Comparison
PermitVector vs Shovels.ai
If you're weighing Shovels.ai for Texas markets, here's the honest difference in approach.
Shovels.ai
national AI permit-data platform
Powerful national coverage — 185M+ permits, 3.3M contractor profiles, API access, GIS tools. At $599/mo standard, it’s built for marketing teams, real estate developers, and analysts who need national data at scale and have engineers to query it.
PermitVector
daily Texas adjacent-buyer permit feed
Built for the Texas SMB contractor, not an analyst team. $199–699/mo gets you a daily adjacent-buyer feed in plain English — pre-classified, pre-mapped, delivered as a brief by 6 AM CT. No API, no data warehouse, no engineer required.
Both can have a place in your stack. PermitVector's edge is timing and adjacency across Texas: public-record permits, classified and mapped to the trade that should act, delivered as a daily brief from $199/mo.
Pricing
Flat monthly. No per-lead games.
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Starter
billed monthly
One trade vertical, one metro.
- ✓1 adjacent-buyer vertical (e.g. solar)
- ✓One Texas metro of your choice
- ✓Daily CSV export
- ✓Up to 500 fresh leads / mo
- ✓Email support
Pro
billed monthly
Most teams start here.
- ✓3 adjacent-buyer verticals
- ✓All 10 live Texas markets
- ✓Daily feed + searchable dashboard
- ✓Unlimited leads
- ✓CSV + filtered exports
- ✓API read access (rate-limited)
Power
billed monthly
Suppliers & multi-trade.
- ✓All verticals
- ✓All live Texas markets + new ones first
- ✓Daily feed + full API
- ✓Custom adjacent-buyer mapping
- ✓Up to 5 seats
- ✓Priority support
One closed job typically pays for a full year — contractors already spend $1,500–$10,000/mo on leads at $150–$350 per exclusive lead.
The first one to the job site wins.
Turn Texas's daily permits into your earliest, freshest pipeline. Start free — see your first feed tomorrow morning.
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