What's new

San Antonio and the Treasure Coast

Pro now covers San Antonio and its ring out to New Braunfels, Seguin and Boerne, and Florida's Treasure Coast from Stuart to Vero Beach: permits, planning cases and upcoming hearings, and around San Antonio, deeds, loans and liens with the parties named.

Texas does not disclose sale prices or loan amounts. On the Treasure Coast, deeds, loans and liens are not tracked yet, Martin County's sales carry the price and both parties, and Indian River County has planning cases and agendas but no permits yet.

Miami reaches the Keys and more Broward and Palm Beach cities

Miami now covers the Florida Keys, with permits, building allocations and sales, and permits from Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, Pembroke Pines and more than twenty other cities in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade.

In the Keys, deeds, loans, notices of commencement and liens are not tracked.

Dallas-Fort Worth reaches Ellis and Johnson counties

Dallas-Fort Worth now covers Ellis and Johnson counties: Midlothian and Burleson permits, Waxahachie, Midlothian and Cleburne planning cases, and Johnson County deeds and loans with the parties named.

Waco and Killeen in Texas

The Texas market now covers Waco's permits with their value, Bell and Coryell County deeds and loans with the parties named, and Killeen and Temple planning cases.

Earn 30% on every customer you send

Every Groundbreak account now has a referral link, free or paid. When someone you send starts a plan, you earn 30% of what they pay, monthly or yearly, for as long as they pay, as credit on your bill or as cash.

Pittsburgh gets its own morning edition

Southwest Pennsylvania's development news now lands in your inbox every morning: data centers, plants, warehouses and the bigger apartment buildings across the ten counties around Pittsburgh, each story tied to its project file in Pro. Sign up on the Pittsburgh page.

One front page for every market

Groundbreak.city now opens on every market at once: the most-read stories first, then everything new, newest first. Pick a market right on the page to narrow it.

Ultra: your whole company on one plan

Ultra puts everyone at your company on Groundbreak, with no limit on people, 25,000 API and MCP calls a day each and 1,000 phone lookups a month, for $497 a month or $4,497 a year. The pricing page also shows what is in each market.

Ultra by the year is paid from a US bank account. A Pro or Scale member can move to Ultra in place and pays only the difference for the rest of the period.

Scale: five times the API calls for your agents, and room for four people

Scale gives your agents 10,000 API and MCP calls a day and 20,000 export rows, for $97 a month or $897 a year. Add up to three people: you share one CRM, see who is already on a lead and send leads to each other.

Scale by the year is paid from a US bank account. A Pro member can move to Scale in place and pays only the difference for the rest of the period.

Detroit, Ann Arbor and the rest of Michigan

Pro now covers metro Detroit and Ann Arbor: permits with their value and the sub on each trade, Wayne County sales and loans, and the developer before the permit.

See Pro in under two minutes, or book 30 minutes with Max

A short walkthrough sits beside every Start Pro button. Rather see your own market live? Book 30 minutes with Max. If Pro isn't for you in your first 30 days, email max@groundbreak.city for your money back.

Save your filters and apply them in one click

Name any set of filters on Records, Projects, Companies, the map, Land or Builds. The Saved button at the end of the filters brings it back in one click, shows every filter in a set before you apply it, and lets you rename or update a set later.

The logo and the market picker open every market

Click the Groundbreak logo, or pick Every market at the top of the market picker, to see the latest stories from every market in one feed.

More contractor contacts for Atlanta projects

Find 110 more people at contractors connected to Atlanta projects, including 20 superintendents, plus 33 published individual work emails.

The additions include 21 people explicitly affiliated with Atlanta-area offices and 89 company-wide staff. Office and company affiliations remain separate from project assignments. Eight office phones, three general inboxes and eight websites were also added.

More people and contact details on company profiles

Find 10,727 more professional profiles and 8,529 more business phone numbers and email addresses across 7,820 companies.

