Who it's for
Built for 4 teams who can't afford to be surprised by a rezoning.
A land acquisition manager, a pre-construction BD lead, a building product spec rep, and a real estate developer all wake up asking the same question: 'What was filed last week that I don't know about yet?' cityminutes is the pre-permit data layer that answers it — across 3,142 US counties, refreshed weekly, structured down to conditions of approval and community objections.
- US counties
- 3,142
- States
- 50
- Refresh cadence
- Weekly
- Workflows
- 4
Pick your seat
Four teams. One pre-permit feed.
Click through to the page that speaks your language. Every persona shares the same core engine — only the saved views and integrations change.
- P1
Land Acquisition
Land directors, VPs of Land, entitlements managers at public homebuilders, BTR/SFR operators, PE land funds.
A 300-lot rezoning hits a county you're not actively farming and you learn about it from a broker package three months later.
A 24-hour alert on every rezoning, subdivision, PUD, and variance — with conditions, staff rec, and hearing outcome — so you option the land before it hits Loopnet.
Learn more - P1B
Pre-Construction BD
VPs of Pre-Construction, Chief Estimators, BD Managers at commercial GCs ($100M–$2B), specialty trades, and design-build firms.
ConstructConnect's 'planning stage' is permit-stage and 60–180 days late. By the time you see a $50M project, it's been soft-awarded.
A daily pre-permit feed scored by project value and trade fit — 30–120 days before ConstructConnect, with architect-of-record pre-tagged.
Learn more - P3
Building Products
Architectural sales reps, Spec Managers, RSMs at roofing, glazing, HVAC, concrete, and finishes manufacturers.
By the time a project shows up in Dodge, the spec is frozen, and 20–30% of your time goes to defending specs through value engineering.
Every site plan, PUD, and design-review submittal in your territory — with the architect-of-record extracted — six to twelve months before Dodge.
Learn more - P4
Developers & Investors
VPs of Development, VPs of Acquisitions, Asset Managers at CRE developers, multifamily / BTR, industrial, data center, REITs, and real estate PE.
CoStar's pipeline is Dodge plus press releases — 10 weeks late. A new 400-unit Class-A appears 0.6 miles from your asset and you're pricing NOI wrong.
Every rezoning, comp-plan amendment, and site plan in your submarkets flagged 6–24 months before it hits CoStar, LoopNet, or Crexi.
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One product, four workflows
cityminutes isn't four products stitched together.
It's a single pre-permit data layer — planning commission minutes, city council agendas, subdivision filings, variance requests, staff reports, hearing packets, and public comment logs scraped weekly from 3,142 US counties — and four workflows on top of it. Every persona gets the same core engine: early-stage rezoning alerts, conditions of approval extraction, community objection monitoring, hearing outcome tracking, staff recommendation parsing.
One database. Four saved views. No persona is a bolt-on.
How the four workflows compare
| P1 Land Acq | P1B Pre-Con BD | P3 Building Products | P4 Developers & Investors | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earliest signal | Rezoning filing | Site plan / DRB | Schematic / DRB | Comp-plan amendment |
| Lead time vs incumbent | 6–18 mo vs CoStar | 30–120 d vs ConstructConnect | 6–12 mo vs Dodge | 10+ wk vs CoStar pipeline |
| Wedge field that matters most | Conditions of approval | Staff recommendation | Architect-of-record | Community objections |
| Where it lands | Salesforce / Smartsheet | Unanet / Vantagepoint | CRM + CEU calendar | BI / asset-mgmt dashboard |
Frequently asked questions
How is cityminutes different for each persona?
It's one database with four saved views. Land Acq sees rezoning + subdivision pipeline filtered by acreage and applicant. Pre-Con BD sees pre-permit projects scored by trade fit and staff recommendation. Spec Reps see design-stage projects with architect-of-record. Developers & Investors see comp-plan amendments and 3-mile competitor rings around their assets. Same scrape, same wedge fields, four workflows.Can my team share an account across multiple personas?
Yes. A national homebuilder with both a Land Acq team and a commercial GC arm can sit on a single MSA with seats split across the two workflows. The pricing pages explain seat-tier packaging by persona; multi-persona deals get an enterprise quote.What if I'm in site selection (Target, Walmart, Starbucks)?
Site selection is a Fortune-500 occupier workflow we've parked. Demographics, traffic counts, demand modeling, and co-tenancy sit outside our core dataset and we'd rather partner with the established players than ship a half-baked version. Email hello@cityminutes.ai if you want to explore a pilot.Do you cover my market?
Yes. cityminutes commits to all 3,142 US counties on a weekly refresh cadence, including the ~19,500 incorporated places within them. If a county or city publishes its planning agendas online, we ingest it.
Pre-permit data layer
Pick your role. Read the page that speaks your language.
Or skip the persona pages and look at a live feed in your home market.