Every day, Scouten reads the public property, permit, and code-enforcement record across South Florida and flags the specific addresses that are about to need work — while your competitors are still waiting for the phone to ring.
It fails on a schedule anyone can see, if they're reading the right records. Scouten reads them — every parcel, every permit, every open case — and tells us which addresses are on the clock.
The last reroof permit pulled on a property — or the absence of one since it was built. A roof past its service life with no permit behind it is the clearest predictor in the whole dataset. Insurance carriers sell a paid version of this exact score.
A county citation with an unmet deadline attached. It comes with the owner's name, the specific violation, and a real financial consequence for ignoring it — which makes it the one signal where a first contact is genuinely welcome instead of intrusive.
Upkeep and minimum-housing citations — the county's own record that a building is deteriorating faster than its owner is fixing it. Labeled for what it is, not dressed up as something it isn't.
Year built, assessed value, beds, baths, homestead status. On their own these are context, not signals — Scouten uses them to qualify and size a job, never as a standalone reason to reach out.
Florida permits go inactive after roughly 180 days without progress. An expired permit is a job someone started, paid for, and never finished — sitting there waiting for a contractor to close it out.
Work that has no permit category code of its own and is invisible to anyone filtering by category — but is written in plain language in the county's own permit description field.
Coverage is strongest in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach today and is expanding county by county. Ask us exactly what's live in your market — we'll tell you straight, including where it isn't yet.
Scouten doesn't hand you a list. A signal is only worth something if someone acts on it the same week it appears.
It matches the signal to the parcel, the parcel to the owner, and the owner to a reachable contact — then scores it against what your company actually wants to work on.
Written to that specific situation, not blasted. A homeowner with a county deadline gets a different message than one with a 22-year-old roof, because they're not in the same position.
Follow-up runs until they reply or tell us to stop. What lands on your calendar is a conversation, not a lead you now have to chase.
Everyone in this category claims total coverage. Here's where ours actually ends — and why we'd rather you hear it from us.
If the public record doesn't say it, Scouten doesn't claim it. We tested "older home means water damage" against the actuarial data and it turned out to run backwards, so we threw it out rather than sell it to you.
Some counties publish permit status and violations openly. Some publish almost nothing. Where the record is thin, Scouten is thin, and we'll tell you that before you sign rather than after.
Signals find the job. The referral half finds the people who send you five more — the adjusters, realtors, property managers and GCs already routing work in your market. Most jobs still arrive that way.
We'll pull the live signal count for your county and trade, show you the referral sources already active around you, and tell you honestly whether there's enough there to be worth your time. Three minutes, no pitch.