What's new

New York City, Long Island and Westchester, and the rest of New York

Pro now covers New York. Every city building job names the owner and the architect when it is filed, months before the permit, and the general contractor when the permit is issued; the electrical, plumbing, sprinkler and elevator permits name each sub. Deeds come with the price and both parties, and loans with the lender, for the four boroughs that use the City Register. Rezonings show the developer and hearing dates years before a permit, with zoning, landmarks and flood zones on the map. Across the state, public works payrolls name every contractor and sub by trade, and state bids, health projects and development incentives name the owner.

Pittsburgh and the rest of Pennsylvania

Pro now covers Pittsburgh: city building permits with their value, the electrical, mechanical and fire subs named from their trade permits, Allegheny County land and commercial sales with the price, and City Council land use items. Across Pennsylvania, DEP stormwater permits name the owner or developer months before the building permit, and FAA filings flag tall buildings and cranes. Zoning, historic districts and opportunity zones are on the Pittsburgh map for the city, Beaver and Butler counties and a few suburbs.

Connect Claude or ChatGPT from Pro

API & MCP in the Pro sidebar makes a key, shows the setup for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and more, and counts your calls against 2,000 a day. Need more? Ask from the same page.

Every market in one list: All US, All Canada, all of a state

Pick All US, All Canada or a state, and Projects and Records show every market in it in one table, cities included. A Market filter narrows it to a state, a province or a city, and the market map outlines what you picked.

Project files in tabs: the team, the timeline, every record

Every project file now opens on where it stands, its value, its size, the latest filing and the GC, then tabs for the team with each company's phone and email, a timeline of filings, changes and stories, and every record on the job.

Zoning on the map and on every file

Turn on Zoning in the map's layers to see every district colored by what it allows, then open any parcel or project for its zoning, future land use, overlays and historic district. Records and Projects filter by zoning too, outside Dallas-Fort Worth and Toronto, where parcel records carry no map point.

Next hearings, on Today and in the morning email

Today lists the planning cases going before a board in the next two weeks, with the date and the board, and the morning email previews the first three. Each one links to its file or the city's case page.

Ask works like a chat

Ask opens on one box in the middle of the page. Ask a question and the box moves to the foot of the page, where it stays while the answer and the records behind it fill in above.

Toronto gets its own morning edition

Toronto development news now lands in your inbox every morning at 8: towers filed, council approvals, starts and sales, each story tied to its project file in Pro. Sign up on the Toronto page.

The rest of Texas, Florida and Tennessee, and seven Canadian markets

Pro now reaches past our cities: TDLR registrations across Texas, early site permits across Florida, and state building projects and construction sites across Tennessee. In Canada, Toronto plus Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, from city permits and planning files to the provincial project lists. Pick any of them from the market menu.

Radar is now an inbox of projects on the move

Every project is one thread, labeled by where it is between land and delivery. Open one for its records and the people on it, mark it contacted or not relevant, set it to come back on a day, keep a note, or draft a first message. Tune it by value, size, team, type and place, and the morning email lists what is new.

Setup shows where your matches are in a project's life

Your count at the end of setup now comes with the line every project travels, from land to delivery, and how many of your matches sit at each stage. Tap the stages you sell into.

Search reaches every market, nearest first

Search from Miami and you see Miami first, then the rest of Florida, then every other market, each hit labeled with its market. A name's words find it even with other words between them: Tesla Lamar finds Tesla, Inc. (Lamar CISD).

Send feedback from the sidebar

A Feedback button at the bottom of the sidebar opens a small card. Pick what it is about, write a line, and it goes straight to the founder.

Search finds an address however it's spelled

Type 700 North Miami Avenue or 700 N Miami Ave, NW 1st or NW 1, Smith & Jones or Smith and Jones: Records, search, Owners and Companies find the same results.

Faster pages, in every market and across all of them

Today, the project file, Companies and the numbers strip at the top of every page now open in about a second, including for a whole state, all of the US or all of Canada. Searching Records answers in a fraction of a second.

