Shovels as Permit Data Infrastructure
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These partnerships turn Shovels from a point solution into data infrastructure. Instead of asking each insurer, proptech vendor, or GIS team to ingest and normalize raw permit feeds on its own, Shovels can show up already connected to the systems those teams use for maps, parcels, addresses, and property records. That lowers integration work, makes permit data usable inside existing workflows, and lets smaller software companies buy coverage they could never build themselves.
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Esri gives Shovels a distribution channel into the standard mapping stack used by utilities, retailers, planners, and site selection teams. Shovels delivers permit records as hosted layers in ArcGIS, so users can analyze permits on a map next to their own territories, competitors, or risk zones instead of exporting CSVs and stitching data manually.
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Regrid solves the parcel join problem. By attaching Regrid IDs to permit records, Shovels lets customers connect a permit to a specific parcel, owner, boundary, and land record. That makes the data much more useful for underwriting, site selection, homeowner marketing, and any workflow where the real question is which exact property is changing.
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Precisely expands Shovels into enterprise data enrichment. Precisely positions Data Link as a pre linked data ecosystem, and names Shovels as a partner contributing more than 150 million permits. That means customers can buy permit intelligence as one more connected dataset, rather than funding their own long tail collection and entity resolution effort across thousands of municipalities.
The next step is for permit data to become a standard layer inside property and spatial software, not a specialty feed bought only by data heavy teams. If Shovels keeps expanding coverage and deepening these integrations, it can become the default permits backbone for insurers, utilities, proptechs, and enterprise data platforms that need national built environment signals.