RoofSignal — Chicago Roofing Contractor Activity Intelligence

Why suppliers use permit activity

Account prospecting with proof of activity: a contractor pulling permits every week is buying material every week — from someone. Permit-report prospecting is a decades-old distributor practice; we make it current-week fresh for one metro and one trade.
Territory truth: see reported permit values and volumes by contractor — who is scaling up, who went quiet.
Not homeowner leads: this is business-to-business intelligence about licensed contractor businesses. We exclude homeowner personal information entirely — if you want homeowner contact leads, other services sell those; we deliberately don't.

Live sample — most active contractors (last 21 days)

Real records, generated 2026-08-31. Duplicate corporate spellings merged. Each subscriber row links back to the official city record for verification.

#	Contractor of record	Permits	Main category	Reported permit value
1	Sunrun Installation Services	198	Solar on roof	$4,238,040
2	Current Electric, Llc	32	Garage / porch structures	$1,030,171
3	Certified Electric Llc	22	Solar on roof	$603,888
4	Sunrise Solar Llc	13	Solar on roof	$222,869
5	Garage 2017 Llc Dba Danley'S Garage World	11	Garage / porch structures	$449,202
6	The Garage Guy Inc Dba Absolute Garage Builders, I	11	Garage / porch structures	$339,704
7	Pacc Construction Llc Dba Pacc Building Group Llc	10	Roofing (tear-off / re-roof / repair)	$216,647
8	Wirehaus	8	Solar on roof	$138,922
9	Better Built Lumber & Supply, Inc.	6	Garage / porch structures	$175,650
10	Exceptional Exteriors Pllc	6	Roofing (tear-off / re-roof / repair)	$104,827

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Founding subscriber offer

$29 first month, charged today · then $49/month · cancel anytime

Weekly feed (CSV + readable digest) — every roofing-scope permit newly published that week
Contractor activity rankings — permits, categories and reported values per business, spellings merged
Categories separated — roofing (tear-off/re-roof/repair) vs solar-on-roof vs garage/porch structures
Verifiable — every record links to the official City of Chicago source row

Billing terms, plainly: you pay $29 today for your first month. It renews automatically at $49/month from month two. Cancel anytime from your receipt email; cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period. 7-day money-back guarantee on the first payment. No contracts.

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How we're different

Permit-lead products in Chicago mostly sell homeowner contact leads to contractors (e.g., PermitDrop, from $299/mo) or bid signals to other trades (e.g., Kova Signals). RoofSignal is neither: it's contractor-activity intelligence for the businesses that sell to contractors — suppliers, distributors, and services. National permit databases start around $99–$599/mo and cover everything shallowly; we cover one metro and one trade properly, for $49.