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Connections · Relationship intelligence

Who you already know gets you in.

The designer on your best customer's permits also files for builders you've never called. Warm paths find those people in your own contacts and customers, show the permits that prove it, and help you ask for the intro.

Warm intros to builders filing now
14 paths
Kestrel Developments
4 permits filed since Aug · $6.8M · Townhomes, Single-family
NEW TO YOU
You Dana Whitfield · Harbourline Design Kestrel Developments
Dana Whitfield · from your contacts file, Sep 23
Harbourline Design is the applicant on 3 of Kestrel's recent permits
Dana Whitfield (Harbourline Design) is on Kestrel Developments' permits: 4 filed, $6.8M, since Aug. Harbourline also designs for Northgate Homes, who you sell to. Ask Dana for an introduction.
Draft introCall DanaEmailFollow Kestrel
Why it matters

A cold call is a stranger. An intro is a favour.

Designers file for many builders
The applicant on a permit is often a design or drafting firm with dozens of builder clients. If you know the firm, you're one introduction away from every one of them.
Your contacts know more people than you think
The phone number on a builder's permit is sometimes someone already in your contacts. Nobody connects the two by hand.
Your own builders file again
Follow the builders you already sell to. The day one files a new permit, you hear first, before anyone else calls.
01 · Warm paths

One person you know. Nine builders you don't.

Warm paths start from your own relationships, cross one bridge, and land on a builder filing now that you've never worked with. Through one design firm you already know, that can be a whole season of work.

  • Person
    Someone in your contacts whose phone or email is on another builder's permits
  • Firm
    The design or applicant firm on your builders' permits, filing for builders you don't know
  • Filing now
    Only builders with recent permits, and none you already have a lead on
Through Harbourline Design
Applicant firm · Dana Whitfield is in your contacts
You sell to
Northgate Homes
Ashwood Builders
Pine & Fir Construction
Filing now, not yours
Kestrel Developments$6.8M
Bayside Townhomes Ltd$4.1M
Corbel Homes$2.9M
Marrow Lane Projects$2.2M
+5 more$2.7M
9 builders you don't sell to filed $18.7M through Harbourline in four months.
02 · Every path shows its proof

Nothing guessed. Everything checkable.

A warm path is only as good as the reason behind it, so every hop says where it came from. The note on the card is put together from those facts, not written by AI, so it can't claim a relationship that isn't on file.

Receipts
"From your contacts file, Sep 23" under every hop
Your data only
Built from your own contacts, customers and leads, never another company's
Real permits
The permits that tie the bridge to the builder, one tap away
Draft intro
The email drafter writes the ask from those facts. You send it yourself
Draft intro · to Dana Whitfield
Subject: An introduction to Kestrel?
Hi Dana,

I see Harbourline is on Kestrel Developments' new townhome permits. We've supplied windows on a few Northgate jobs you designed, and I'd love to quote Kestrel's package too. Would you be open to introducing us?

Thanks,
Sam
Dana Whitfield · from your contacts file, Sep 23
Harbourline Design · applicant on 3 of Kestrel's permits
Northgate Homes · on your customer list
You review it and send it from your own inbox.
03 · On every project

Open a permit. See who can introduce you.

When a builder you don't know has a warm path, the project says so, right under why it scored the way it did. One tap shows the whole path. So the rep about to cold-call a builder learns first that a designer they know is on three of that builder's permits.

Project
14 townhomes · 2210 Alder Rd
Kestrel Developments · $3.2M · Filed Oct 14
Why this score
In your trade window: framing just started
Townhomes: a strong fit for what you sell
Filed this week
Warm path:You know Dana Whitfield (Harbourline Design), who is on 3 of this builder's recent permits.
Show path →
04 · Follow your builders

When they file again, you hear first.

Follow the builders you sell to, straight from a map pin, a lead or a warm path. Every new permit they file lands in your inbox and on the map as HOT. Repeat customers go HOT on their own, followed or not.

  • New permits from builders you follow arrive in one email on import day
  • Their permits sit at the top of the HOT band on your map
  • Each builder's profile: permit history, saved contacts, your team's notes
  • Your contacts file matches to builders as soon as you drop it in
Northgate Homes
Builder · on your customer list
Following
New permit filed today · 4410 Ridge Ave · HOT
12
Permits
$48M
Total value
3
Won by you
Recent permits
4410 Ridge Ave
$2.1MHOT
780 Larch St
$4.2MHOT
1840 Harbour Way
$3.4MWON
How it works

From your contacts to an intro.

01
Bring what you have
Your contacts file, your customer list, the builders you follow, the leads you've worked. Nothing new to type.
02
We find the bridges
A person in your contacts, or the design firm on your builders' permits, who also files for builders you don't know.
03
See the proof
Every path shows its receipts: where you know them from, and the permits that connect them to the builder.
04
Ask for the intro
Draft intro writes a short note to the person you know. You read it, you send it, from your own inbox.

Common questions.

Also in BuildMapper

The rest of BuildMapper.

Plus plan takeoffs, Product Brain and the Leak Tracker. See every feature →
Permit Map
Every new permit across British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario, ranked for what you sell.
Scout
AI assistant: looks up builders, finds contacts, drafts the intro.
Pipeline
Your leads in one place, follow-ups booked. See the next move and the whole team.
Find your warm paths

Your next customer is one introduction away.

Free trial access. No card. Drop in your contacts and see who they lead to.