Construction Monitor

Construction Monitor aggregates building-permit data from county and municipal sources nationwide and resells it as construction leads, contractor intelligence, and historical permit research. Programmatic access is offered through a REST + JSON API backed by Elasticsearch and a weekly data-dump option delivered over secure FTP. Both channels are account-managed; partners receive credentials and a documented endpoint contract directly from Construction Monitor.

Construction Monitor publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Construction, Contractors, Lead Generation, Permits, and Real-Estate.

Construction Monitor’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 8 more developer resources.

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12.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessFreemium

2 APIs

Construction Contractors Lead Generation Permits Real-Estate

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 12.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.4 / 20

Access Clarity 3.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Construction Monitor Permits API

REST + JSON service backed by Elasticsearch that lets partners search building permits, retrieve full permit detail records, and pull delta updates on a polling schedule. Authen...

Construction Monitor Weekly Data Dump (SFTP)

Weekly bulk delivery of permit records over secure FTP for partners that prefer batch ingestion to live API polling. Suitable for warehousing millions of permits without operati...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Construction Monitor Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Construction Monitor Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Construction Monitor Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Construction Monitor Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact / API Access

Contact / API Access

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Data Products

Data Products

Source (apis.yml)

aid: construction-monitor
name: Construction Monitor
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/construction-monitor/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Construction
- Contractors
- Lead Generation
- Permits
- Real-Estate
tags_raw:
- Construction
- Contractors
- Lead Generation
- Permits
- Real Estate
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/construction-monitor.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2025-02-08'
modified: '2026-04-29'
position: Consuming
specificationVersion: '0.23'
kind: company
description: Construction Monitor aggregates building-permit data from county and municipal sources nationwide and resells
  it as construction leads, contractor intelligence, and historical permit research. Programmatic access is offered through
  a REST + JSON API backed by Elasticsearch and a weekly data-dump option delivered over secure FTP. Both channels are account-managed;
  partners receive credentials and a documented endpoint contract directly from Construction Monitor.
apis:
- aid: construction-monitor:permits-api
  name: Construction Monitor Permits API
  tags:
  - Elasticsearch
  - JSON
  - Permits
  - REST
  humanURL: https://www.constructionmonitor.com/data
  properties:
  - url: https://www.constructionmonitor.com/data
    type: Documentation
  description: REST + JSON service backed by Elasticsearch that lets partners search building permits, retrieve full permit
    detail records, and pull delta updates on a polling schedule. Authentication is handled with a simple API-key scheme provisioned
    per customer. Used to drive lead-generation pipelines, populate CRM and BI tools, and power downstream construction analytics.
- aid: construction-monitor:weekly-ftp
  name: Construction Monitor Weekly Data Dump (SFTP)
  tags:
  - Bulk
  - Data Dump
  - Permits
  - SFTP
  humanURL: https://www.constructionmonitor.com/data
  properties:
  - url: https://www.constructionmonitor.com/data
    type: Documentation
  description: Weekly bulk delivery of permit records over secure FTP for partners that prefer batch ingestion to live API
    polling. Suitable for warehousing millions of permits without operating a live integration.
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/construction-monitor-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Construction-Monitor
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/construction-monitor
- type: Website
  url: https://www.constructionmonitor.com
- type: Data Products
  url: https://www.constructionmonitor.com/data
- type: Contact / API Access
  url: https://www.constructionmonitor.com/contact
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.constructionmonitor.com/blog
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.constructionmonitor.com/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.constructionmonitor.com/terms-of-use
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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