I read these permits every week. Now you can too.

I'm a Maryland local. Every month I sit through public hearings, review applications, and read the building permit ledgers and I've been doing this for years.

What I noticed: contractors who knew about a project early won the job. The ones who showed up after a neighbor mentioned it were already too late. The permit is public record the day it's filed. The problem is nobody builds the tooling to surface it in a usable form.

I built Tradewinds to help contractors. The core idea is simple: join the permit record with the property record, classify it by trade, and deliver it before the homeowner has started calling around. A list of addresses is a commodity. A lead with a reason behind it is a different product.

The credibility gap between Tradewinds and a generic data vendor is this: We actually read these permits. When the classifier flags an "electrification-ready home," that judgment comes from knowing what a 200A service upgrade means in the context of a 1988 colonial in a neighborhood where three of the last five solar permits closed. A vendor pulling from the same public records doesn't have that context.

Questions, feedback, or a trade you want covered: [email protected]. I read every email.