One email, every Monday morning. Address, issue date, permit type, and who pulled it — straight from the permit offices' own records.
Pool companies see every pool permit near them — each one a pool going in the ground and a future service account. Subs and suppliers see who's starting homes in their radius before the trucks show up. The weekly email also carries the most-active-builders leaderboard and a city-by-city breakdown for your area.
Public permit records, pulled weekly from eleven Houston-area jurisdictions:
Permit data describes issued permits only, shown as recorded. We don't republish applicant phone numbers or email addresses.
$99/month for one trade in your area. First two Mondays free — no card, nothing to cancel. If it isn't useful, it just stops.
Filed or issued? Issued. We track permits issued by all eleven jurisdictions and normalize each jurisdiction's issue date into one weekly digest — every row is a permit the jurisdiction has issued, not an application.
Deduplicated? Yes — one row per project. When several permits land on the same address, the digest shows the primary one (the new home, the pool), not the sidewalk or driveway sub-permit — and a trade permit issued this week on a project already reported in a prior week doesn't get counted as new again. Remodel, repair, and equipment-only permits are excluded from "new" counts.
Can I verify the records? Yes — every digest row carries the issuing jurisdiction and the permit number, so any row can be checked against the jurisdiction's own portal.
Does the free trial auto-convert? No. No card is collected for the trial, so nothing can be charged. Paid service starts only if you subscribe, and it's month-to-month at $99.
How fresh is it? Harris County — the largest source — updates daily, so a permit issued Friday is in Monday's digest. The suburb portals run a few days behind; the City of Houston publishes weekly; Montgomery County and Friendswood post on multi-week cycles. Every row shows its issue date, so you always see exactly how fresh it is.
Who is "who pulled it"? The applicant of record on the permit, shown verbatim — usually the pool builder or the general contractor, sometimes the plumbing contractor or another trade that filed it. We show what the record says and never guess.
Residential or commercial? Shown where the record shows it — each row carries the jurisdiction's own permit description verbatim. Most sources don't mark it as a separate field.
Completion or final-inspection dates? Not yet — the digest tracks permit issuance only. Completion alerts are on the roadmap.
Want history? A back-file CSV of prior weeks is available on request during the trial, so you can judge timing and duplicates yourself. CSV delivery of the weekly digest is available too — just ask.
Can I filter out the big production builders? Yes. Digests are generated per subscriber — tell me which builders to exclude, or ask for small/custom builders and owner-pulled permits only.
What about remodels, generators, commercial work? The database tags pools, new homes, solar, generators, remodels, re-roofs, foundation work, and commercial projects. Say what mix you want; your digest is built to it.
Is the same list sold to everyone? The records are public — the product is the collection, cleaning, and scoping. Each digest is scoped to one subscriber's trade and area, and custom filters are yours alone.
Cancellation? No contract. Cancel anytime from your Stripe receipt, or reply "stop" — either ends it immediately.
Privacy? Your email is used to send what you asked for and nothing else. Never sold, never shared.
Email matt@recourserecovery.com with your trade and city — one line is fine — and the next two Monday digests are yours.
Recourse · 1000 Main St, Ste 2300, Houston, TX 77002 · run by Matt Coscia. Recourse does two things: this digest, and commercial collections for Texas construction — same operator, same inbox. Questions? Email — I answer everything myself.