Texas HVAC · Contractor Intelligence · Distributors & OEMs

See which contractors are
winning jobs in your territory —
before your reps make a single call.

LeadSpringer tracks mechanical permit activity across Texas — daily. Every contractor is ranked by volume, commercial weight, and license class, then matched against TDLR records. Your reps open it Monday morning. They know exactly who to call, who's ramping, and who's gone quiet.

Built for HVAC distributors and OEM sales teams. Public records only — no surveys, no self-reported data.

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19,274
Active HVAC licenses
TDLR FY2026
3
Metro markets
Austin · Dallas · SA
600+
Permits extracted
per monthly cycle
24–48h
City API sync lag
permit to digest
The Problem

Why distributors lose
territory share without knowing it

✗ Reps call accounts based on relationships and gut feel — not who's actually pulling permits this week
✗ High-volume contractors ramp up and switch suppliers before your team notices the shift
✗ Territory reviews happen quarterly — but contractor activity shifts weekly
✗ Dormant accounts look fine in your CRM until a competitor has already captured the volume
What Changes

Weekly permit signal.
Territory intelligence.
Rep-ready Monday morning.

→ Every active contractor ranked by permit volume, commercial weight, and license class — verified weekly
→ Your existing accounts flagged when they spike in permit activity — priority call list auto-generated
→ Dormant accounts surface when permit activity drops — catch churn before it shows in revenue
→ Territory breakdown by metro, county, and zip — built for quarterly rep planning
Who This Is For
HVAC Distributors
Regional and national distributors with Texas territory. Know which contractors are growing before your reps call the wrong accounts.
Electrical Distributors
We track mechanical permits only — not electrical. But commercial HVAC installs and electrical work land on the same job site, usually within weeks of each other. Useful as a co-signal, not a substitute for electrical permit data.
OEM Sales Directors
Track which dealers and contractors are active in each metro. Useful for R-454B transition planning and dealer performance benchmarking.
Territory Managers
Weekly signal for rep routing and quarterly territory reviews. Replace stale CRM data with permit-verified activity snapshots.

Sample Extract — Last 30 Days

Austin · Dallas · San Antonio · Top by permit volume

Score 1–10. Commercial weight ×1.5. License class verified against TDLR. Est. value from permit declared value where filed.

# Contractor Market License (TDLR) Permits (30d) Comm / Res Score Est. Value / Mo
01 Michael McCoy Austin TACLB089234C ✓ 10 0C / 10R 7.0 $45,000
02 Tu Huynh Austin TACLB027891E ✓ 9 9C / 0R 6.0 $108,000
03 Tamara Enfield Austin TACLB043219A ✓ 8 0C / 8R 7.8 $36,000
14 Kyle Bacon Austin TACLB056782B ✓ 3 2C / 1R 8.7 $28,500
+ 21 additional contractors in the full weekly extract

Contractor names from Austin public permit records, last 90 days. Row 14 (Kyle Bacon) included to illustrate score vs. volume: 3 permits, 2 commercial — scores higher than contractors with 3× the volume. License numbers shown in TDLR format — verified match included in full report. TACLB = commercial class, TACLA = residential class.

How Teams Use This

Four workflows that run on permit data

Rep Routing
Call the contractors pulling permits this week — not last quarter's list
Each Monday, reps get a ranked list of the most active contractors in their territory. High-volume commercial contractors with verified TDLR licenses surface first. No more cold calls based on stale CRM data.
Account Expansion
Existing accounts spiking in permits — but not in your sales data
Overlay your account list against the weekly extract. When a current customer doubles their permit volume, your rep sees it before they switch suppliers for the extra orders.
Dormant Account Alerts
Accounts gone quiet in your system — but still pulling permits
A contractor who stops ordering but keeps pulling permits is buying from someone else. LeadSpringer surfaces these weekly so reps can re-engage before the relationship is gone.
Territory Planning
Quarterly territory reviews built on actual market activity
Activity breakdown by metro, county, and zip. See where commercial volume is concentrating, which submarkets are growing, and how to align rep territories with where the work is happening.

What's Delivered

Weekly. Monday morning. Formatted for your workflow.

CSV
Weekly contractor digest
Top 25 contractors ranked by score. Columns: contractor, market, license, permits, commercial/residential split, score, estimated monthly value.
MATCH
Account list overlay
Send your Salesforce account list. We flag which existing accounts are in the top-volume contractors this week — priority call list for your reps.
MAP
Territory breakdown
Activity by metro, county, and zip. Useful for quarterly rep territory reviews and spotting micro-markets before competitors do.
Delivery Options
Email CSV to reps All tiers
Salesforce account matching Statewide+
Salesforce call task creation Statewide+
API data feed Enterprise
White-label Enterprise

Pilot Pricing

4-week commitment. If your reps don't act on the data, we refund the pilot. No questions.

Regional Pilot
1–2 metro markets · Weekly CSV · Top 25 contractors · TDLR match
$2,500/mo
Start pilot →
Statewide
All TX markets · Salesforce account overlay · Territory by rep · Quarterly trend report
$10,000/mo
Request proposal →
Enterprise OEM
R-454B transition signals · Dealer warranty correlation · Multi-state · API feed · White-label
Custom
Contact us →

Methodology

How data is sourced, scored, and delivered. No black box.

01 — Data Source

Mechanical permits pulled daily from city open data portals via Socrata API.

  • Austin: data.austintexas.gov
  • Dallas: www.dallasopendata.com
  • San Antonio: data.sanantonio.gov

Structured API queries, no scraping. Data updates when the city posts it — typically 24–48h after filing.

02 — License Match

Contractor names matched against TDLR bulk CSV (FY2026, 19,274 active HVAC licenses).

  • TACLB — commercial license class
  • TACLA — residential license class
  • Match: name + city fuzzy match
  • Mismatches flagged ⚠ in digest

Source: Texas Open Data Portal. Updated when TDLR publishes new bulk export.

03 — Scoring Model

Each contractor scored 1–10 across 7 signals. Commercial work weighted 1.5×.

  • permit_volume (30d)
  • commercial_ratio
  • license_class_match
  • permit_value_declared
  • geographic_concentration
  • recency_trend (7d vs 30d)
  • license_expiry_status
Why Not Just Pull It Yourself

This isn't something your analyst builds in a week

Every city's API is different. The permit data is messy. The hard part isn't the download — it's building a system that runs reliably every week and produces signal your reps can actually act on.

Multi-city aggregation
Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio each use different API schemas, field names, and permit type codes. Building a unified schema across all three took months — and breaks every time a city changes their format.
TDLR name matching
Permit filers use nicknames, abbreviations, and entity names that don't match their TDLR license. The fuzzy-match pipeline handles thousands of edge cases and flags mismatches rather than silently dropping them.
Commercial weighting
Raw permit volume is a poor signal — a contractor with 3 commercial jobs outranks one with 12 residential flips in terms of supply value. The scoring model is the product. It took real market feedback to calibrate.
Weekly automation
Data pulls, deduplication, scoring, and rep-ready delivery run automatically every week. Your analyst doesn't maintain it. No one does — until a city API breaks, which we fix before Monday morning.

Request the Sample Report

Last 30 days of permit activity in your territory. No charge. No pitch call. If the data is useful, we'll talk pilots.

→ Delivered within 24h
→ Top 25 contractors by volume
→ TDLR license match included
→ We follow up by email only