Billion-dollar projects read in billions

Project pages, Records, Leads, search, the map and Ask now show $10.1B where they used to show $10,116M.

Filter projects by use, and hide the houses

Projects has a Use filter (multifamily, office, industrial and the rest) and a Houses switch, as Records does. A new Value column shows the construction cost, or else the largest job on the permits, and the Units, Sq ft and Value filters now match what the table shows. Use is off only for the rest of Pennsylvania on its own, where under half the projects name one.

Pick cities across a whole state or country

On All Canada, All US or a whole state, Projects and Records now have the Place filter: every market's cities under its name, so Calgary and Mississauga can share one list without leaving All Canada. Montréal and Québec City are in it too.

Filter land sales by city

Land has a Place filter: pick Miami Beach, Coral Gables or any city the year's sales name. It shows in Miami, Dallas-Fort Worth, Nashville, Pittsburgh and New York City. Elsewhere most deeds name no city, so it stays off.

Find a market by name

The market picker is a list now, by country and state, with a search box: type a city, state or province and press Enter. The map beside it shows what each pick takes in, so you see that Florida means Miami, Tampa Bay and the rest of the state before you click.

Filters show when they're working

Pick a filter and the table dims under a loading bar until the new rows arrive, with your pick already showing on the filter. The other filters wait until it lands, so a year of records never looks stuck.

Who to ask for at the companies on a job

The Team tab now names people to ask for at each company, beside its office line, inbox and site. Florida comes first: its corporate registry names the officers at about half the firms on its jobs. Elsewhere, for now, you see the leaders the busiest firms name on their own sites. Each one links to the page we found it on, and you can report one that's wrong.

The GC, the subs and the suppliers on Pennsylvania jobs

Pro now reads Pennsylvania's State Construction Notices Directory. When an owner files a notice on a job of $1.5 million or more, often a week before the building permit, you see the owner and the general contractor. Each sub and supplier then files as it starts, with its scope and who hired it, most with a work email or phone. A year is loaded for Pittsburgh and the rest of the state: 515 jobs and 1,390 sub and supplier notices.

Pricing on one screen, by the month or the year

The pricing page puts monthly and yearly side by side: one price, one button, what it comes to per market, and everything Pro opens next to your market.

Example requests and responses for every API call

The API docs now show a curl and its real JSON answer for every call and every error, and an example for each of the 22 tools.

Pro opens in light mode

New visitors start in light mode. Dark mode is one click away in the sidebar and remembers your choice.

The news opens on the list

Every market's front page now opens on the list of stories. The 3D map is one click away.

New plants and crane work, apart from warehouses

Records and Radar now tell manufacturing plants and fab shops apart from warehouses, and find permits that name a bridge, jib or overhead crane, a hoist or a crane runway. Equipment dealers and crane installers get both as Radar paths, with FAA crane filings, wherever a market has them.

Tower cranes on their project file

A crane filed with the FAA without a street address now lands on its project when it names the building's FAA case, stands beside another filing of the same job, or sits next to a project of the same name. In Dallas-Fort Worth nearly twice as many of this year's crane filings now have a project or an address.

New Texas plants, one to three years early

Every application a company files with the Texas Comptroller for a JETI school tax limit now reaches Records, Radar and the project file: the company, the school district and county, and on most the investment and the jobs. These are the big plants, from Tesla and TeraFab to Lite-On in McKinney, filed one to three years before construction starts.

Planning cases the week they are filed

Rezonings, variances, special uses and site plans now come from each city's and county's own case maps, often weeks before they reach an agenda, with the case link and the hearing date where one is set. A case and the agenda item that hears it share one file.

Opportunity zones and tax credit areas on every file

Every parcel and project file says whether it sits in an opportunity zone, a Qualified Census Tract, a Difficult Development Area or a New Markets Tax Credit tract. Records and Projects filter to opportunity zones everywhere but Dallas-Fort Worth, where parcel records carry no map point.

A menu on your phone

On a phone, the menu button at the top left opens every section, search, your plan and light or dark mode. The bar along the bottom is gone, so pages and the map get the whole screen.

