How you find contractors,
by the work they’ve actually done near you.

This is the first chapter of The Digital City — a series that explains, in plain terms, how Boostt turns the records a city publishes every day into a real, navigable map of the people who actually work there. No ads, no self-reported listings, no sponsored pins. Just the public record, mapped.

This chapter: every time a contractor does legal construction work in a US city, a permit is filed naming the contractor and the street address of the job. Boostt reads those permits, figures out what kind of work they describe, and attaches each job to the contractor who did it. Over time, every contractor ends up with a map of their real jobs — not their registered office, not a marketing brochure, just the actual addresses where they've actually worked.

So when you search for a plumber near your home, you don't get plumbers whose office happens to be nearby. You get plumbers who have actually repaired sewers on your block, with dates and distances as proof. It's the word-of-mouth question — “who has actually worked around here?” — answered from the public record at city scale.