Kansas City metro
Know about the job before the bidding starts.
Anvil Radar reads the cities’ own permit records every night and sends you one email each morning: the new commercial construction in your territory, sorted so the thing worth knowing is at the top.
On Kansas City permits it also tells you who is on the job — the contractor and applicant the city names in its own record.
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What arrives
One email, every weekday morning
New commercial permits from the last day, grouped so a seven-permit fit-out reads as one job rather than seven.
Ranked, not dumped
Sorted by a blend of reported value, apparent scale, kind of work and recency — because only one of the three cities publishes valuations, and sorting on a field that is usually blank sorts on nothing.
Issued and not-yet-issued, kept apart
Work that is starting sits above work still in plan review. The second list is the earlier warning: those jobs have not been bid.
The address, mapped
Every lead links to the site. Permit numbers included, so you can take it back to the city yourself.
Who is on the job
Most permit feeds tell you a building is being worked on and stop there. The open data Kansas City publishes stops there too. But the city’s own permitting portal — the system it issues those permits from — names the applicant and the licensed contractor on the record. Anvil Radar reads that, matches the company against the Johnson County, Kansas City and Missouri licence rosters, and puts the result in the email:
A real entry from the sample below — a battery plant upgrade in Kansas City.
Every claim carries the evidence behind it. Verified means the city published that name against that permit. Weaker inferences are labelled as inferences, and where we know nothing the line is simply absent — a blank is more useful than a guess you would have to check.
The limit, plainly: this works on Kansas City permits, which is where it comes from. Overland Park runs the same permitting software and does not serve those names to the public; Lee’s Summit uses a different system that does not either. Their permits arrive complete in every other respect and without names. We will keep asking both cities.
What is covered
Three jurisdictions today. These are the cities in the metro that publish machine-readable permit data a nightly pipeline can depend on — we checked the rest, and most of them publish nothing.
| Kansas City, MO | names included | Permits, plus the contractor and applicant named on the city’s record |
| Overland Park, KS | permits only | Permits, valuations and square footage. No names published |
| Lee's Summit, MO | permits only | Permits, including work still in plan review. No names published |
Commercial work only. House remodels and single-family builds are filtered out before the email is written.
A real digest
Not a mock-up. This is an actual morning’s email, generated from live permit data across all three cities, with the recipient’s address removed.
Start a free trial
14 days, all three cities, no card. We will email you a link to confirm the address — the first digest arrives the morning after you click it.
Questions
Where does the data come from?
Each city's own open permit feed, read every night, plus Kansas City's public permitting portal for the contractor and applicant names. Nothing here is scraped from behind a login or a paywall.
How current is it?
The feeds are read nightly and the digest goes out at 6:30am Central. A permit issued yesterday is in this morning's email.
What happens after the trial?
The digests stop and we email you once to ask whether you want to keep them. That is the only message you get after 14 days unless you subscribe.
Can I get one city instead of three?
Not from this page yet. Reply to any digest and we will set it up.
Do you cover residential?
No. Commercial only, deliberately — single-family work is filtered out before the email is written.