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SolarLead is a real-time solar permit intelligence platform. We aggregate every residential solar permit filed across 3,690+ US and Canadian cities into one searchable feed, enrich each lead with contractor and, in supported regions, property data, and put a Sonnet-class AI on top so sales teams can query the entire market in plain English. Built for installers who want to stop paying lead vendors and start working from public records.

A lead generator collects homeowner interest through online ads and forms, then resells the same lead to four installers. A permit intelligence platform tracks homeowners who have already decided to install and filed paperwork, so they are past the interest stage. Lead generators compete on funnel volume; permit platforms compete on coverage and speed to signal. Most installers should run both, but the permit layer is the part nobody else offers.

It is built for solar installers doing 30 to 500 residential systems a year, with 3 to 30 sales reps. Below that range the ROI math gets thin: if you close under two installs a month, the time on the platform outweighs the lead-cost savings. Above it, custom integrations and enterprise pricing make more sense, so talk to us directly. In the sweet spot, 599 dollars a month pays back on the third install you would have lost to a lead-gen list.

SolarLead is in early access, onboarding our first 10 pilot installers through June 2026. We work directly with each one to make sure the product solves their real problem before opening broader access. If you want to be one of those 10, get in touch. Customer logos and case studies will be added here as pilots wrap and customers consent.

Ask is a conversational interface to the entire permit database. Type a question like which contractors gained ground in San Diego last month, and you get a real, sourced answer in seconds, built from live queries the AI runs against the data, not a chatbot guess. Every answer includes citations to specific permits or contractors, so you can drill in directly. It replaces the half-day a sales analyst would spend pulling the same report.

Every permit includes address, system size, contractor, and filing date. In Alberta, SolarLead also enriches each lead with assessed value, lot size, year built, and neighborhood, sourced from Calgary and Edmonton open-data portals: 25,694 leads enriched, with a 96.3 percent match rate in Calgary and 95.5 percent in Edmonton. US property data is in active development. The point is simple: stop calling addresses, start calling houses you already know the value of.

Most major markets refresh within 24 hours of a permit being filed. A handful of municipalities publish monthly rather than daily, often the PDF-based ones, and we flag those so you know exactly what you are looking at. Every record shows its filing date, so you can sort and filter by freshness yourself.

Real-time permit data goes back to when each scraper came online, and most cities cover 2 to 10 years of history. We also maintain a separate California baseline of 3.58 million installations going back to 2005, sourced from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Tracking the Sun dataset. That baseline is anonymized, with no homeowner addresses, and is used for pricing trends, system-size analysis, and storage attach rates, not for prospecting.

Every permit has a filing date, so your territory is segmentable by install age. Fresh permits, 0 to 30 days, are new-install prospects. Systems 1 to 2 years in are service and recurring-contract candidates. 2 to 5 year systems are storage-retrofit prospects, since battery prices have dropped sharply since most of them installed. 5 to 10 year systems are upgrade candidates as warranties lapse and hardware ages. Systems 10 years and older are replacement candidates, with loans cleared and hardware ready to swap. Same dataset, five different sales motions.

3,690+ cities across all 50 US states and 10 Canadian provinces. Coverage is densest in mature solar markets like California, Texas, Florida, Arizona, Massachusetts, New York, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta, and it expands every week. If we do not have your city yet, ask and we will add it.

Yes. Every permit includes the installing contractor, and the Contractors view ranks 4,300+ active installers by permit volume, growth rate, and geographic expansion. Click any contractor for their full activity: top cities, recent permits, and the new markets they just entered. This is where many of our customers spend half their time.

Every permit, contractor view, and AI Ask answer exports to CSV for import into any CRM, and native integrations with the major solar CRMs are on the roadmap. SolarLead does not replace your CRM; it feeds it cleaner, faster signal than any lead vendor will.