Building permit leads for grading & earthwork contractors
Grading and earthwork contractors: mass grading, hillside and slope repair, utility trenching, and pad certification. Grading files before every vertical package, so this desk reads the earliest signal in the feed — today's rough grade is next quarter's building. PermitFeed reads every commercial filing across six SoCal counties nightly and scores each one specifically for grading & earthwork contractors: your trade’s rubric, your trade’s priorities, delivered with a written outreach angle.
What our Grading & Earthwork rubric watches for
Every filing is scored against themes that matter to your book of business, not construction size alone.
Recent qualified leads for grading & earthwork contractors
Scored 0.5+ for this trade in the last 90 days. Full records include the address, applicant, source portal link, and a written outreach angle.
| Lead | City | Type | Value | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ···· N Las Palmas Ave: 7-Story TOC Apartment Grading LAST NIGHT | Los Angeles | NEW_CONSTRUCTION | · | 0.95 |
| ···· N Eton Ave - 24-Unit Apartment Site Grading LAST NIGHT | Los Angeles | NEW_CONSTRUCTION | $10.0M | 0.90 |
| ···· W Venice Blvd: 72-Unit Modular Housing LAST NIGHT | Los Angeles | NEW_CONSTRUCTION | $6.5M | 0.90 |
| Victory Blvd Recycling Facility - Site Grading LAST NIGHT | Los Angeles | NEW_CONSTRUCTION | $4K | 0.90 |
| Resort View Apartments - Mass Grading and Site Prep LAST NIGHT | Carlsbad | NEW_CONSTRUCTION | · | 0.90 |
| NEW_CONSTRUCTION permit LAST NIGHT | Los Angeles | NEW_CONSTRUCTION | $430K | 0.85 |
What one more mass grade is worth
Back-of-napkin arithmetic, on purpose: your win rate and your margins are yours. The feed’s job is at-bats you would not have seen, weeks earlier than you would have seen them. One landed mass grade tends to settle the question.
Timing is the whole product
Grading files before every other package on a site, and the yardage is printed on the record. This desk reads work the building trades will not see for two quarters.
How the signal reads for grading & earthwork contractors
Grading files before everything else on a site, which makes this feed the earliest look at work in all of construction: today's rough-grade filing is next quarter's building pad, visible two package awards before any vertical trade hears about it. The yardage is printed on the record, so a mass grade prices itself from public data, and the basin, backbone, and street scopes riding the same filing are the second contract. The developer who grades one parcel usually holds the next one, and the address history shows it.
First machine on the site, first name in the feed
Grading files before every vertical package, so this desk reads work the building trades will not see for two quarters. The yardage, the basin, and the street improvements are printed on the filing, which means a mass grade prices itself from public record, and the operator with iron already in the county wins the mobilization math before the bid opens.
Parcels come in strings
Developers entitle in batches, and the entity that grades one pad usually holds the next map on the same corridor. The address history shows the string: approved parcels not yet filed, the civil engineer who stamps every one, and the phase-two street frontage hiding in the current scope. One filing is a job; the pattern behind it is a client.
The scale behind that: 27,827 filings tracked across six Southern California counties in the last twelve months, carrying $2.3B in declared construction value, every one read against a rubric written for grading & earthwork contractors. The handful that belong in your pipeline surface. The rest sink.
The national construction-data platforms aggregate these same public records on a slower cycle, fold them into fifty states of noise, and price by custom quote. We collect from the source portals every night, read SoCal only, score for grading & earthwork contractors specifically, and post our prices: $59 to $499 a month, cancel from your own account page.
Field notes for grading & earthwork contractors
- The ground did not burn: the reports a rebuild owes before anyone frames itTwo building departments cover the two January 2025 burn areas, and they decide which lots get investigated by two different methods, one a map and on
Three patterns that keep paying
The mass grade
Cut-fill and import-export yardage on the filing means the job prices itself from public record. The operator with iron in the county wins the mobilization math.
The backbone
Basins, storm drain, and street improvements ride the same filing as the pad. The second contract is visible in the first scope.
The parcel string
Developers entitle in batches, and the entity grading one pad holds the next map. The address history shows the string before the next filing lands.