FlagHound watches every job filed under your license and warns you before a permit expires, a stop-work order lands, or a complaint turns into a violation. Keyed to your license, not the buildings you own.
Built on 10 public NYC and federal data sources: DOB, ECB, OATH, FDNY, 311, Federal Register
Early access: you talk to the founder, not a support queue.
Typical starting ECB civil penalty for a permit or construction violation, before escalation.
Of FY25 ECB penalty dollars referred to collections were default judgments. The contractor never showed up to contest them.
A lapsed permit means new application fees, re-inspection delays, and potentially losing the job to a sub who kept their paperwork current.
1 ECB civil penalties for construction and mechanical violations typically start at this level per offense class and escalate from there. Source: NYC Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings fee schedules.
2 Per the NYC Department of Finance ECB Annual Report (FY25, October 2025), default-judgment penalties accounted for approximately 49% of total FY25 ECB penalty dollars referred to collections. NYC DOF ECB FY25 annual report. Figures presented as context, not as guarantees.
NYC PE license number on the filing matches one you've enrolled.
Legal name or registered DBA matches, case-insensitive and trimmed.
The 7-digit Building ID matches a job you're running, even if the name doesn't.
Close-but-not-exact name matches. We log them, but we never auto-alert.
In Phase 0 internal testing, 39 of 39 sampled matches were correct (zero false positives). We only auto-alert on signals we can stand behind.
We watch 311 and DOB complaints on your jobsites and alert you the day a new one appears. A complaint is a public record you can act on immediately: get your permits in order, confirm the site is clean, and document the work.
ECB, DOB, and FDNY violations matched to your license and job-site BINs, focused on HVAC, plumbing, and mechanical codes. You see the violation before a missed hearing turns a fine into a collection item. NYC agency feeds can lag or omit records.
Expiring, stalled, or missing permits across every job you run. Permit expiration dates are public record in DOB NOW, so you renew before a permit lapses instead of finding out from an inspector.
Penalty exposure estimates on every violation, computed from the violation's own assessed penalty and NYC default-judgment multipliers. Labeled illustrative.
Your upcoming OATH hearing dates, in one place. Missing a hearing converts a contestable violation into a default judgment sent straight to collections. This tracker helps so you don't miss a hearing date.
Free lookup tool. Enter a NYC address and see its violations, permits, complaints, and a FlagHound risk score built from public records. Informational only, not a compliance certification.
1 Per the NYC Department of Finance ECB Annual Report (FY25, October 2025), default-judgment penalties accounted for approximately 49% of total FY25 ECB penalty dollars referred to collections. See the NYC DOF ECB FY25 annual report. Figures are presented as context, not as guarantees.
Mark any expiry alert as in progress and set the date you expect to renew or close it out.
On your committed date, we check records to see if the permit was renewed, closed, or still open.
Each closed permit builds your compliance history, a record you can share with bonding agents and liability brokers.
License numbers, company names, job-site BINs. Takes 10 minutes.
Every 2 to 12 hours depending on the source, most every 2 to 4 hours, across 10 public data sources; the Federal Register is checked daily.
Email or text when a record posts. Typically within a few hours of the complaint being published to the source feed.
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A step-by-step 72-hour response playbook for contractors who just received an ECB summons, DOB Notice to Correct, or Stop Work Order. Decision tree and cost comparison.
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A single 311 call triggers a DOB inspection within 2-10 days. How the complaint pipeline works, inspection priority tiers, and what contractors can do.
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Enroll your license and your first job sites today, free. Pro is $50/month when billing opens, and you can cancel any time.
NYC Open Data (SODA API), DOB NOW, OATH, and the Federal Register. All public-record.
We poll NYC complaint feeds roughly every two hours. Alerts typically reach you within a few hours of a record being published to the source feed, though timing depends on the agency's own publishing cadence and is not a guaranteed SLA.
No. By design, only license number, exact company name, or BIN matches trigger an alert. Fuzzy name matches are logged internally for later review rather than surfaced as alerts.
Free for up to 50 jobsites. Pro is $50/mo and adds unlimited jobsites, real-time SMS, and the office tools. 14-day guarantee. Cancel any time.
Yes. The free plan covers up to 50 jobsites, and the paid plan is unlimited. You can add or remove sites anytime.
No. Alerts arrive by email and SMS, so you don't have to log in every day. The dashboard is there when you want to dig into a specific jobsite.
