Groundbreak vs ConstructConnect
Pick ConstructConnect if your day runs on bids and plan rooms. Pick Groundbreak if you want to be on the job before it is a bid: when the deed records, the loan closes, or the permit is pulled.
Project Intelligence: Project Search, a Bid Center (Inbox, Under Review, Bidding, Bid Sent, Won), Intelligent Leads, analytics, document search, watch lists and alerts, material quantity takeoffs.
- Sold to
- Subcontractors, general contractors, manufacturers, suppliers and service providers. The homepage asks "Tell us what kind of business you run".
- Data from
- More than 400 researchers updating the database daily through document review and outreach, by their description.
- Covers
- Planning · Bidding · Awarded · Under construction
- Price
- Starter $129 per month per market. Professional from $199 per month per market per seat (adds planning-stage projects, plan-holder contacts, export, daily saved searches). Premium from $10,000 per year. source ↗
The development database for 7 Sunbelt markets, read from the public record daily by a newsroom: permits, deeds, construction loans, notices of commencement, zoning and site plan cases, and the trade sub-permits, with the contractor, owner and lender named where the county publishes them.
- Sold to
- Subcontractors, suppliers, general contractors, architects and engineers, developers, brokers, lenders and insurers working one or more of the seven markets.
- Data from
- The source document on every row: city and county permit feeds, clerk and register of deeds indexes, appraisal rolls, planning and council agendas.
- Covers
- Land sale · Entitlement · Loan · Permit · Start · Trades · Delivery · Distress
- Price
- Free account (three files to start, then one a week). Pro $99 a month for one market or $199 for all 7, 7 days free. Team $299 a month, five seats. pricing →
What ConstructConnect has that Groundbreak does not
- A bid workflow built in: inbox, under review, bid sent, won.
- Plan-holder lists and material quantities from the drawings.
- National coverage, strongest over $500,000.
What Groundbreak has that ConstructConnect does not
- Every row cites the public record it came from; nothing is a researcher's summary.
- Deeds, loans and notices of commencement alongside permits on one project file.
- Owner of record on every parcel in the market, so a site with nothing filed yet still has a name.
- The phone transcribed from the permit where the jurisdiction carries it.
- Lower entry price for one market, and the files are open before you pay.
What Groundbreak publishes, market by market
Each cell is a hand-checked flag against the county's own feed (webapp coverage table, verified against the filings). A · means the county does not publish it, so neither do we.
| Market | Permits | Phone on permit | Deeds | Loans | Starts (NOC) | Liens | Zoning & site plans | Owner of record | Trade subs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin | Yes | Yes | Parties, no price | · | · | · | Yes | Yes | · |
| Atlanta | Yes | Yes | Parties, no price | Yes | · | Yes | Yes | Yes | · |
| Miami | Yes | Yes | Daily, with price | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Nashville | Yes | · | Daily, with price | · | · | · | Yes | Yes | · |
| Tampa Bay | Yes | Yes | Daily, with price | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | · |
| Charlotte | Yes | Yes | · | · | · | · | Yes | Yes | · |
| Dallas-Fort Worth | Yes | Yes | Parties, no price | Yes | · | Yes | Yes | Yes | · |
Questions
- Is Groundbreak a replacement for ConstructConnect?
- Pick ConstructConnect if your day runs on bids and plan rooms. Pick Groundbreak if you want to be on the job before it is a bid: when the deed records, the loan closes, or the permit is pulled. The two are complements for a firm that works nationally and sells hardest in one Sunbelt market.
- How much does ConstructConnect cost?
- As published on https://www.constructconnect.com/pricing on 2026-10-05: Starter $129 per month per market. Professional from $199 per month per market per seat (adds planning-stage projects, plan-holder contacts, export, daily saved searches). Premium from $10,000 per year.
- How much does Groundbreak Pro cost?
- Free account (three files to start, then one a week). Pro $99 a month for one market or $199 for all 7, 7 days free. Team $299 a month, five seats.
- Where does Groundbreak get its data?
- From the public record in each market: city and county permit feeds, the county clerk and register of deeds indexes, the appraisal rolls, and the planning commission and council agendas, read daily. Every row on the site links to the source document.
- Which markets does Groundbreak cover that ConstructConnect does not?
- Groundbreak covers Austin, Atlanta, Miami, Nashville, Tampa Bay, Charlotte, Dallas-Fort Worth, each from its own county sources. ConstructConnect covers planning, bidding, awarded, under construction nationally; the difference is depth per record, not the map.
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Vendor facts are from the vendor's own site on 2026-10-05. Product names belong to their owners. If something here is out of date, write to max@groundbreak.city and it will be corrected.