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Dibsline Permits

Dibsline Permits reports newly issued building permits from the public records of 10 US cities, collected every day. You ask for them in plain English in your AI assistant, filtered by trade, job value, ZIP code and contractor, and every permit links to the city's own record.

The cities: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Fort Worth, Austin, Miami, San Diego, San Jose, Boston and Minneapolis. Each has its own page with live counts. The other connector is Dibsline Carriers.

How to add it

Add the connector to your AI assistant by its address. Each assistant has its own steps: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, Mistral or any other MCP client.
The first time you use it, your assistant opens Dibsline's sign-in page. Type your email address; Dibsline emails you a 6-digit code; type the code and allow access. No password. One account works for both connectors.
Ask in plain English, for example "Any new pool permits in Austin this week?"

Plans, in one line. Free plan: 10 results a week, no card. Paid plans from $49 USD a month, each with a 14-day free trial. Prices and what each plan gets

Connector address

https://mcp.dibsline.com/permits/mcp

Streamable HTTP. Sign-in by OAuth 2.0 with the emailed code; your assistant registers itself, so there is no client ID to type.

Every tool

Your assistant picks the tool from what you ask. The tools marked "changes something" write to your account; the rest only read.

Find newly issued building permits in a city
Permits in one city by trade, dates, job value, ZIP code and contractor, newest first; or one line per job.
Get one building permit by city and permit number
One permit in full, with its link and its notice.
Count newly issued building permits
Totals by day, city or trade. Counts are free on every plan.
My Dibsline account
Your plan, the results left this week on the Free plan, and your billing link.
Manage Dibsline billing
Your link to Stripe's billing page: change or cancel a plan, add a city, update your card. In ChatGPT, it emails you the link.
Choose Permits Pro cities
Picks the cities on your Permits Pro plan, up to the number paid for.
Changes something
Mark a permit won or lost
Marks a lead won or lost, with a note; marked leads can be left out of lists.
Changes something
Save a search as a daily email alert
On a paid plan, saves a search so Dibsline emails you what is new for it once a day.
Changes something
List saved searches (daily email alerts)
Your saved searches, and when each last emailed you.
Stop a saved search (daily email alert)
Stops the daily email for one saved search.
Changes something

7 worked examples

Each was run on 31 Oct 2026 on real data; "this week" is 25 to 31 Oct 2026. The counts are what came back that day. Permit numbers, addresses, names and contractors are left out here; in Dibsline you get the full record and its link.

You ask
Any new pool permits in Austin this week?
What comes back
59 pool permits issued in Austin from 25 to 31 Oct 2026, newest first, each with its trade tag, permit type, description, job value, ZIP code, contractor and the City's own permit page. The answer also says Austin's permits are nearly all in to 28 Oct, and 29 Oct onwards are still arriving.
You ask
How many roofing permits did Chicago issue in October, by day?
What comes back
160 roof permits from 1 to 31 Oct 2026, with a count for each of the 24 days that had one (6 on 29 Oct, 11 on 27 Oct, 16 on 9 Oct), and the City of Chicago's required disclaimer. Counts are free on every plan.
You ask
Which of your cities issued the most permits this week?
What comes back
8,029 permits from 25 to 31 Oct 2026: New York 1,471, Austin 1,105, Fort Worth 950, Minneapolis 844, Miami 837, Philadelphia 794, San Diego 668, Boston 556, Chicago 466 and San Jose 338, with one line saying which days are still arriving for each source.
You ask
Solar permits in San Diego in the last two weeks
What comes back
210 solar permits from 18 to 31 Oct 2026, each with a ZIP code, and the note that where the address has none the ZIP code is the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Area, which approximates it.
You ask
Remodel jobs in Minneapolis this week, one line per job
What comes back
98 jobs for 25 to 31 Oct 2026, one per address, each with its permit count, total job value, contractors and the permits in it. A city often issues one permit per trade for one job, on different days; a job counts it once.
You ask
Look up the first of those pool permits by its number
What comes back
The permit in full: its issue date, trade tag, description, ZIP code, contractor, the source link, the source's notice and when Dibsline first stored it.
You ask
Boston permits from January 2024
What comes back
0 permits. Dibsline holds Boston's permits issued from 19 Sep 2026, and says so. It does not hold years of history (see what it does not do, below).

The 11 sources, their notices, and how fresh the data is

Every city publishes its own permits. Dibsline collects from each once a day, cleans the values, adds the trade tags and keeps every record with its source link and the time the source published it. Cities publish a permit a day or more after it is issued, and some publish a day's permits over several days, so every answer whose dates reach the newest days says which days are still arriving. The status page shows each source's newest collection and record.

Each source's notice is shown with every result from it, as the source requires. Miami is two sources: the permits the City of Miami issues and those Miami-Dade County issues.

New York

The dataset's own page. Dibsline holds its permits issued from 10 Sep 2026.

Licence: not named by the source; its notice below is required with the data.

Nearly all of a day's permits are in 3 days after it (measured 29 Oct 2026).

Notice, shown with every result: Source: NYC Department of Buildings, "DOB NOW: Build - Approved Permits", NYC Open Data dataset rbx6-tga4, as of the time of the data. Changed by Dibsline: one record per work permit at its first issue (renewals left out), rows for the same work permit merged, values cleaned and trade tags added.

Chicago

The dataset's own page. Dibsline holds its permits issued from 10 Sep 2026.

Licence: not named by the source; its notice below is required with the data.

Nearly all of a day's permits are in 2 days after it (measured 29 Oct 2026).

Notice, shown with every result: This site provides applications using data that has been modified for use from its original source, www.cityofchicago.org, the official website of the City of Chicago. The City of Chicago makes no claims as to the content, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of any of the data provided at this site. The data provided at this site is subject to change at any time. It is understood that the data provided at this site is being used at one's own risk.

Philadelphia

The dataset's own page. Dibsline holds its permits issued from 10 Sep 2026.

Licence: Provided by the City of Philadelphia as is, without warranty of any kind.

Nearly all of a day's permits are in 3 days after it (measured 29 Oct 2026).

Notice, shown with every result: Provided by the City of Philadelphia as is, without warranty of any kind. Source: City of Philadelphia permits data (phl.carto.com, table permits).

Fort Worth

The dataset's own page. Dibsline holds its permits issued from 10 Sep 2026.

Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Nearly all of a day's permits are in 5 days after it (measured 29 Oct 2026).

Notice, shown with every result: Source: City of Fort Worth Development Services Department, Development Permits. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changed by Dibsline: values cleaned and trade tags added.

Austin

The dataset's own page. Dibsline holds its permits issued from 10 Sep 2026.

Licence: not named by the source; its notice below is required with the data.

Nearly all of a day's permits are in 2 days after it (measured 29 Oct 2026).

Notice, shown with every result: Source: City of Austin, "Issued Construction Permits" (data.austintexas.gov dataset 3syk-w9eu).