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12 guides on turning permit data into booked work — product walkthroughs, phone playbooks, and the exact scoring math. Most take five minutes.

Product walkthroughs 8 min
Your first 10 minutes in BuildMapper
Set your territory, tell us your trades, and turn the first Hot pin into a pipeline card — the whole loop, start to finish.
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Field playbooks 7 min
Timing your outreach: the trade-window playbook
Every trade has an ideal window measured from the permit date. Call before yours opens — not after it closes.
Read the guide
Reference 6 min
How the fit score works
Five buckets, nine factors, 100 points, no black box. The exact math behind every Hot, Warm, Prospect, and Watch pin.
Read the guide

Product walkthroughs

5 guides

Step-by-step guides to every part of BuildMapper — from your first territory to a pipeline that runs itself.

Your first 10 minutes in BuildMapper
Set your territory, tell us your trades, and turn the first Hot pin into a pipeline card — the whole loop, start to finish.
8 min read
Filtering the map down to your top 10
Thousands of permits pull every week. Stack a few filters so the map shows only the ones worth a call this morning.
6 min read
Asking Scout the right questions
Scout reads your live, scored territory. Phrase prompts so it returns a permit table you can act on — not a paragraph.
6 min read
Move deals through the pipeline
Drag deals across stages, slice the board to find what needs you today, and keep aging leads from going cold.
6 min read
A company profile that wins callbacks
Your public page is what an owner sees when they look you up after your voicemail. Hit 100% completion once and it works on every lead.
5 min read

Field playbooks

3 guides

How the best crews turn permit data into booked work: timing, phone scripts, and reading the paperwork.

Timing your outreach: the trade-window playbook
Every trade has an ideal window measured from the permit date. Call before yours opens — not after it closes.
7 min read
The first call: turning a permit into a conversation
Two minutes of research, one honest opener, and a voicemail that gets returned. The full script.
6 min read
How to read a building permit
Filed vs. issued, declared value, permit class, and who's who on the paperwork — the fields that matter and the ones that mislead.
6 min read

Reference

4 guides

The exact mechanics — score math, a prompt library for Scout, a glossary, and straight answers.

How the fit score works
Five buckets, nine factors, 100 points, no black box. The exact math behind every Hot, Warm, Prospect, and Watch pin.
6 min read
Scout prompt library
Copy-paste prompts that get tables, not paragraphs — grouped by job: finding leads, comparing markets, and working the pipeline.
3 min read
Permit & pipeline glossary
Every term you'll meet in BuildMapper and on the permit paperwork itself, in plain language.
8 min read
Frequently asked questions
Data sources, freshness, the free plan, mobile, privacy — quick answers to the questions everyone asks in week one.
4 min read

Reading about it is the slow way. The map is faster.

Every guide above describes the product you get on day one — a scored map, trade windows, Scout, and a pipeline. Free account, 25 project views, no card.