Now covering Pierce County, WA — rolling out nationwide, county by county.
Every week, Build Brief sends you the new public construction bids and commercial building permits across your county — each one tagged by trade, so you see the work that's yours and skip the rest. The records are public. We're the ones who read all of them, every week.
What you get
Public construction bid solicitations in your county, while there's still time to bid — not news of who won after it's over.
New commercial building permits as they're filed and issued: who's building what, where, and roughly what it's worth.
Every item carries the trades it needs, so a concrete sub and an electrician reading the same brief each find their own work fast.
Each item links back to the public record it came from. We tag and organize; we never stand between you and the source.
How it works
Every week we pull the public bid solicitations and the commercial building permits filed across your county — the same records anyone could read, if anyone had the hours to read all of them.
Each bid and permit is read and tagged by the trades it actually needs — concrete, framing, mechanical, electrical, high-voltage, steel — so you see the ones that are your work and skip the ones that aren't.
One email a week: the new work in your county, grouped by trade, each item with its reference, its value or its due date, and a link to the source record. Read it in five minutes.
What a typical issue looks like
A sample of what lands in the brief — genuine public bids and commercial permits from the Pierce County area, tagged by trade. Not a mockup; these are real filings.
Each item in a live issue links back to the public record it came from. Your first weekly issue is free, so you see exactly this before you pay for a second.
Pricing
Founding price
Founding price for the first counties — your first weekly issue is free.
Pierce County, WA is live now. More counties open by waitlist demand — if yours isn't covered yet, join the waitlist and you move it up the list.
Join the waitlist
Tell us your county and your trade. We open counties in the order the waitlist asks for them, so every request genuinely moves yours up. We'll email you the week it goes live.
Prefer email? Write to [email protected] with your county and trade.
Questions & answers
Public records — county and municipal building-permit filings and public bid solicitations. We read them every week, tag each item by trade, and link you back to the source. Nothing here is private or scraped from behind a login.
Pierce County, Washington is live now. We're rolling out nationwide one county at a time, in the order the waitlist asks for them — join the waitlist for your county and you move it up the list.
$129 a month — a founding price for the first counties. Your first weekly issue is free, so you can see exactly what lands in your inbox before you pay for a second.
Once a week. One email with the new bids and permits in your county since the last issue, grouped by trade. It's built to be read in five minutes, not to bury you in a feed.
It's public information, organized — the records are open to anyone who has the hours to read them. What you're paying for is that we read all of them for you every week and tag them by trade, not for exclusivity on a public filing.
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