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.