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The report
Five minutes to read. The calls worth making this week are at the top.
Find your next jobs before they go to bid.
Every week we read your city’s hearings, site plans and permits by hand and send you the commercial jobs worth a call: who to call, when to call, and the filing every line came from.
Live map · Mesa, AZ · updated weekly
This week's projects, on the map.
This is Mesa, one of the cities we read every week. For this week we read 322 pages of city filings and screened 206 building permits to find these. Tap a dot to see what's being built.
The problem
Most subcontractors hear about a job when the bid invite arrives. By then, someone else already made the call.
Right now, in Mesa alone: $60.6M in newly permitted work and 4 projects worth a call this week. Will you hear about them in time?
Why early wins
Same job, two subcontractors. Watch who gets the call.
City approval. The plan passes a public hearing, and it's in this week's Groundwork report.
Design. The design team is still choosing who to work with.
Permit and construction. The permit is issued and the building goes up.
Bid invites go out. Everyone else finds out now, with a deadline.
Finishes and opening. Paving, walls and planting go in. A maintenance contract comes next.
You, with GroundworkSpotted it in this week's report
In early
Other subcontractorsHaven't heard of it yet
Unaware
Your head start0 months
You're talking to the design team while competitors don't know the job exists.
Job at stake
$80,000
Example package · illustrative timeline
On the ground
Every filing we read becomes a real job site.
Our reports reach you around month one. Here is what the months after that look like.
Month 1In your report: walk the site early 
Month 3Grading and site work 
Month 6The building goes up 
Month 10Curbs, walks and hardscape 
Month 13Irrigation goes in 
Month 15Planting crew on site 
Year 2+The maintenance contract
The math
What is hearing late costing you?
Jobs a year I miss because I hear too late
Not sure? Start with one. Think of the last job you only heard about once the bid invite came in.
Profit you leave on the table every year
$12,000
From one missed $80,000 job at a 15% margin.
11years of Groundwork. That's what the profit from one missed job would pay for.
Each square is one year of Groundwork
Break-even: one $7,120 job a year. An illustration, not a promise.
Stop missing jobs
What you get
A weekly report, plus your own subscriber-only portal to work every lead.
Always on · subscriber portal
Your private pipeline
A workstation for your leads: a live map, your pipeline, follow-ups, notes, exports, and the city document behind every line we print.
The real portal, with this week’s projects. Move over it to look closer. Contacts, pipeline and exports unlock on day one of your free trial.
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A single commercial project in city records comes with 30-plus pages of staff reports, narratives and plans, and that's before checking the permits. Tracking every hearing and permit adds up to roughly a day of reading each week. Groundwork turns that into a report you can read in five minutes.
Public records only: city and county planning & zoning agendas, staff reports, project narratives, landscape plans and building-permit data. Every fact in the report shows the document it came from.
National databases cover everything, everywhere, and sell it by the market on a yearly contract. Groundwork reads one area closely: every project is scored for your trade, every line in the portal opens the city document it came from, and you only see what has changed since last week. Every city we cover is included, at $89 a month.
We quote the source for every fact so you can check it. Public records can contain errors and projects change, and bid windows are our estimates. Always confirm details with the project team before pricing a job.
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