Painters never pull a permit in Austin, so no permit list will ever show you a painting job. Fortific reads every new build, interior remodel and foundation repair the city files and tells you who to call before the walls are ready.
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Interior remodel and roof extension to main house with partial demolition.
Painting doesn't require a permit, so you can't search for it. Every job you need is hiding inside someone else's building permit.
Referrals keep you busy until a slow month. You need a steady way to meet builders and remodelers who don't know you yet.
Shared homeowner leads mean a race to the bottom on price. A builder with three houses going up wants a reliable crew, not the lowest bid.
Every new home, addition and interior remodel the city files this week, with the general contractor's name and phone.
Foundation work cracks drywall and sticks doors. We send the owner's mailing address from the tax roll so you can mail before the cracks show.
Paint is one of the last trades in. A permit issued today gives you weeks to meet the builder and walk a finished house.
Real permits Austin issued in the last seven days that need painting. Phone numbers are partly hidden here; subscribers get them in full, every morning.
Addition of mud room to existing residence.
Every new wall gets painted, and painters never pull a permit.
New construction of parking garage.
Every new wall gets painted, and painters never pull a permit.
Addition and remodel extending dining room and remodel of kitchen.
Every new wall gets painted, and painters never pull a permit.
Interior remodel of single-family home.
Interior remodel, and painters never pull a permit.
New construction of commercial parking garage.
Every new wall gets painted, and painters never pull a permit.
Kitchen and living space remodel with master suite addition, pool bathroom, and new roof.
Every new wall gets painted, and painters never pull a permit.
Top ZIP codes this week. Single Trade covers up to 10 ZIPs you pick.
$251M+ in permitted work this week where painting is still open
Austin publishes every permit it issues. We pull the full feed each morning, so nothing slips past.
Each permit is decoded into plain English and checked against every sub-permit on the job, so we know which contractors are named and which trades it still needs.
Only jobs that will need paint, in your ZIP codes, with the builder's phone or, for foundation repairs, the owner's mailing address.
permit_type_desc: Building Permitpermit_number: 2026-126536 BPpermit_class: R- 434 Addition & Alterationswork_class: Addition and Remodelpermit_location: 1140 MASON AVEdescription: *Partial Demo* Interior remodel and the permitting of a roof extension to main house.issue_date: 2026-09-28T00:00:00.000original_zip: 78721contractor_trade: General Contractorcontractor_company_name: Build Austin TXcontractor_phone: (817) ***-5357
Interior remodel and roof extension to main house with partial demolition.
Interior remodel, and painters never pull a permit.
Illustrative jobs built from the kinds of permits Austin issues every week. The ZIPs and job types are real; the live leads above are the actual permits.
Pick painting and your ZIPs. Use new-build leads to fill weekdays with builder work and keep repaints for referrals.
Interior remodel leads come with the GC's phone. One call covers trim, doors and paint.
Foundation-repair leads come with the owner's mailing address. A postcard per week is enough to fill the calendar.
Single Trade is $49 a month. A typical painting job in Austin is $10,000. You don’t need every lead to work. You need one, now and then.
449 Austin jobs needed painting in the last seven days.
Based on the $49/month Single Trade plan. Margins are an example; plug in your own job size.
Month to month. No setup fee, no per-lead charges. Cancel anytime from any email.
For owner-operators who work one trade in one part of town.
Painting + up to 10 ZIP codes
For crews and suppliers that cover all of Austin.
Add more trades or the whole metro
Permit lists sort by the trade on the permit, which is the one trade the job doesn’t need. Fortific sorts by the trades it still has to hire.
| Feature | Fortific | Typical permit list |
|---|---|---|
| Sorted by | Jobs that still need painting | The trade on the permit (already sold) |
| Checks every sub-permit on the job | ✓ | — |
| One-line reason it's your lead | ✓ | — |
| Builder name and phone | When the city lists it | Sometimes |
| Owner mailing address for follow-on work | ✓ | — |
| Plain-English job description | ✓ | Raw city codes |
| Delivered | Email by 7am + CSV | Log in and search |
| Price | $49/month, cancel anytime | Often priced per lead or per seat |
Because they have to hire one for every house, and paint is late in the schedule. Builders replace crews that miss dates. Being the painter who called early, with a price and a portfolio, is how you get the next house.
No. For work that follows a job, like patching after a foundation lift, you get the owner of record and their mailing address from the appraisal district, for mail outreach. We never include homeowners who've had their records kept confidential.
Repaints don't need a permit, so they never appear in city records. We only send jobs where a permit tells us paint is coming.
Every lead comes straight from a permit the city issued, checked against every sub-permit on the same job, so we know who's already named. The "why" line tells you exactly which rule made it a lead. The job value and contractor phone are whatever the city recorded; when the city left them blank, so do we.
No phone numbers. Most leads are the contractor running the job, with their phone when the city lists it, which is most of the time. For work that follows a job, like a fence after a new pool, you get the owner of record and their mailing address from the Travis Central Appraisal District's public tax roll, ready for a mailer, plus whether they live there and when they bought. Owners who've had the appraisal district keep their records confidential are never included.
Most lists sort permits by the trade on the permit, so a roofer gets a list of roofs other roofers already sold. We sort by the trades the job still needs. We check every sub-permit filed for the job so we never send you one where your trade is already named, and every lead says in one line why it's yours.
Yes. Building permits and the appraisal roll are public records, and calling a contractor about work on their job is ordinary business. Owner records are for mail outreach only, which you agree to in our terms, and we remove any owner who asks. You're responsible for following do-not-call and anti-solicitation rules where they apply.
Yes. It's month to month with a 14-day free trial and no contract. Cancel or update your card anytime from the link in any digest email.
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