Pro fits a phone, upright or on its side

On a phone turned sideways or a short laptop screen, the sidebar becomes a slim strip of icons that scrolls, so every link stays in reach. Nothing floats over the rows on a phone anymore.

Every list says how big it is

Records and Projects now count every row your filters match, "10,167 records in the last 30 days", not just the 200 on screen. The count follows every filter you set.

The market map reaches Toronto and the provinces

The market picker and the Pro map's All markets view now show every market, Toronto included, and each state and province with records in Pro.

Sign up from any page and land back on it

Signing up from a project, a company file or a saved search takes about a minute: a few quick questions, your count of matching jobs, your free account, then straight back to the page you were on.

See your matches before you make an account

Sign up in about a minute: a few quick questions about what you do, your trades and your markets, then how many jobs from the last 30 days fit you, then your free account. Your picks come with you, so there is nothing to answer twice.

Every record names the agency behind it

Each public record on a project file now names the city, county or agency that issued it, in every market, so you know where to look it up.

Texas registrations in Dallas-Fort Worth

Every TDLR registration in Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton counties now reaches Records, Radar and the project file, naming the owner with a phone and the design firm about two months before construction.

Ask: the record, in your own words

Ask Groundbreak anything you would ask a researcher who has read every permit, deed, loan and lien: who pulled the most permits, which lenders are most active, what builders pay for a lot, which jobs sit in a flood zone, how this month compares with last. The answer comes back with the table, a CSV and the records behind it, in any of our seven markets.

It opens with questions picked for your work and checked against the record first, so each one has an answer.

Flood zones on every permit, project and lot

Every parcel now carries its FEMA flood zone. Filter Records and Projects to the ones in a flood zone, where the building code requires flood protection on new and substantially improved buildings, or to the coastal high hazard V zones. Builds has a flood toggle too.

In Miami over the last 90 days: 120 permits in coastal V zones, from Brickell Bay Drive to Tahiti Beach.

Builds: who is building, what they paid for the land, and what it sold for

Every lot a builder bought to build on, followed from the land sale through the demolition and building permits to the sale of the new house, in Tampa Bay and Charlotte. A map with the county's lot lines, the builders ranked, and each builder's LLCs pulled together by their mailing address. Teardowns are one click.

In the City of Tampa over the last two years: 354 teardowns, a median of $400K for the land and $862K for the new house, 30 months apart.

Watching: what moved on the projects and companies you follow

Star a project or a company and Today shows what changed on it: a new permit, a deed, a status change, a new filing that names the company. Every market you watch, newest first, under your Radar.

Filter by county, then city

The place filter on Records and Projects now reads the way you think about a market: the county first, then the cities and communities in it, each spelled once. Pick a whole county or just the towns you cover.

Towers and tower cranes filed with the FAA

New towers and the cranes that build them now show up in Radar and on the project file as soon as they are filed with the FAA, in every market: the height, where it is, and how long the crane stays. The sponsor is named once the FAA clears it.

Project files take their size from the permits

A project file now fills in floors, square feet and units from the building permits filed for it, in every market. A job filed as several permits adds up: two fire areas of 90 and 20 units read as 110.

Connect any AI, with docs and your usage

Add Groundbreak to the Claude app or ChatGPT by pasting one address and signing in, or to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Codex with a key. New docs list every tool, market and limit, with a plain-text copy your agent can read, and Connect AI shows your calls by day and by tool. Access can be read only.

Lot lines on the map

Zoom in on a Sites or Builds map and each lot draws its real lines from the county's parcel map, in Miami, Tampa Bay, Atlanta, Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth and Nashville.

Seawalls and docks as a trade

Records can now filter to seawall, dock and marine permits.

One project, one file

A campus or a tower that went by several names now has one file with all of its permits, deeds and news. Old links still work.

Today reads as a log of your market

The week's stories with the fields each one changed on the project, and the week's filings on named projects, biggest job first.

The CRM finds properties on a map

Search every parcel by use, value, size, last sale and what was filed on it, as a list or a map, and save the search to hear about new matches.