Find your fit
Shovel Radar maps every commercial permit, business licence, and construction signal in Calgary (and 381 other Canadian cities) to the trade or industry that should chase it. Pick your business type below — we'll show you exactly which products fit, what's in each one, and the live row count from last Monday's run.
Trades
Every Calgary commercial permit, scored and routed to the trades that actually win the bid. Phone numbers, project value, work class, GC name.
Re-roof permits, inspection-failure rework, owner-builder hitlist.
MEP volume heatmap, inspection failures, aging-building rewires.
Restaurant builds, medical fit-outs, MEP volume, lifecycle lock-in.
Aged-permit slice, active fitouts, inspection failures, service contracts.
Foundations, slab-on-grade, parkade pours — flagged at footing inspection stage.
Demolition permits + lapsed/stalled sites needing teardown.
Active fitouts, tenant improvements, partition work flagged at framing stage.
Interior + exterior, finishing-phase permits, repaint cycles by building age.
Curtain wall, storefront, window replacement — envelope-stage signals.
Heritage restoration + new commercial brick + block work.
Office TIs, tenant moves, fibre/ethernet runs at sub-permit stage.
Access control, alarm, locksmith — also see the dedicated Security & CCTV bundle.
Commercial solar capex, AER well-licence retirement, clean-energy permits.
New-business licence radar + retail/restaurant fitouts (sign permit window).
DP pipeline (6–12 month lookahead), GC activity leaderboard, architect–GC pairings.
Real estate & capital
Tax-sale watch, insolvency watch, lapsed permits, Property Health Score.
Boardwalk, RioCan, Allied, Cadillac Fairview — matched-permit alerts.
Post-licence window (30 days), $250K+ permit bonds, new-business slice.
Construction-loan prospects, refi triggers, business expansions.
Calgary assessment-roll deltas + recently-completed permits triggering re-assessment.
Distressed assets, tax sales, insolvencies, land-use redesignations.
Whale Lists — the 30–50 largest Calgary projects every quarter, exclusivity-capped at 3 buyers/vertical.
CMHC vacancy pulse, apartment-vacancy data, lease-up risk signals.
Equipment dealers & suppliers
Permit + business-licence intelligence flags new openings, renovations, and expansions 6–12 weeks before the GC vendor list closes.
Restaurant capex, AGLC liquor licensees, hospitality buildouts — Restaurant & Hospitality bundle.
Medical/Dental Fitout bundle — CPSA & CDSA cross-match, 539-permit hitlist.
Clinic fitout pipeline + dental buildouts at confirmed-operator addresses.
$500K+ residential, $250K+ renovations, pool/spa, PIPEDA-safe address list.
Sub-Zero / Wolf / Miele / Thermador — estate-tier kitchens by permit.
Whole-home automation + theatres — flagged via Luxury Residential bundle.
Every Calgary pool + spa permit, city-wide.
Active commercial sites needing scissor lifts, generators, heaters, scaffold.
Demolition + renovation permits with predictable bin-rental windows.
Hotel buildouts + renovation projects — pre-tender lookahead.
Recurring services
Multi-site contracts last 5+ years and command 30% premium pricing. Find the portfolio operators and the contractor-churn signals.
Portfolio operators, contractor churn map, anchor-tenant watch.
146 portfolio operators + 88 federal buildings + 250 LTC homes.
Aged commercial buildings ripe for preventive-maintenance contracts.
Restaurant + healthcare + LTC accounts with recurring-service needs.
Tenant moves flagged at permit + business-licence-address-change signal.
Crime stats, fire safety, inspection-failure alerts — Security & CCTV bundle.
Paving / Snow / Outdoor bundle — portfolio operators + 311 signals.
311 water-damage complaint properties + insurance-claim signals.
Industry verticals
Each vertical bundle is the every-buyer-in-Calgary map plus the active capex signal stream for that industry.
8,216 physicians + dentists, 539 active fitouts, 250 LTC homes.
AGLC liquor, restaurant capex, hotel buildouts, food-service inspections.
250 LTC homes with cleaning + catering + laundry contracts in play.
Racking, dock levellers, OH doors, floor coatings — industrial capex hitlist.
AGLC cannabis + liquor licensees with active fitout permits.
Dealership renovations + service-bay capex.
Office TIs + new commercial buildouts needing telco infrastructure.
$500K+ permits, custom builds, pool/spa, $250K+ renovations.
Calgary heritage register + listed-building renovation permits.
Federal real-property radar + sole-source watch + MERX solicitations.
736 charities ranked by capex spend + foundation grants just disbursed.
CMHC housing pipeline, roadway construction watch, parking-lot owners.
Specialty
Niche products for buyers with a specific sales motion. Each one is small but the buyers are few, so the value is concentrated.
Clean-energy capex, green-building performance, carbon-clock benchmarks.
New-business licence radar + zero-review prospect list.
Office moves & expansions — hiring-up signal.
Local businesses with zero Google reviews — pure-prospect list.
Secondary-suite permits + STR renovation projects.
AER well-licence transfers + abandonment + reclamation triggers.
More niche cuts available on request — we have data for 380+ Canadian cities and 100+ product slices not all surfaced here. Email matthew@shovelradar.com if your business type isn't listed.
Don't see your business?
We have 96+ buyer-facing products derived from open permit + business-licence + provincial-registry data. If you don't see your specific sales motion above, email me with one sentence about what you sell and who you sell it to — we'll either point you at the right existing product or tell you honestly that there isn't one yet.
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