The Construction Monitor alternative built on the full public record

Construction Monitor has sold weekly building-permit lead reports to contractors and suppliers for decades, delivered as regional spreadsheets and a portal.

Teams usually switch to (or add) Sunwrit for reasons that come down to the data model: code violations alongside permits, owner data on the record, and flat pricing that doesn't tax your volume.

Freshness

Construction Monitor: Weekly report cadence.

Sunwrit: Daily ingestion with same-day alerts.

Violations

Construction Monitor: Permit-only.

Sunwrit: Permits + code violations in one unified, scored database.

Product

Construction Monitor: Spreadsheet-era delivery.

Sunwrit: Map-first explorer, entity pages, API access.

Scoring

Construction Monitor: Raw permit lists.

Sunwrit: 0–100 opportunity score on every record, transparent weights.

Construction Monitor alternative for permit & violation leads · Sunwrit