OpenSoon LA — Los Angeles New Business Lead Generator

OpenSoon LA finds early B2B sales opportunities in the City of Los Angeles from official public records.

Instead of returning a generic business directory or a raw permit dump, it combines City business-start records with commercial building-permit activity, filters obvious residential noise, classifies likely business verticals, ranks opportunities by confidence, and suggests likely vendor needs.

Who this is for

OpenSoon LA is useful for teams that sell to businesses while they are opening, relocating, remodeling, or preparing a new location, including:

• POS and payment providers;
• commercial cleaning companies;
• signage and printing vendors;
• payroll and scheduling providers;
• internet and telecom providers;
• security and access-control vendors;
• local marketing and lead-generation agencies;
• food-service and business suppliers.

It does not promise buyer intent or provide private consumer data. It gives you a timing signal and a ranked list of businesses or commercial projects worth researching first.

Try a ready-made example

Published example tasks let you start with a useful configuration immediately:

• Find new restaurants opening in Los Angeles
• Find new beauty and wellness businesses in Los Angeles
• Find new retail businesses opening in Los Angeles
• Find new medical and dental business leads in Los Angeles
• Find new fitness business leads in Los Angeles
• Find new hospitality business leads in Los Angeles
• Find new professional office leads in Los Angeles
• Find high-confidence new business leads in Los Angeles
• Find commercial permit leads in Los Angeles

What it can surface

• recently active business-registry/location-start records;
• registered business start dates up to a configurable number of days in the future;
• recently submitted building permits;
• recently issued building permits;
• addresses where independent business-registry and permit signals overlap;
• likely commercial verticals such as restaurants, retail, beauty/wellness, fitness, medical/dental, hospitality, and professional offices.

Why the ranking matters

A permit by itself is not the same as a confirmed new business. OpenSoon LA separates independent signal families instead of treating every permit stage as a separate confirmation.

high confidence is reserved for stronger opportunities where both of these independent source families match the same normalized address:

1. City business registry/start-date data;
2. City building-permit data.

A submitted permit and an issued permit are two lifecycle stages of the same permit source family, so they are not counted as two independent confirmations.

Output

Each dataset item can include:

• opportunity score (0–100);
• confidence (low, medium, or high);
• score reasons;
• signal types and independent source families;
• latest signal date;
• business/DBA name when available;
• business vertical;
• address and ZIP;
• industry/NAICS when available;
• permit valuation and evidence;
• likely vendor needs.

Example output

{
  "opportunityScore": 87,
  "confidence": "high",
  "sourceFamilies": ["business_registry", "building_permit"],
  "signalTypes": ["new_business_registration", "building_permit_submitted"],
  "businessName": "Example Business LLC",
  "vertical": "restaurant_food",
  "address": "100 EXAMPLE ST",
  "zipCode": "90012",
  "futureBusinessStart": true,
  "vendorNeeds": ["POS/payments", "online ordering", "payroll", "commercial cleaning", "signage"]
}

The example above is illustrative; it is not a real business record.

Input controls

Useful controls include:

• daysBack — how far back to search;
• daysAhead — future registered business-start horizon, default 90 days;
• verticals — optional business-category filter;
• zipCodes — optional LA ZIP filters;
• keywords — optional text filters;
• minScore — minimum opportunity score from 0–100;
• onlyMultiSignal — require an independent business-registry + permit match;
• maxResults — cap output size;
• includeResidential — include residential permit signals (off by default).

Data sources

OpenSoon LA uses public City of Los Angeles Open Data datasets:

• Active Businesses — dataset 6rrh-rzua;
• Building Permits Issued — dataset pi9x-tg5x;
• Building Permits Submitted — dataset gwh9-jnip.

No private consumer database is used.

Pricing

OpenSoon LA uses Apify Pay Per Event pricing:

• $5.00 per 1,000 ranked results ($0.005 per result);
• platform usage is included rather than charged separately to the user.

The charge event is the built-in apify-default-dataset-item, so one paid event corresponds to one ranked result written to the default dataset.

Reliability

The repository includes automated checks for:

• address normalization;
• commercial vertical classification;
• independent-source confidence logic;
• future business-start handling;
• residential filtering;
• syntax validity;
• Docker image build;
• live connectivity and parsing against the current LA Open Data APIs.

Limitations

Public records can be delayed, incomplete, amended, or inaccurate. A future location start date or building permit is an opportunity signal, not proof that a business will open on a particular date or purchase a service.

OpenSoon LA does not promise buyer intent, contact information, or sales outcomes. Use the ranked records as a research and prioritization layer, then verify a business before outreach.