Market structure analysis · Residential GCs

Most residential work goes to a handful of LLCs. We name them.

Guessing where to compete is expensive. We pull a year of permit data for your city, run AI-augmented analysis on owner concentration, project type, and decision structure — then ship you a PDF that says exactly who to talk to and why.

Instant PDF download7-day refund, no questionsCustom city research available
Every SJ filing, 12 months back·Structured for GCs·Sourced from public records

From every raw permit to one PDF
you can actually use.

What we do for San Jose, we'll do for any Bay Area city you ask about.

STEP 01

We pull every permit.

A year of public planning commission filings for your city — addresses, owners, project types, square footage, dates. Raw data nobody bothers to structure.

STEP 02

AI maps the structure.

Owner concentration, repeat-buyer LLCs, ADU vs. SFR vs. multifamily split, geographic clusters, who actually decides at each tier. The structural picture under the noise.

STEP 03

You get a PDF you can act on.

Named LLCs. Per-tier playbooks. Read it on your phone in 5 minutes. Send your first targeted cold email this afternoon.

$499 for San Jose (instant) · $1,999 for any Bay Area city + 90 days monitoring · 7-day refund

We watch every filing in San Jose.

Below: the four most recent permits, pulled from the city this morning. The report is what 12 months of these filings add up to — concentration, tier breakdown, named LLCs, the playbook for each segment.

3 months agoSAN JOSE
••• 13TH ST

DETACHED ADU — NEW 749 SF, 2 BEDROOM, 2 BATHROOM

Addition
Public record
monitored daily
3 months agoSAN JOSE
•••• OAK KNOLL DR

REBUILD — 2,220 SF MASTER SUITE REMODEL + DETACHED 748 SF ADU (sibling #26-105311)

Addition
Public record
monitored daily
3 months agoSAN JOSE
•••• NEVADA AV

DEMO/REBUILD — DEMOLISH (E) 1,967 SF SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING + ADU (sibling #26-100412)

New Construction
Public record
monitored daily
3 months agoSAN JOSE
••• COLLEEN DR

NEW SFD — BUILD (N) 2 STORY/ 4 BED/ 3.5 BATH/ 4,182 SQ FT HOUSE

New Construction
Public record
monitored daily

8 San Jose filings tracked. The report structures all of them.

A lead list tells you names.
We tell you which names matter.

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Lead aggregators
Doing it yourself
What you get
Structural analysis (PDF)
Raw lead list
Spreadsheet of permits
Time to insight
5 minutes (read the report)
Hours per lead
40+ hours
Tells you who actually decides
Yes — by tier and LLC
No
You have to figure it out
Cost
$499 one-time
$99–$300 / month
"Free" + 40 hours of your time
Refundable
7 days, no questions
Annual contract
N/A

“We stopped chasing. They started calling us.”

I'd been chasing every lead I could find. The report told me most of the SFR work was going to a handful of LLCs I'd never even contacted. Two of them are now repeat clients. I stopped wasting Q1 on the wrong customer segment.

[Customer Name]
Owner · [GC Company] · San Jose, CA

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Repeat clients from one report
6
LLCs newly on the radar
5min
Time to read the report

San Jose today. Any Bay Area city you ask about.

The $499 SJ report ships instantly. For any other Bay Area city, the $1,999 custom research delivers the same analysis in 5–10 days, plus 90 days of weekly permit monitoring on top.

San Jose · ANALYZED
  • San Jose, CA● $499 instant
  • Oakland, CA$1,999 on request
  • San Francisco, CA$1,999 on request
  • Mountain View, CA$1,999 on request
  • Palo Alto, CA$1,999 on request
  • Berkeley, CA$1,999 on request
  • Your city?Email Matthew ↓

Need a city not listed? matthew@updatewave.com. If we have data access for the city, we'll quote you.

Two ways in. Same analysis underneath.

Start with San Jose for $499 (instant). Or commission the same analysis for any Bay Area city, plus 90 days of weekly permit monitoring, for $1,999.

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City market structure report
$499

One PDF that shows you which 6 owners control 75% of San Jose SFR construction.

  • PDF for San Jose 2025 (instant download)
  • A year of permit data, structured by tier
  • 7-day refund, no questions
See the SJ report
Custom city research
$1,999

Pick any Bay Area city. Same report format, plus 90 days of weekly permit monitoring.

  • Same structural analysis as the SJ report, for the city you choose
  • 5-10 day delivery for new cities; instant for SJ
  • 90 days of weekly Matthew-curated permit digests by email
Choose a city

Questions GCs ask before buying the report.

01What does the report actually show me?

A 3-tier structural analysis (ADU, SFR, multifamily). For each tier: total permit count, owner concentration with named LLCs, top zip codes, and the GC playbook for that segment. Designed to read on phone in 5 minutes. See /sample for the table of contents and one redacted page.

02Can't I just pull this data myself from the city?

You can. It'll take 30–40 hours to scrape the raw filings, deduplicate owners, classify project types, and produce something you can act on. Our $499 buys back those hours and the analysis layer on top — owner concentration, tier playbooks, named LLCs.

03How is this different from BuildZoom or Dodge?

They sell post-permit lead lists on a $99–$300/mo subscription. We sell pre-permit structural analysis as a $499 one-time PDF. They tell you what just broke ground; we tell you which 6 owners decide what gets built next year.

04What if my city isn't San Jose?

The $1,999 custom research covers any Bay Area city you ask about. Same report format, plus 90 days of weekly permit monitoring with founder commentary. 5–10 day delivery for new cities; instant for SJ.

05Who actually writes the analysis?

Matthew (founder) reviews every report. AI handles bulk extraction (parsing permit text, normalizing owner names) but the structural insight, naming, and per-tier playbooks are written by hand. Not LLM-summarized.

06How current is the data?

For the SJ historical report: 12 months ending in the most recent complete quarter. For the $1,999 custom research: same historical window plus 90 days of forward-looking weekly digests on new permits as they file.

07What's the refund policy?

7-day no-questions refund on either product. Email matthew@updatewave.com with the receipt number. We'd rather refund than have an unhappy customer.

08Is this legal? Is this public information?

Yes. Every filing comes from public planning commission records — the same records anyone can request from the city. We just structure and analyze them. Architects can request listing removal at any time.

Stop guessing your market. Get the structural analysis.

$499 for San Jose. Instant download. 7-day refund.