Electrical contractors
Spot Toronto electrical work, not just renovations
See which records state electrical scope and which only imply it, without reading every renovation.
- Service upgrades
- Panels and distribution
- Lighting retrofits
- EV and solar load
Built for Electrical
Sign in. Start finding opportunities.
- Sign inNo training course.
- Spot opportunitiesProjects for your niche.
- Save your shortlistWork worth pursuing.
- Follow upTrack changes. Plan your next call.
Check daily for new matches as sources update. Saved lists stay private; share reviewed PDF reports.
Find the right projects. Follow their progress. Know when to act.
Keep relevant electrical projects in view for months. A dated change gives your trade sales team a reason to review the evidence and plan the next call.
Find your kind of work
Start with service upgrades. Narrow by keyword or scope, area, project or building type, stage, dates and reported estimate.
Save
Keep only the projects you choose on a private shortlist.
See dated movement
Source-backed changes to saved records appear with their dates as in-app notifications.
Add private notes
Log calls and follow-ups. A date typed in a note is text, not a reminder.
Share reviewed reports
Create a draft, review and confirm it, then export a PDF when you choose.
Request AI research
Where available, request source-linked project, company, professional-person or contact research. Findings are unverified.
Illustrative project tracker
A project naming service upgrades fits your area. Save it and review its application date.
An in-app notification prompts you to reopen the same project's source. Review the change and its evidence.
If you make a call, add a private note: “Asked about service upgrades; confirm scope and purchasing status before following up.” Decide whether to act or keep watching.
Scope, filters and timing for Electrical
Matches come from published permit wording and are narrowed by supported filters. Read application, issue, source-update and observed-movement dates separately; they are not construction start dates, bid dates or buying windows. The reported estimate is the City's figure, not a budget or contract value. Use the available date filters and list sorts to order your research, not a personalized ranking or score.
Electrical scope: Wiring, panel, lighting and power wording in the published scope maps to the Electrical niche before your own filters apply.
Electrical timing: Dated movement on a saved record tells you when to reopen the source instead of re-reading the whole list.
Electrical jobs: Service upgrades, Panels and distribution, Lighting retrofits, EV and solar load.
AI research, contacts and provider charges
Explicitly requested AI-assisted research uses source-linked public-web information about a project, relevant business or professional person. Nothing runs automatically. Each research run you request incurs provider charges; availability depends on eligible account access, lead eligibility and provider configuration and controls. Findings remain unverified until checked, may be partial, and do not become verified project evidence. Check citations and professional role relevance; contact discovery is not guaranteed. No automatic outreach or dedicated Google or LinkedIn scraping is promised.
Private accounts, notifications and reports
Saving new jobs requires current qualified records and eligible signed-in access. Saved jobs, notes and reports are private to your account, including individual logins under shared billing; this is not a shared CRM. Notes do not schedule reminders. Changes to saved records appear as in-app notifications for eligible signed-in members, with no email, push or real-time monitoring promise. Reports require eligible membership: select projects, draft, review and confirm before downloading a PDF. Scheduled source checks can lag or fail; inspect each record's source date.
In setup, choose Electrical as your trade niche. You can revisit the choice in Settings.
Source policy · filtering uses published City records, and source checks are scheduled and can lag.
Source checks and qualification before outreach
- Scheduled City-source ingestion
- PermitClue is designed to ingest published City of Toronto records on a daily schedule. Source checks can lag or fail, so read the source date rather than assuming the record is current.
- Qualify before outreach
- Build a focused trade prospect list, not a list of confirmed buyers. A match does not confirm a buyer or purchase. Business contacts are shown as verified only when explicitly published and verified; unverified research is labelled separately. Outreach remains your team's decision.
Stated electrical scope versus a project that will need power
— qualified permit records
Verified count loads separately when available.
Default niche rules; direct, qualified source-backed matches. A permit can match several niches: do not add these counts together. These are not buyers, bids or purchase requests.
Official City sourceAlmost every building needs electrical work, which is exactly why a building alone is weak evidence. Prioritize records whose published text names electrical systems, wiring or lighting.
Direct fit
Stated in the official record
- Electrical systems, wiring, panels or lighting named in the work description
- Power distribution or service upgrade wording in the published scope
- Electrical content tied to the permit record itself
Inferred fit
Plausible, but your judgement
- A change of use or fit-out that may need new circuits
- A large addition where electrical is probable but unstated
- Neighbouring trades in the same record, such as solar or HVAC, that may imply load changes
Not established
Verify elsewhere
- Load calculations, panel sizes or equipment specifications
- Whether electrical is bundled with a general contractor's package
- Contract value, bid status or buyer
A qualification workflow for Electrical
Choose Electrical in setup
Pick the trade niche at sign-up; revisit it any time in Settings.
Layer filters
Combine keyword, building type, area, reported estimate and published scope. Narrower queries yield fewer, better-evidenced rows.
Open the source and grade the fit
Record whether the electrical evidence is direct or inferred. Note the dates and what each represents.
Save, then draft a report if you need to share
Select records to start a report draft, review and confirm it, then download a PDF. Reports need sign-in and eligible membership.
Source dates and overlapping niches
Read the date before the match
Every record links to its official source. Application, issue and update dates mean different things, and PermitClue checks official sources on a schedule that can be delayed. Always inspect the source date shown on the record.
One permit, several niches
Default niche membership overlaps. A single permit can qualify for more than one niche, so counts across niches must not be added together or read as a number of buyers.
Toronto, not the GTA
Coverage is City of Toronto permit data. Read how Toronto building permits work and the source-use policy.
Timing without overclaiming
- Permit stage is a prompt to re-check, not a measure of readiness to buy.
- A saved record that changes is a reason to reopen the source, not proof that work is available.
- Check whether the electrical wording describes new work, repair or retained equipment.
- Confirm the procurement route before any outreach.
More on permit movement and project timing. Timing is a prompt to research, not evidence that anyone is ready to buy.
What to pass to your sales or estimating lead
- Permit identifier and the electrical wording as published
- Direct or inferred, in one sentence
- Dates and their meaning
- Questions: who holds electrical, is there a bid route
Inside the app you can search permits with keyword, area, building type, estimate and scope filters, keep private saved jobs, and see source-backed updates to saved records in the app. Reports move from draft to review to confirmed PDF and need sign-in and eligible membership. Contact investigation runs only where a cited business role and freshness can be verified. See what PermitClue does.
Questions to ask before you rely on a match
Will it list every described electrical system?
No. The niche is based on published wording, and not every described system is classified automatically. Verify each record against its source.
Does a solar permit count as electrical?
Not automatically. Solar has its own niche, and overlap depends on what the record states.
Are updates sent by email?
No. Source-backed updates for saved records appear in the app for eligible signed-in members.
Start with the record, then decide
Create an account, choose Electrical as your trade niche, and open the first source-linked record. A match does not guarantee contracts, buyers or available work.