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For facade restoration contractors in New York City

594 NYC facade repairs are due. None has a repair permit on file yet.

SWARMP and UNSAFE reports without visible repair work in public DOB data, re-checked weekly. Each case names the inspection firm that writes the scope.

DOB data as of Oct 19, 2026 · no fee per case, no commission

19 sidewalk sheds on open cases reach the LL48 penalty start (second permit renewal) in the next 90 days.5 reported facades got a repair filing or permit in the week to Oct 19 and now count as work under way.Any firm in New York City can subscribe, including the ones you bid against.

446 daysmedian from report to repair filing in cycle 9, for the 52% that got one

30/30random cases hand-checked: no repair filed

~65new SWARMP/UNSAFE reports a month (12-month average). Re-checked weekly

Source: DOB NOW facade filings, permits and job filings (NYC Open Data) · How we counted →

What you get

Find the case, ask the right firm, work it as a team

By the time a job is on Dodge or BuildingConnected, the bidder list is set. These cases are earlier: the report is filed, the scope is not.

  1. 1

    Find

    Every open case with shed age, LL48 penalty risk and job size, filtered to your boroughs or a radius around your office.

  2. 2

    Ask

    The first contact is the inspection firm of record, usually the engineer who writes the repair scope and invites bidders.

  3. 3

    Track

    Status, notes and follow-ups for up to 10 team members, plus a weekly e-mail with new cases.

Product tour preview: the open-case list of the app Watch the tour1:14 · captions on · demo data
Pricing

Priced below one change order

From $590 a year outside Manhattan, $990 for all of NYC. Flat, no fee per case, no commission. A typical facade repair filing declares $120,000.

Checked, not promised: 30 of 30 cases drawn at random from the delivered list had no repair work on file (hand check, Oct 21, 2026); every run is logged in the track record.

Founding price

$990 a year for all of NYC, kept at every renewal

Founding price for the first 10 firms, until Mar 31, 2027

Annual plan · reminder 30 days before renewal · switch off any time, effective at term end.

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Christoph Ploner
Who is behind it

I’m Christoph (Chris) Ploner, near Vienna, Austria. A facade report with no repair filed is a job waiting for a bidder, but spotting one means checking about ten DOB datasets every week. I do that, remove every case where work has started, and publish how the list performed.

One-person data service · company-level data only · no commissions, no referrals.

Five open cases in your borough, free

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