Connecticut Contractor License List - Home Improvement & DCP

Connecticut Contractor License List & Lookup: new home improvement and trade licenses (CT DCP)

New Connecticut licenses from the Department of Consumer Protection, every day. Home improvement contractors (HIC), new home builders, electrical, plumbing and HVAC contractors, liquor permits, food and cannabis businesses, each with license type and number, status, issue and expiration dates, address, city and ZIP.

Sample output (real rows, a few of the columns):

businessName	license	licenseSubcategory	status	issueDate
HANDY HOMES HANDYMAN AND REPAIR SERVICES LLC	Home Improvement Contractor		Approved	2026-10-21
FIRM FORTRESS CONSTRUCTION LLC	Home Improvement Contractor		Approved	2026-10-21
BAYHORSE STRUCTURES LLC	Home Improvement Contractor		Approved	2026-10-21

Connecticut contractor leads list, ready as a spreadsheet. Set your filters, press Start, and download the results as Excel or CSV when the run finishes (usually seconds). No coding needed, and you can schedule it daily or weekly.

Free to try: Apify's free plan ($5/month credit, no credit card) covers about 2,500 records a month. After that it's $2 per 1,000 records. See a free sample CSV and the full field list.

Get new Connecticut business licenses every day from the official Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) open data on data.ct.gov. Pull newly registered home improvement contractors (HIC), new home construction contractors, electrical, plumbing, HVAC and sheet-metal contractors, liquor permits for new restaurants and bars, food businesses, cannabis businesses, real estate firms and more. Every result is a business entity, with the license name and number, status, issue and expiration dates, business address, city and ZIP.

No browser, no proxies, no login. The Actor reads the state's open-data API, so a run takes seconds. CT updates the data daily.

What's in the Connecticut contractor leads list?

• Business name and DBA
• License type, subcategory and number
• Status, issue, effective and expiration dates
• City, state, ZIP and business address
• Link to the official verification page

Source: Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection open data (data.ct.gov).
How fresh is it? The Department of Consumer Protection's open dataset is updated daily.

Sample rows (real output, a few columns)

businessName	license	licenseSubcategory	status	issueDate	expirationDate	city	state	zipCode
HANDY HOMES HANDYMAN AND REPAIR SERVICES LLC	Home Improvement Contractor		Approved	2026-10-21	2027-03-31	Hartford	CT	061122180
FIRM FORTRESS CONSTRUCTION LLC	Home Improvement Contractor		Approved	2026-10-21	2027-03-31	Bethel	CT	06801
BAYHORSE STRUCTURES LLC	Home Improvement Contractor		Approved	2026-10-21	2027-03-31	Red Hook	NY	125714511

Download a free sample CSV to see the format in Excel.

Who uses this

• Suppliers, lumber yards, distributors and equipment rental reaching contractors in their first weeks.
• Insurance, bonding, payroll, accounting and software sales to newly licensed businesses.
• Food and beverage distributors and POS vendors finding new restaurants and liquor permit holders.
• Lead-gen agencies and CRMs that need a fresh Connecticut contractor list.
• Compliance teams checking license status in bulk.

Privacy by design

• Individuals, sole proprietors, employee-only and trust records are never returned. Only entity types such as LLC, corporation, partnership and business are kept.
• The registered name must look like a business name (LLC, Inc, or trade words such as Construction or Roofing).

Input

Field	What it does	Default
categories	contractors, home_improvement, new_home_construction, trades, liquor, food, cannabis, real_estate, healthcare_pharmacy, professional_firms, all	contractors
credentialContains	License name contains, e.g. MAJOR CONTRACTOR	none
issuedWithinDays	Issued in the last N days (0 = no limit)	30
issuedFrom / issuedTo	Date window (YYYY-MM-DD)	none
cities, zipCodes	Exact city or ZIP prefix such as 069	none
keywords	Business name or DBA contains	none
activeOnly	Active licenses only	true
maxResults	Cap, newest first	100

Output (example)

{
  "businessName": "FIRM FORTRESS CONSTRUCTION LLC", "entityType": "Limited Liability Company",
  "license": "Home Improvement Contractor", "licenseNumber": "HIC.06xxxxx", "status": "Approved",
  "issueDate": "2026-10-21", "expirationDate": "2027-11-30", "businessAddress": "...", "city": "Bethel", "zipCode": "06801"
}

A RUN_SUMMARY record shows the rows scanned, kept and dropped.

Run it daily

Schedule it with issuedWithinDays: 1 and send each day's new Connecticut licenses to Google Sheets, a CRM, Slack or email with Apify integrations. It also works from AI assistants through the Apify MCP server.

FAQ

Is this legal to use? Yes. The source is Connecticut's official open-data portal. The dataset "State Licenses and Credentials" is published as public domain.

Can I look up one contractor's license? Use keywords with part of the business name and issuedWithinDays: 0.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection.

Input examples

Copy any of these into the JSON input tab, or start from the prefilled defaults (they return results in seconds).

New Connecticut Home Improvement Contractors (HIC)

{"categories": ["home_improvement"], "issuedWithinDays": 30, "maxResults": 1000}

New Connecticut Liquor Permits (Restaurants and Bars)

{"categories": ["liquor"], "issuedWithinDays": 30, "maxResults": 1000}

New Connecticut New Home Construction Contractors

{"categories": ["new_home_construction"], "issuedWithinDays": 90, "maxResults": 1000}

Common questions about the Connecticut contractor leads list

How do I get the Connecticut contractor leads list without coding? Press Try for free, adjust the filters (or keep the defaults), press Start, then open the Storage tab and export the results as Excel, CSV or JSON. A run usually finishes in seconds.

How much does it cost? Free to try: Apify's free plan ($5/month credit, no credit card) covers about 2,500 records a month. After that it is $2.00 per 1,000 results (pay per result), plus a fraction of a cent per run. You only pay for rows you get.

Can I get new records automatically every day or week? Yes. Save your filters as a task and add a Schedule (daily or weekly). Connect Google Sheets, Slack, email, Zapier, Make or n8n under Integrations to receive each new batch.

Can I call it from code or an AI agent? Yes. Use the Apify API or the Python/JavaScript clients with the Actor ID shown above, or connect it to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor through the Apify MCP server.

Does it include personal data? The output is business records (company names, business addresses and, where the source publishes them, business phone numbers) from an official public dataset. Records for individual people are left out where the source allows.

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