New Contractor License Leads: CA, FL & TX Official Registries

Get the contractors who were licensed this week, before your competitors even know they exist. This actor scans the official state license registries (California CSLB, Florida DBPR, Texas TDLR) and returns newly issued contractor licenses as normalized, ready-to-call leads: business name, owner, phone, address, classification and issue date, in one cross-state schema.

Built for insurance agents and bonding agencies, building-material and tool suppliers, software and service vendors selling to trades, and lead-gen teams who know that a brand-new licensee needs insurance, bonds, accounts and suppliers right now. Retail lead brokers charge $20 and more per shared contractor lead; here you pull them straight from the source registries for cents.

Why this actor

• The freshness IS the product: everyone can look up a license; this delivers the new ones. Set a date window (licenses issued in the last 7 or 30 days) or schedule it in delta mode and receive only licensees that appeared since your last run.
• Official sources only: CSLB master file, DBPR licensee extracts and the TDLR registry on the Texas Open Data Portal, all published by the states themselves and refreshed daily. No scraping walls, no stale resold lists.
• One schema across states: license number, business name, owner, phone, address, city, ZIP, county, classifications, issue date, expiration and status, identical columns whether the lead is from CA, FL or TX.
• Classification filter that speaks contractor: "C-10", "CGC" or "Electrical Contractor" all work, so an insurance program targeting roofers only pays for roofers.
• Built for schedules: delta mode remembers what it already reported, prunes itself, and never bills the Texas baseline run (the first Texas delta run records the registry and returns nothing, honestly).
• Direct to your stack: dataset, API, or pipe it into your CRM enrichment flow like any Apify dataset.

Use cases

• Insurance and bonding: every new CSLB or DBPR licensee needs general liability and often a bond within days of issuance. Be the first call.
• Building material and tool suppliers: open trade accounts with new contractors in your territory.
• SaaS for trades: new electrical contractors in Texas are prospects for estimating, invoicing and dispatch software.
• Lead resellers: normalized, deduplicated, source-attributed records at registry cost.
• AI agents: plug it into Claude, Cursor or any MCP client and ask, "which roofing contractors got licensed in Florida this month?"

Input

{
    "states": ["CA", "FL"],
    "licenseClassifications": ["Roofing"],
    "issuedWithinDays": 30,
    "maxItems": 100
}

For scheduled monitoring, switch to delta mode (required for Texas, which publishes no issue dates):

{
    "states": ["CA", "FL", "TX"],
    "deltaMode": true,
    "maxItems": 500
}

Output

{
    "state": "CA",
    "licenseNumber": "1157281",
    "businessName": "PROFESSIONAL ROOFING",
    "ownerName": null,
    "phone": "(805) 944-6604",
    "address": "123 MAIN ST",
    "city": "LANCASTER",
    "zip": "93534",
    "county": "Los Angeles",
    "classifications": ["C39"],
    "licenseType": "Sole Owner",
    "issueDate": "2026-06-26",
    "expirationDate": "2028-06-30",
    "status": "Active",
    "source": "CA Contractors State License Board (CSLB)",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.cslb.ca.gov/onlineservices/checklicenseII/licensedetail.aspx?LicNum=1157281"
}

Pricing

You pay per lead actually delivered, plus a small run start fee. That is the whole price: compute, downloads and proxies are included, so a run's cost is predictable before you start it. A quiet scheduled run that finds nothing new costs one cent; 100 fresh licensees cost a few dollars, against $20+ each from retail lead brokers.

FAQ

Where exactly does the data come from? The CSLB public data portal master file (California), the DBPR licensee file extracts for the construction and electrical boards (Florida), and the TDLR "All Licenses" dataset on data.texas.gov (Texas). All three are official, public and updated daily by the agencies.

Why does Texas behave differently? TDLR does not publish license issue dates. So instead of a date window, Texas works in delta mode: the first run records the current registry as a baseline (free), and every following run reports licenses that newly appeared. CA and FL carry real issue dates and work both ways.

Do Florida leads include phone numbers? No, the DBPR bulk extracts do not publish phone numbers; FL rows carry name and address. CA and TX rows include phone where the registry publishes one.

Which Florida licenses are covered? The construction board (general, building, residential, roofing, plumbing, HVAC, pool, specialty and more) and the electrical contractors board. Course providers and financial-officer records are filtered out; only actual contractor licenses become leads.

Is this personal data? The records are business license registrations published by the states for public verification. You are responsible for using them in line with the laws that apply to your outreach (TCPA for calls and texts in the US, CAN-SPAM for email).