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Know which businesses are opening, what they have filed, and how to reach them.
Cities publish every licence and permit they issue. CityRadar reads Calgary's records each morning, flags the ones that are genuinely new rather than relicensed, and finds contact details where they're public — so you can reach them with the record in hand.
Free, no account. Every business, every record, every contact detail.
Rockwell Home
Retail · Haysboro · #200 9737 Macleod Tr SW
(825) 305-1850 · rockwellhome.ca
Italian Centre Shop
Retail · Brentwood · #2150 5111 Northland Dr NW
businesses / 30 days
or a website
Three businesses we just looked up.
Newly licensed in Calgary, and freshly checked for a phone number and a website. 177 independent businesses were licensed in the last 30 days; 554 in the last 90.
Glow & Restore Wellness
Health & Wellness · Parkhill · 100 MISSION RD SW
Checked Oct 31, 2026
Train 2 Gain
Education & Training · Temple · #217 5401 TEMPLE DR NE
Checked Oct 31, 2026
Meeples Revolution
Retail · Inglewood · 1221B 9 AV SE
Checked Oct 31, 2026
Each card links to the business, its licence record and the date we last checked for contact details.
WHO IT'S FOR
Built for anyone who sells to new local businesses.
Every business comes with the licence the City issued, any permits filed at its address, and contact details where they are public, so you can see what a business has on record before you reach out.
Commercial insurance brokers
Most commercial businesses need liability cover. Filter newly licensed businesses by category and neighbourhood, with the licence record and contact details beside each.
POS & payment providers
Retail and food businesses all need a way to take payment. See which ones were newly licensed, in which category, with a phone number or website where one is public.
Signage, trades & contractors
Permit records list commercial build-outs, renovations and sign work by address, with the permit type and the date the City recorded.
Bookkeeping, payroll, IT & marketing
A new business has to pick bookkeepers, payroll, IT and marketing help sooner or later. Newly licensed businesses are listed with the City's licence record.
Also used by entrepreneurs sizing up a neighbourhood before signing a lease, and commercial real-estate people tracking which units turn over.
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
Every lead comes with the City record behind it.
A directory tells you a business exists. Raw city data tells you a permit was filed, in codes. CityRadar tells you what each record is, the address it was filed at and the date it was applied for.
Permits are published by the City with a delay, so each record carries its own date and we do not infer a timeline from it.
Contact details with the receipts
Phones, emails and websites found in public sources. 177 independent businesses were licensed in the last 30 days, and 60% of them have a phone number or a website. We record where each came from and when we found it — both travel with your spreadsheet export.
We cross-check every contact against several public sources and record where each one came from. When the match isn't clear, we hold it back.
We don't charge for the data
Free users see everything: every business, every record, every contact detail. Nothing useful is behind the paywall. You pay when you want the data to move on its own — into a spreadsheet, your AI assistant, or your own systems.
See what each tier buys →Permits, licences and contacts
Ask your assistant, not another dashboard.
Connect CityRadar to Claude and ask about new and changing businesses — what permits and licences they have filed, and how to reach them. Your assistant then does the rest with the tools it already has — your CRM, your email, your documents.
Other products are closed boxes: they export your leads into their interface and their email tool. CityRadar hands you the intelligence and gets out of the way.
“What new restaurants opened in Beltline this month, and which have phone numbers?”
“Show me businesses with a recent fit-out permit in the northeast — I sell commercial insurance.”
“Draft an intro for each new food business licensed this week and put them in a spreadsheet.”
I sell commercial insurance in Calgary. Which businesses have a permit on file for their space?
Here are four Calgary businesses with a licence and a permit filed at the same address, with the City's record for each and the contact details we have.
Change-of-use permits
Forest House Books — #132 8400 Blackfoot Tr SE
Change-of-use permit, applied Sep 25.
(825) 540-0308
Italian Centre Shop — Brentwood, Northland Village, #2150 5111 Northland Dr NW
Change-of-use permit, applied Jul 30.
(403) 300-4869 · italiancentre.ca
Sign permits
Rockwell Home — Haysboro, #200 9737 Macleod Tr SW
Sign permit, applied Jul 29.
(825) 305-1850 · rockwellhome.ca
Roj Shawarma — Shawnessy, #12 277 Shawville Bv SE
Sign permit, applied Jul 24. No public listing yet.
An example answer. The businesses and permit dates are real Calgary records, checked 30 Oct 2026.
THE NOISE WE STRIP OUT
The data is free. Knowing which 177 of 24,525 records matter is not.
We join the city's licence and permit records, untangle renewals from genuinely new businesses, strip out franchise branches, and match each permit to the right unit. Every item on the right is a real mess in the source that CityRadar cleans up — and we link to every source record so you can check us.
Renewals aren't new businesses
The raw feed makes a renewal look identical to a brand-new licence. We check every licence against earlier records and only call it new when there is no prior record.
Franchise branches are removed by default
A national chain opening its fortieth store isn't a lead. Switch them back on with a filter if you want them.
Numbered holding companies are filtered out
A licence issued to a number with no trading name tells you nothing you can act on.
Cancelled and dead permits are hidden
A permit that isn't going ahead isn't activity. Refused and on-hold permits are hidden too.
Home and residential permits stay out
Residential permits are excluded from the commercial list.
FOUR WAYS TO GET THE DATA
It's a platform, not a website.
The website
Free, no account. Search and filter every business, browse by category or neighbourhood, and open a full profile with the city records behind it.
A weekly email
Every Monday: new businesses in the categories you pick, with contact details where we have them.
Spreadsheet export
Any filtered list as a CSV — contact details and the source and date behind each one included.
AI assistant connection
Live, conversational access to the same data from Claude. About two minutes to set up.
