See the work coming.
Tradewind reads every building permit Fort Worth and Arlington issue and sends you the DFW jobs about to need your trade — the address, what the scope is worth, and the week to make the call. You bid it early instead of hearing about it late.
- Open right now
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- Scope in window
- $695,500
- Retail shell — tenant finish$186,000
Fort Worth · Alliance Gateway
Oct 1 – Nov 10Open · 34d left - Medical office — new construction$412,000
Arlington · S Cooper St
Oct 16 – Dec 7Opens in 9d - Warehouse expansion$97,500
Fort Worth · Meacham
Oct 28 – Dec 20Opens in 21d
- $12B+
- of permitted work tracked across Tarrant County
- 50k+
- building permits indexed, read and dated
- 6am
- daily — filtered to your trade, before the first call
The jobs you lost were never on a list you could see.
Bid it before it becomes a bid list
You get to the job while the scope is still being priced — not after three of your competitors have already put a number on it.
Know what it's worth before you drive
Every lead carries an estimate of what your scope is worth on that job, so a Tuesday goes to the work worth winning instead of the work that was nearby.
One email, then back to work
Filtered to your trade, your counties, and your minimum job size. No dashboard to babysit, no search to remember to run.
Everything you need to make the call.
A lead is not a name and a phone number. It is a job, dated, with a number attached — enough to decide in ten seconds whether it is yours to chase.
- The address, the city, and what the job actually is — in plain language, not permit shorthand.
- An estimate of what the scope is worth to your trade.
- The general contractor or owner named on the job, so you know who to call.
- The window: when the work comes up, and how long it stays worth chasing.
- Grocery anchor — shell$240,000Fort Worth 76244Opens Thu
- School addition$168,000Arlington 76013Opens Mon
- Office remodel — 3 floors$96,000Fort Worth 76102Open now
Your trade, your counties, your minimum job size. Nothing else.
From a filed permit to a job you can bid.
Nothing here is scraped from a competitor or bought from a list broker. Every Tradewind lead is a public building permit, read for the trades its scope calls for and dated to the week that work comes up.
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The city publishes a permit
Fort Worth and Arlington post every building permit they issue to an open-data portal. Tradewind pulls the new ones each morning into one record: address, city, scope of work, declared valuation, and whoever is named on the filing.
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The scope is read for trades
Every permit is classified against a fixed list of 17 trades, from the scope of work the filer actually wrote. A grocery shell needs sitework long before it needs drywall, and the record says so.
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Each trade gets a dated window
Construction scheduling norms turn the issue date into a range per trade — the week the work comes up and the week it stops being worth a call. That date is what makes a permit a lead instead of a record.
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You get only what you can bid
Leads are filtered to your trade, your counties and your minimum job size, ranked by what the scope is worth, and sent as one email before 6am. Anything older than 48 hours is public on this site regardless.
Browse DFW permits by trade
Everything older than 48 hours is public. Fresh leads are behind sign-in.
What subs ask before they trust a lead.
- What is Tradewind?
- Tradewind is a sales lead service for subcontractors in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. It reads the building permits DFW cities publish every day, works out which trades each job will need and roughly when, and emails every subscriber the jobs that match their trade, their counties and their minimum job size.
- Where do Tradewind's leads come from?
- Every Tradewind lead starts as a public building permit filed with a city. Tradewind pulls new permits from the cities' open-data portals each morning, reads the filed scope of work to decide which trades the job calls for, and dates each trade's window from the permit's issue date using construction scheduling norms. Nothing is bought from a list broker and nothing comes from a private source.
- Which cities and counties does Tradewind cover?
- Tradewind covers Tarrant County (Fort Worth and Arlington) today. Counties are added once their permit feed proves it updates daily — Dallas County's open-data permits stopped refreshing in 2024, so it is deliberately not listed rather than shipped as stale jobs.
- Which trades does Tradewind cover?
- Tradewind classifies permits into 17 trades: Sitework & Excavation, Demolition, Concrete, Framing, Roofing, Electrical, Plumbing, HVAC, Drywall, Painting, Flooring, Landscaping, Pressure washing, Fencing, Final clean, Window cleaning, Line striping & pavement markings. One permit is tagged with every trade its scope calls for, so a single job can surface as a lead for several trades in different weeks as the schedule moves through it.
- How early does a Tradewind subscriber see a job?
- Paid subscribers see a permit the morning Tradewind indexes it, usually the day after the city publishes it. Anything older than 48 hours is public on this site for anyone to browse, and free accounts get their leads on a seven-day delay. That gap is the product: a number put on a job before it reaches a bid list is worth more than the same number put on it afterwards.
- What does Tradewind cost?
- Free is $0 — one trade, one county, weekly, delayed 7 days. Pro is $99/mo — one trade, up to three counties, daily. Multi is $199/mo — every trade, every covered county, daily. There is no contract and no seat minimum, and any plan can be cancelled the month the work dries up.
- What is actually in a Tradewind lead?
- A Tradewind lead carries the job address and city, a plain-language description of the work rather than permit shorthand, the valuation declared on the permit and an estimate of what that job's scope is worth to your trade alone, the general contractor or owner named on the filing, and the window — when the work comes up and how long it stays worth chasing.
- Is building permit data public?
- Yes. Building permits are public record, and the DFW cities Tradewind covers republish them through open-data portals. What Tradewind adds is the reading: deciding which trades a filed scope of work calls for, dating each trade's window, estimating what the scope is worth, and sending one subcontractor only the jobs they can bid.
Your next job is already permitted.
Tell us what you bid and where you bid it, and the jobs about to need your trade land in your inbox the next morning — one job pays for the year, and there is no contract to sign.