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ClearTract vs. ConstructConnect
A twenty-year national suite with takeoff and bid tools — or one deep Southern California feed where the contact came off the filing. Which fits depends on what you actually need.
Choose ConstructConnect if
- You bid outside Southern California and need national reach.
- You want takeoff and estimating software bundled with your lead data.
- You live in the invite-and-bid network workflow with GCs who post there.
Choose ClearTract if
- Your market is SoCal and you want every filing in it, not a national sample.
- You want your trade filter to run off the permit itself, not a category somebody self-selected.
- You want contacts with provenance — and terms you can walk away from monthly.
| ConstructConnect | ClearTract | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage model | National project database plus bid network | Southern California, wall to wall — 431 cities, 49 counties |
| Product shape | A suite: project data, takeoff, estimating, bid management | One thing done deeply: the lead feed, both grains, linked |
| Trade targeting | CSI-code categories; contractors select their own | Trade derived from the permit type itself, record by record |
| Contacts | Directory model — contractors maintain their own profiles | The parties named on the filing; nobody has to maintain a profile for it to be true |
| Duplicates | — | 1,011,002 permits linked into 590,749 projects before you see a list |
| Pricing | Published entry tiers; annual commitment | Price on the page, month to month (final tiers land at launch) |
ConstructConnect details from their published site and materials, as of July 2026.
Where the contact comes from is the whole difference
A directory is only as good as its upkeep, and directory upkeep is homework nobody does. Our contact graph skips the homework: the parties come off the filings themselves — 247,513 contacts resolved across62,924 firms, each traceable to the public record it appeared on. When a jurisdiction doesn't publish parties, the field says so instead of padding.
Your trade, read from the permit
Self-selected categories drift — people pick broadly to see more work, and then everyone sees the wrong work. We classify from the permit type itself, record by record, so a solar filter returns solar permits. That's the entire feature, and it's the one that decides whether a feed is usable on a Tuesday morning.
One opportunity, one row
A real project generates paperwork for years. We link it before you see it —1,011,002 permits resolving into 590,749 distinct projects — so you chase the job once instead of rediscovering it under four numbers.
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