— Newly licensed · updated quarterly · 16 states —
70,000+ contractors got licensed in the last 12 months. Reach them first.
A recent issue date can help focus prospect research, but does not establish a new business or a need for a first policy, supply account or loan. This file includes records with recent issue dates across our 16 covered states. Drawn from covered records and enriched, where available, with phone, email, and website. Built for lenders, insurers, and suppliers who want the first call, not the fiftieth.
Those first accounts get decided in the first weeks. And they tend to stick for years. By the time a new contractor shows up in a lead database, they already picked an insurer, opened a supply account, and heard from every vendor working the same stale list. The lists sold as “fresh leads” can't tell you who's actually new, because a directory scrape has no memory: a 15-year-old company that changed its status looks identical to a business licensed last month. Provable newness requires watching the license boards over time. That's what we do.
- Records with issue dates within the last 12 months, from covered official sources. Not scraped directories. The window rolls forward with every refresh.
- Phone, email, and website enriched from public sources at delivery, where available. Brand-new businesses can be sparse online in their first weeks; the license record itself (name, address, license number, issue date) is always complete.
- License number, trade, city, state, ZIP, and issue date on every row. Sliceable by state or trade in any spreadsheet.
- Optional updates: add the quarterly continuation ($490/quarter) after purchase. Each new quarter's licenses, deduped against everything you already have, delivered while they're still new. Next update ships with our September refresh, then quarterly.
Want to see the format first? Download a 15-row sample — real records in the exact delivery schema, contact fields redacted. The license numbers are real: pick any row and check it against the state board's own lookup.
Compare it to what you're buying now
- Fresh-lead vendors run $0.10–$0.30 per record at published rates — $7,000 to $21,000 for this volume. And can't tell you who's actually newly licensed, because a directory scrape has no memory. This file is about 2 cents a record with the proof built in.
- Sales-intelligence platforms are built from LinkedIn and web crawls, which structurally under-cover small local trades businesses. A brand-new contractor with no web presence yet is exactly the record they miss.
- Aged industry leads sell for $0.05–$0.50 per record precisely because everyone else already called them. The value you're paying for here is the opposite: recently issued credential records, without any promise of exclusivity or purchase intent.
Vendor figures are published/reported 2026 pricing; negotiated deals vary.
How we know they're actually new
Every record's issue date comes from the state board itself. A contractor is in this file only when the board's own records show the license was issued within the last 12 months. We re-pull every board on a schedule, so the window rolls forward with each refresh and you're not paying for a 15-year-old company that changed status.
Who buys this
- Lenders — new licensees season into working-capital prospects within their first year. This file is the top of that funnel.
- Insurance agencies — every new license needs general liability and often a bond, immediately.
- Suppliers & distributors — the first supply-house account a new contractor opens tends to stick.
Common questions
Which states are included?
The 16 states whose license boards publish issue dates: AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, IL, LA, MA, MN, NY, OH, OR, PA, VA, WA. States whose boards don't publish an issue date can't prove a license is new, so they're excluded by design rather than padded in.
What's in the file?
Business name, license number, trade, city, state, ZIP, and issue date where provided by the covered source. Phone, email, and website are enriched from public sources at delivery. An issue date does not necessarily mark the start of a new business; missing fields remain unavailable.
How do the quarterly updates work?
Optional, added after purchase for $490/quarter: each new quarter's licenses, deduped against everything you've already received, delivered while the contractors are still new. The next update ships with our September refresh, then quarterly.
How is it delivered?
As a CSV to your email after checkout. Sliceable by state or trade in any spreadsheet, loadable into any CRM or dialer. No account and no platform to log into; the file is yours.
70,000+ contractors starting their first year in business. Your call sheet for $1,490, once.
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