Earlier timing
Planning, plat, and pre-construction signal — not just permits that have already been bid out by everyone else.
King Lead Lab tracks Houston-area planning, permitting, procurement, and public-bid activity and turns it into a working pipeline — filtered to your trade, with builder and owner contact paths attached, not just an address and a permit number. Oil & gas equipment vendors get statewide Texas coverage instead, tracking drilling permits everywhere the Railroad Commission regulates.
Most contractors find out about a project from a permit board, a referral, or a competitor's truck in the parking lot — well after the general contractor has lined up its first-call subs. Getting in front of the opportunity earlier is the entire game, no matter which trade you sell.
Source: Zabalist Houston-metro project data, pulled August 2026. Most public-record leads never publish a dollar figure at all — that gap is exactly what a permit board or a national database misses, and exactly what King Lead Lab is built to catch earlier.
Planning, plat, and pre-construction signal — not just permits that have already been bid out by everyone else.
Every record is scored against 40+ trade categories, so you see the work you actually bid and nothing else.
Builder, owner, and buyer contacts where available, so outreach starts on day one instead of week three.
A saved-pipeline workflow with follow-up dates and deal status, so the feed becomes a working sales tool.
A paving contractor and a security integrator should never see the same list. King Lead Lab scores every record across the full range of commercial trades, then shows you only your slice.
Earthwork, paving, underground utilities, drainage, water and wastewater, landscaping, fencing, and heavy civil.
Electrical, mechanical and HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, elevator, controls and automation, generators.
Concrete, masonry, structural steel, roofing, glazing and curtain wall, waterproofing and insulation.
Drywall and framing, flooring, painting, millwork, doors and hardware, ceilings, furnishings, commercial kitchen.
Structured cabling, security and access control, commercial A/V, and managed IT infrastructure work.
Demolition, environmental and abatement, solar and EV charging, signage, and commercial facility services.
Wellhead and production equipment, tanks and pressure vessels, valves and actuators, artificial lift, compressor packaging, and gas processing — tracked from Texas Railroad Commission drilling permits across the whole state, not just Houston.
Everything is scored for trade relevance and project scale before it reaches your dashboard.
48 county, city, ISD, and special-district agenda sources plus 12 individual MUD/WCID feeds, across all 8 Houston-metro counties.
Agendas, plats, permits, and bid boards pulled and parsed every morning.
Every record scored against 40+ commercial trade categories.
Filtered to the work you sell, with contact paths and bid deadlines attached.
We work sources across the Houston metro that most databases don't bother with, then score every record for the trades that can bid it.
Builder, owner, architect, and engineer information attached to each record, so your team knows who to call first.
Save opportunities, track status from new to won, set follow-up dates, and export your pipeline to CSV.
Sign in with your work email, activate in one checkout, and your feed is live. No approval queue, no sales call.