Trade contractors: General Contracting
Toronto additions and major renovations, found by scope instead of by scrolling
Your team skips minor permits and starts with records describing additions, new construction or major structural work.
- Rear and second-storey additions
- Gut renovations
- New infill builds
- Commercial alterations
Built for General Contracting
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- 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 general contracting 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 rear and second-storey additions. 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 rear and second-storey additions 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 rear and second-storey additions; confirm scope and purchasing status before following up.” Decide whether to act or keep watching.
Scope, filters and timing for General Contracting
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.
General Contracting scope: Addition, new-build and major-alteration wording in the published scope is matched to General Contracting, then narrowed by area, building type and estimate.
General Contracting timing: Application, issue and update dates are shown separately, so you can review a freshly issued addition before an older one.
General Contracting jobs: Rear and second-storey additions, Gut renovations, New infill builds, Commercial alterations.
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.
Filtering runs on published City of Toronto records. Official sources are checked on a schedule and can lag. Source policy · Official City source
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.
Which projects fit this niche?
Direct fit
- Addition, new building or major renovation named in the work description
- Structural alteration stated in the published scope
Contextual
- A building type that often needs a builder but does not describe the work
Save only the leads you choose. Notes are private to your account, and changes to saved records appear in the app. There is no email or push promise.
Evidence and questions
Evidence limits for General Contracting
Permit records cover only permit-triggering structural and major work. The applicant listed is not necessarily the party hiring a builder.
A permit can match several niches, so counts must not be added together or read as buyers. Coverage is Toronto, not the whole GTA. Read the source-use policy and how permit movement relates to timing. Timing prioritises research; it is not a procurement window.
— 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 sourceDoes a match mean the general contractor is still open?
No. A permit may already name or imply a builder. Confirm the package before outreach.
What PermitClue does inside the app
Search with keyword, area, building type, estimate and scope filters, keep private saved jobs, and track source-backed movement. Reports need sign-in and eligible membership. See what PermitClue does.