi-city subscribers regardless of which Canadian city they pick. Cancel anytime in the 15 days, no card on file required.
Claim a founder seatFAQ
Straight answers. No salesy fluff.
382 Canadian cities and folders across every province and 3 territories — Calgary (anchor), Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal, Edmonton, Ottawa, Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton, London, Winnipeg, Halifax, Saskatoon, Regina, Québec City, plus 351 more. Full list at shovelradar.com/cities/. Federal procurement (CanadaBuys, MERX, federal contract awards) is bundled with every plan at no extra cost.
Permits and licences refresh weekly from the source municipality's open-data portal. Each Excel row carries a "fetched" timestamp so you know exactly when it was pulled — no guessing.
Excel workbooks (.xlsx) with a navy-blue header, alternating row colours, frozen header row. Each workbook is trade-routed — HVAC subs get HVAC-relevant permits, restaurant equipment vendors get hospitality fit-outs. A "When to call" column tells you exactly which construction phase to outreach in.
No. Month-to-month, cancel anytime. The first 5 founding customers globally get a 14-day free trial with no credit card required.
Pick a primary city at full price. Every additional city is 50% off, stackable. Example: Calgary ($349/mo) + Toronto ($174.50/mo) + Vancouver ($174.50/mo) = $698/mo for full coverage across Western and Central Canada. Federal procurement is bundled into the primary city — no extra cost.
Yes. All data is publicly available from municipal, provincial, and federal open-data portals under their respective open-government licences. We deliver the intel for you to use in your outreach — we do not send cold emails on your behalf. Every workbook ships with a CASL/PIPEDA guidance sheet so your sales team stays inside the rules.
Yes — if the city publishes its commercial permits or business licences via an open-data API (most Canadian cities >50k people do), we can usually add it within 1 week. Email matthew@shovelradar.com with your city name and trade focus.
We're Canada-native and trade-routed. Construction Monitor is US-focused; ConstructConnect targets enterprise GCs at $500+/mo with broad firehose feeds. Shovel Radar starts at $29/mo, ships pre-segmented Excel sheets for your specific trade (HVAC, electrical, plumbing, restaurant equipment, etc.), and bundles business licences + federal procurement — not just permits.
Still have questions?
matthew@shovelradar.comGet a 5-row sample
No credit card. Tell us what trade you serve and we'll send a 5-row sample of the freshest commercial permits in your city, formatted exactly how subscribers receive it.
