Pre-permit project intelligence for Canadian builders

Know what your next pursuit is, before there is an RFP.

Datum reads Canadian council and committee records and turns approvals into a ranked feed of projects that are real, public and years from a permit. It is built for the firms whose work is won at the owner's table, not at the bid table.

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One project, and the proof

150 SHERWAY DR, Toronto, ON M9C

City of Toronto

The proposed hospital building is 9-storeys in height (46m), in which the ninth floor is limited to an approximately 335m2 area to be used for an indoor amenity area connecting to an...

In the public record: 2021-09-16
Permit: 22 219275 BLD
Permit issued: 2023-10-24
Between the two: 768 days

This record comes from the city's structured development-application data, so the proof is the application itself rather than a quoted line of minutes. Look it up at the city, and look the permit up in the city's own permit data.

See the city's application record

From a council agenda to a ranked lead.

Collect

Municipal agendas, minutes, and video from eSCRIBE, Granicus, CivicWeb, and open-data feeds, on a schedule.

Transcribe

Speech to text and document AI turn meeting video and staff-report PDFs into clean, readable text.

Extract

Structured project records against a fixed schema, each field carrying an evidence-based confidence score.

Resolve and join

Dedupe and link records over time into an entity-resolved project graph, then confirm which approvals became permits.

Deliver

A ranked dashboard and a synchronized map, updated every day, with the meeting evidence behind every record.

Built for the firms who win work before the drawings exist.

If your work is negotiated at the owner's table rather than won on a bid list, the council decision is where your pursuit starts. That is the moment Datum reads.

/Start a pursuit while the project is still a council decision
/Reach the owner and the design team before an RFP exists
/Fill next year's preconstruction pipeline, not this month's bid list
/See every approval in your regions the morning after the meeting
/Check any project against the public record before you commit a person to it

Plans that scale with your coverage.

Team	$499 / mo CAD, or $4,990 / yr	Every region we cover, updated daily: the ranked project feed, search, the map, and the meeting evidence behind each record. Request access
API / Enterprise	Contact us	Programmatic access and custom scope, arranged directly for data teams and platforms. Request access
Data feed	Contact us	A licensed feed of the resolved construction lifecycle, for building-product manufacturers, lenders, and insurers. Request access

Prices in CAD. Annual billing saves about two months. Datum is invite only while we work with a small founding group, so plans are arranged with a person rather than bought at a checkout. The data feed is a custom licensed feed, priced per contract. Datum has hand-verified 36 cases where a signal it caught early went on to become a real permit, at a median of about 18 months.

Where Datum reads today.

Datum launches on the two largest English-Canada markets and is already collecting well beyond them, adding municipalities every week as new meeting platforms are onboarded.

LAUNCH: BC Lower Mainland / Ontario Golden Horseshoe (GTA)
ALSO LIVE: Greater Victoria / Calgary / Ottawa / Southwestern, Central, and Northern Ontario / New Brunswick / Newfoundland
61 municipalities and growing.

Straight answers.

Where does the data come from?

All of it is public: council, planning, and committee meetings, development-application portals, and building-permit open data. Every record links back to its source meeting so you can audit any figure.

How early is the signal?

Datum sees a project at the council decision, the earliest public signal. Approvals we have tracked all the way to an issued permit reached it in a median of about 18 months, and the long tail runs past three years, so you get the lead while it is still a decision, not a construction site. That median is a midpoint across 36 hand-verified conversions and not a promise about any one project: by definition half of them took longer, and any single record, including the one shown at the top of this page, is one observation rather than the average.

How do you keep it accurate?

Confidence is computed from evidence, not a model's self-rating. Low-confidence records pass through human review before they reach you, and every field is source-linked. The project count on this page is the customer-visible feed, so it is smaller than the number of records we hold: anything still in review or held back by our own gates is not counted until you can see it.