Government Data Infrastructure

Every public record.
One clean API.

Be the first to know when a homeowner gets cited, a business registers, a property changes hands, or a project breaks ground. Threshmoor turns scattered government records into signals you can act on.

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GET /permits

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: thresh_live_..." \\n  "https://api.threshmoor.com/permits?limit=3&permit_type=Building"

Response

{
  "jurisdiction": "Austin, TX",
  "count": 3,
  "permits": [
    {
      "permit_number":  "2026-076303 BP",
      "permit_type":    "Building Permit",
      "work_class":     "Demolition",
      "status":         "Active",
      "description":    "Total demo of sfr 1299 sqft",
      "issued_date":    "2026-06-16T00:00:00.000",
      "applied_date":   "2026-06-04T00:00:00.000",
      "address":        "2817 E 22ND ST",
      "city":           "AUSTIN",
      "zip":            "78722",
      "valuation":      "0",
      "contractor":     "Joseph Design Build",
      "latitude":       "30.28405859",
      "longitude":      "-97.71079459",
      "jurisdiction":   "Austin, TX"
    }
  ]
}

Why it matters

What a record actually means

Every record is a signal that someone is about to spend money, or has no choice but to. Here is how to read them.

Code violations

The “must fix” signal

When a city cites a property for overgrown grass, a damaged structure, or a nuisance, the owner is typically required to fix it, on a deadline, or face fines. That’s not a maybe. A landscaper who sees today’s overgrown-vegetation citations has a list of people who need a landscaper this week.

Overgrown grass citation → landscaping lead

Building permits

The “money in motion” signal

A permit means someone is actively investing in a property right now. New construction needs subcontractors, suppliers, and equipment. A remodel often leads to follow-on work like solar, HVAC, or landscaping. Active project, active budget.

Roofing permit → solar and gutter follow-ons

Business filings

The “day one” signal

A newly registered business needs almost everything at once: insurance, signage, equipment, marketing, bookkeeping, a point of sale. Threshmoor pulls from state filing feeds and verified city registrations.

New LLC filing → insurance, signage, B2B services

Land development

The earliest signal

Rezonings, variances, and development applications show construction before it breaks ground, often months before any permit exists. If you sell to builders and developers, this is as early as it gets.

Property records

The “new owner” signal

A property transfer means a new owner, and new owners change things: renovations, landscaping, security, service providers. The weeks after a sale are when buying decisions get made.

The problem

Public data is everywhere. Getting it shouldn’t be.

Thousands

of jurisdictions, each with its own portal, format, and quirks

No standard

field names, date formats, and response shapes. Every city does it differently

Manual work

logging into portals, scraping pages, parsing documents, for every city and every data type

The solution

One schema per vertical.
Every city.

Every record, across all five verticals, regardless of which jurisdiction it came from or how it was sourced, is normalized into a clean, consistent schema. Build your integration once and it works everywhere, for every city and data type we add.

The jurisdiction field is always present in every vertical. Every other field returns null rather than crashing if the source doesn’t provide it.

Permits · 15 fields

permit_numberstring | null

permit_typestring | null

work_classstring | null

statusstring | null

descriptionstring | null

issued_datestring | null

applied_datestring | null

addressstring | null

citystring | null

zipstring | null

valuationstring | null

contractorstring | null

latitudestring | null

longitudestring | null

jurisdictionstring

Built for

Anyone who needs government data at scale

Solar installers & home services

Reach homeowners the moment they pull a building permit — the sweet spot for solar, HVAC, and landscaping.

Contractors & restoration teams

Turn fresh code violations into warm leads instead of cold calls.

B2B sellers & local agencies

Surface newly registered businesses from state filings and city feeds — ahead of your competitors.

Investors & proptech platforms

Track new owners and deal flow, and build on clean, structured property data.

Multi-market teams

Every jurisdiction and vertical through one API — no more portal-hopping city to city.

Coverage

Starting where the data is clean. Going where it’s not.

The API launches with cities that publish open data and expands from there, including jurisdictions that have no clean API at all. The ones that require pulling data straight from portals and documents? That hard-to-reach data is the long-term moat.

San Francisco, CA