No. 01 — The morning brief
A roof, a pool, an addition — the work is already committed. We put the address, the owner, and the project value on your desk the morning the permit posts, before any other contractor knows the job exists.
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§ 01 — Why this exists
Every address in Fresh Filings is already public record. Florida counties post new building permits every working day. Anyone can download them. Almost nobody does — they're buried in clunky open-data portals most people never open.
So contractors keep paying $40 a "lead" for a homeowner who's already been called ten times, or chase Angi tickets eight other crews are dialing. By the time a job shows up anywhere else, it has a contractor.
"A permit is a homeowner who already said yes. The only question is who knocks first."
Fresh Filings reads the permits the morning they post, cleans them up, and sends you the new jobs in your trade and your counties — while the homeowner is still deciding who to hire.
§ 02 — This week's edition
This is the kind of sheet that lands in your inbox — address, work type, owner, project value, and whether a contractor is on the permit yet. Examples shown.
§ 03 — The readership
A reroof permit is a job already sold to someone — or still open if no contractor's on it. Either way you want the street: the neighbors are next, and you'd rather knock than wait for the call.
A new roof means a roof ready for panels. A new pool means the whole block is watching. Permits tell you exactly which houses to canvass this week.
Additions, alterations, and owner-pulled permits are jobs in motion. Reach the owner in week one and you're quoting before the competition knows the work exists.
§ 04 — The arrangement
Tell us the work you do and where you do it. That's the entire setup — one reply, once.
We pull each county's daily record, keep only the fresh permits in your trade, and clean up the addresses, owners, and values.
The full week's list arrives as a plain spreadsheet — sorted, open jobs flagged, ready to work. You make the first move.
§ 05 — A note from the desk
I'm Noah. I built Fresh Filings after watching good contractors lose jobs not because they were worse, but because someone knocked first.
The information was sitting in a public file the whole time. It just wasn't readable, wasn't fast, and wasn't sorted by the work you actually do. So I made it readable, fast, and local — and now I send it out every Monday.
No dashboard to log into. No app to learn. A list, in your inbox, of homeowners who don't have your competitor's number yet.
§ 06 — Subscribe
Founding rate, held for as long as you stay. No contract, no setup fee.
§ 07 — On the record
Public records published by Florida county building departments (open-data portals). It's public permit information — never private or consumer data.
The public record always includes the property address, owner name, work type, and project value. Phone numbers aren't part of the permit; when a county publishes a contractor phone, it's included. The address and owner are plenty for a knock or a letter.
Yes — that's the only setup. Reply after you subscribe with your trade (roofing, solar, pool, remodel…) and the counties you work, and every edition is tailored to them.
From the billing link in any receipt, or just reply to an email. No contract, no phone call, no retention maze.
Yes. Redistributing public records is permitted; we follow Florida's data-usage guidelines and never resell private consumer data.
Tomorrow morning, a few hundred more permits post. Be the first knock.