There's also a public JSON API for developers.
CITIES
Calgary today. More of Canada next.
Alberta, Canada
Edmonton
Alberta, Canada
Coming soonToronto
Ontario, Canada
Coming soonVancouver
British Columbia, Canada
Coming soonTell us which city you need and it moves up the list.
PRICING
We don't charge for the data. We charge for how it reaches you.
A free user sees everything — every business, every record, every contact detail. They just do the work by hand, in a browser. You pay when you want the data to move on its own.
- Search and filter every business
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- See every permit and licence behind a business
- ✓
- All contact details
- ✓ leave an email
- Weekly email digest
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- Spreadsheet export (CSV)
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- Daily alertsComing soon
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- AI assistant connection (Claude)
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- Public JSON API access
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- WebhooksComing soon
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- Team seatsComing soon
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- Help integrating it into your tools
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- Priority on new cities
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Pro
Free in beta
then $79/month
Get it out in bulk — spreadsheet exports.
- Search and filter every business
- ✓
- See every permit and licence behind a business
- ✓
- All contact details
- ✓
- Weekly email digest
- ✓
- Spreadsheet export (CSV)
- ✓
- Daily alertsComing soon
- ✓
- AI assistant connection (Claude)
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- Public JSON API access
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- WebhooksComing soon
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- Team seatsComing soon
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- Help integrating it into your tools
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- Priority on new cities
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- Search and filter every business
- ✓
- See every permit and licence behind a business
- ✓
- All contact details
- ✓
- Weekly email digest
- ✓
- Spreadsheet export (CSV)
- ✓
- Daily alertsComing soon
- ✓
- AI assistant connection (Claude)
- ✓
- Public JSON API access
- ✓
- WebhooksComing soon
- ✓
- Team seatsComing soon
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- Help integrating it into your tools
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- Priority on new cities
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Enterprise
Talk to us
Automation plus our time
The same, plus our help wiring it into how you already work.
Book a call- Search and filter every business
- ✓
- See every permit and licence behind a business
- ✓
- All contact details
- ✓
- Weekly email digest
- ✓
- Spreadsheet export (CSV)
- ✓
- Daily alertsComing soon
- ✓
- AI assistant connection (Claude)
- ✓
- Public JSON API access
- ✓
- WebhooksComing soon
- ✓
- Team seatsComing soon
- ✓
- Help integrating it into your tools
- ✓
- Priority on new cities
- ✓
Pro is free during the beta. The price is real and it's coming — anyone signing up now should know what it becomes.
Enterprise is service, not software. Automation plus our time helping you wire it into whatever you already run.
FAQ
Questions people actually ask.
Where the product doesn’t know something, we say so. That’s why the rest is believable.
What is CityRadar?
CityRadar reads a city's official business licence and building permit records every morning and turns them into a usable list of businesses that are opening or newly licensed — with contact details where they're public. It tells you not just that a business appeared in the records, but whether it is genuinely new rather than an existing one relicensing or relocating.
Isn't this data free from the city?
Yes, and we link to every source record so you can check us. What you're paying for is the work in between: several files joined together, licence records untangled, renewals and franchise branches filtered out, permits matched to the right business at the right unit, and contact details found and labelled. The data is free. Knowing which 177 of 24,525 records matter this month is not.
How is this different from a lead list or a directory?
Directories tell you a business exists, usually months late. CityRadar reads the licence and permit records as they are published, and says which businesses are genuinely new and what they have filed.
How fresh is it?
We read each city's open data every morning, so anything a city publishes appears the same day. Every page shows when it was last updated.
How do you tell a new business from a renewal?
The raw feed makes them look identical. We check every licence against earlier records and only call it new when there's no prior record of it. Renewals are left out by default.
Where do the contact details come from?
Public sources: the business's own listing, its own website, and web search. We record which source each one came from and the date, and both are included in your spreadsheet export. 177 independent businesses were licensed in the last 30 days, and 60% of them have a phone number or a website. They're sourced and dated, not verified — and if a contact doesn't clearly match the business, we hold it back rather than show you a wrong number.
Do I need an account?
No. The whole website is free and public. You only need an email address for the weekly digest and the spreadsheet export.
Can I connect it to Claude or ChatGPT?
Claude, today. Connect CityRadar and ask things like “what new restaurants opened this week, and which have phone numbers?” — answered from live data, in conversation. Setup takes about two minutes. ChatGPT support needs a sign-in flow we haven't built yet.
So what am I actually paying for?
Automation. On the free plan you do the work by hand in your browser. Pro gets the list out in bulk as a spreadsheet. Automation pipes it straight into your AI assistant or your own systems. Enterprise is that, plus our time helping you wire it up.
Does CityRadar send emails or manage my pipeline?
No, on purpose. It's a data source, not a CRM or an email tool. That's why it connects to what you already use instead of replacing it.
Which cities do you cover?
Calgary today — all 274 neighbourhoods and all 24,525 businesses in the city's records. Edmonton, Toronto and Vancouver are next. Tell us which city you need and it moves up the list.
How do I reach you with a question?
Email support@cityradar.io — it reaches a person, not a queue. Ask about a city you need, a record that looks wrong, or how to connect it to your own tools. Every business page also has a “report incorrect info” link, and corrections are made by hand.
Is using this data legal?
Yes. Business licence and permit records are public commercial records published by the city — not personal information. Contact details come from public listings and businesses' own websites, and each carries a record of where and when we found it, which is the documentation Canadian anti-spam law expects a sender to keep. Residential permits are excluded from the commercial list.
Get Monday's list.
New businesses in the categories you choose, with contact details where we have them, plus permit activity at a glance. One short email on Monday, one-click unsubscribe.