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Shovels structures US building permit, contractor, property, resident and

For agents: Shovels: US building permit, contractor and property data with a REST API, OpenAPI specs, no-code permit search and Snowflake bulk data feeds.

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Their llms.txt

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# Shovels

> Shovels structures US building permit, contractor, property, resident and
> local government decision data into one queryable dataset. 196M+ permits
> across 2,820+ permitting jurisdictions, covering roughly 85% of the US
> population, linked to 3.89M+ contractors. Available as a REST API, a no-code
> web app, and a warehouse-native data license for Snowflake, BigQuery and
> Databricks. API docs at https://docs.shovels.ai.

Shovels is a permit-and-contractor intelligence platform, not a project-lead or
bid network. The distinguishing property is that permits, contractors,
properties, residents and local government decisions are joined to each other,
so a single query can move between entities: from a permit to the contractor
who pulled it, to that contractor's completion times across every jurisdiction
they work in, to the property and its ownership history.

## Products

- [Shovels API](https://www.shovels.ai/solutions/api): REST API for permits, contractors, properties, residents and decisions. Geographic filters by zip, county, city and radius.
- [Shovels Online](https://www.shovels.ai/solutions/permit-database): No-code web app for searching and exporting permit and contractor data.
- [Shovels Enterprise Data License](https://www.shovels.ai/solutions/data-feed): Bulk delivery native to Snowflake, BigQuery and Databricks, on twice-monthly or custom schedules.
- [Pricing](https://www.shovels.ai/pricing): Free plan with no credit card required. Paid plans and enterprise licensing above that.

## Features

- [Charlie](https://www.shovels.ai/features/charlie): AI agent inside Shovels Online that answers permit and contractor questions in natural language.
- [Shovels GIS](https://www.shovels.ai/features/gis): Permit data as hosted feature layers for Esri ArcGIS and QGIS.
- [Map gallery](https://www.shovels.ai/features/gis/gallery): Worked examples of permit data rendered as maps.
- [Shovels CLI](https://www.shovels.ai/features/cli): Single-binary, JSON-only command line client. Help text written for LLMs. Source at https://github.com/ShovelsAI/shovels-cli, install via https://shovels.ai/install.sh

## API quick reference

Base URL is `https://api.shovels.ai/v2`. Authentication is an `X-API-Key`
header. Most queries start by resolving a place or address to a `geo_id`,
then passing that `geo_id` to a search endpoint.

Permit coverage proves presence, not absence. Responses about a missing permit
carry trust fields that describe the coverage behind the answer rather than
returning an unqualified no.

- [API documentation](https://docs.shovels.ai)
- [Documentation index for agents](https://docs.shovels.ai/llms.txt): Curated link list. Full text at https://docs.shovels.ai/llms-full.txt
- [OpenAPI specification](https://api.shovels.ai/spec/v2/openapi.production.yaml)
- [Knowledge base](https://docs.shovels.ai/docs/knowledge-base)
- [Resolving addresses to geo_id](https://docs.shovels.ai/docs/knowledge-base/api/address-resolution/resolving-ad
…

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