Most additions are at companies active in New York City, with more company rosters across our markets. Published job titles and license classifications stay distinct. Published phone numbers and emails are company contact routes, with no claim of a direct individual line or project assignment.

More people to reach at the companies on your projects

Company profiles in nine markets now name more superintendents, project managers and preconstruction leads to reach.

These are each firm's people, not a confirmed list of who is on each job.

Neighborhoods inside the big cities

Pick a neighborhood in Miami, Dallas, Toronto and 14 more big cities and see the projects there.

The cities: Pittsburgh, Detroit, Tampa, St Petersburg, Miami, Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta, Sandy Springs, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Calgary and Edmonton. The rest of each market keeps its towns.

More people to reach at Atlanta contractors

Atlanta contractor profiles now list more project managers, superintendents and preconstruction leads at each firm.

These are each firm's people, not a confirmed list of who is on each job.

New York City by borough and neighborhood

Pick a borough, then a neighborhood like Bay Ridge or Park Slope, and see the projects and records there.

Long Island, Westchester, Rockland and Putnam keep their towns.

Philadelphia

Every permit with the contractor and owner, the sub on each trade, applications months before the permit, and the owner of every parcel. The suburbs come next.

Pennsylvania projects, weeks before the permit

Projects in ten Pennsylvania counties now show up at planning review, and Pittsburgh's at the permit application. Plus a year of sales and loans in more counties.

75 data centers across Pennsylvania

Many show up before a single permit, with the township, the developer when known, and every permit on each.

Find every data center project

Filter Projects, Records, the map and Radar to data centers in every market, even ones filed as industrial.

Every market on one map

The Pro home page maps every market we cover. Pick one to see its projects, companies and phone numbers.

Projects and Records open on your markets

Projects and Records open on all your Radar markets in one list. The Market chip on every page switches in one click.

Filter the map by project, record or company

Pick a GC, a role or how busy a firm is, and the map shows only the projects and records they're on.

Nashville: the sub on every trade permit

Every electrical, plumbing and mechanical permit in Nashville now names its contractor, on your Radar and the project file.

Your first three matches open in full

A new account's Radar opens its top three jobs in full: every name, the people on each, and a phone where we have one.

Radar is now an inbox of projects on the move

Every project is one thread, labeled by its stage from land to delivery. Mark it contacted, bring it back on a date, keep a note, or draft a first message.

New York City and the rest of New York

See the owner and architect on a city job months before the permit, the GC when it's issued, the sub on each trade, and rezonings years ahead.

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.

See where each timeline update came from

Each change on a project's timeline links to the story or record behind it. A detail reported twice shows once.

Ask us to find a project team's contacts

No phone or email for a project's team? Ask from the Team tab and we'll find them and add them to the file.

Tune your Radar to the exact number

Set a minimum and maximum on value, units, square feet, stories and team size. Every option shows its count as you pick.

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

The end of setup shows how many of your matches sit at each stage, from land to delivery. Tap the stages you sell into.

Send feedback from the sidebar

A Feedback button at the bottom of the sidebar sends a note straight to Max.

Filter projects by use, and hide the houses

Pick multifamily, office or industrial, or switch off houses. A new Value column shows each job's cost.

Use is off for the rest of Pennsylvania on its own, where under half the projects name one.

Pick cities across a whole state or country

On a whole state, All US or All Canada, the Place filter lists every city, so Calgary and Mississauga can share one list.

Filter land sales by city

Pick Miami Beach, Coral Gables or any city and see only its land sales.

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 searchable list now. Type a city, state or province, and a map shows what each pick covers.

Who to ask for at the companies on a job

The Team tab now names people to ask for at each company on a job, next to its phone, email and site.

Florida comes first, with names at about half the firms on its jobs. Elsewhere, for now, the busiest firms. Report a name that's wrong from the file.

The GC, the subs and the suppliers on Pennsylvania jobs

See the owner and GC on Pennsylvania jobs of $1.5 million or more, often a week before the permit, then each sub and supplier as it starts work, most with an email or phone.

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.