Field notes
Tactical playbooks, data studies, and field notes from inside the discover map — written for general contractors, trade BD teams, and developers selling into California, Texas, Florida, and Illinois.
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We analyzed 1,140,000 active construction permits across California, Texas, Florida, and Illinois to map where BD teams actually find new work. Six findings, with the data.
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8,140 building permits hit Los Angeles County last month. Here's how the best BD teams source, qualify, and pursue them — without losing to the GC who showed up first.
Mechanical permit signals are the highest-yield lead source in commercial HVAC. Here's how the top BD teams source, qualify, and pursue them in 2026.
Re-roof permits, hail-cluster claims, and new-build subdivisions are the three live signals every roofing BD team should be watching. Here's how to actually use them.
Every new roof — re-roof or new-build — is a solar install window. Here's how the top solar BD teams source those windows from permit data and close them before anyone else knocks.
Every blog post here started as a real workflow we ran on the live permit feed. See the same data inside Tibly on your real territory — 30-minute founder walkthrough, workspace live the same day.