Commercial electrical business development

Commercial electrical leads from public records, before the bid list.

The commercial jobs are public. We just get you there first. Every commercial build, renovation, and property change leaves a paper trail in public records. Electrician Scout watches those filings across your service area and puts the ones with real electrical scope on your desk, before they reach a bid list everyone else is already chasing.

Non-exclusive, flat pricing. No lead auctions, no territory to buy. Month to month, cancel anytime.

Your opportunity feedExample

Open electrical violation, commercial building

NewExample
Cook County, IL · violation · Jun 26, 2026
2 signals corroborate
Open electrical violation: city-ordered repair

The city cited this building for a hazardous electrical condition (exposed wiring and an overloaded panel), and the violation is still open. That is a legally-compelled repair on a clock, not a maybe. The citation names the remedy, and an overloaded service usually points to a panel or service upgrade, not a patch.

Who to callhow we rate these
Owner: Milwaukee Ave Property Group · (773) 555-0126 · office@milwaukeeavegroup.example.com verified

Office building, just changed hands

Example
Cook County, IL · property sale · Jun 20, 2026
3 signals corroborate
Electrical capex: Electrical service upgrade
Signals buildingChanged hands this quarter, and the new-owner cap-ex window is open. · Active permit
Service-agreement target: recurring maintenance revenue
Active permit: work underway at a just-sold building
Changed hands this quarter, and the new-owner cap-ex window is open.

A ~14,000 sq ft office building sold this quarter to new ownership, and an electrical permit was pulled at the same address weeks later. New owners re-tenant and modernize, so service upgrades, sub-panels, and LED relighting are the usual first spend. New owner plus active electrical work is about as strong a commercial signal as it gets. Reach out before they lock in an electrician.

Who to callhow we rate these
GC: Rex Electric & Technologies · (312) 555-0148 · site ↗ · estimating@rexelectric.example.com verified
Owner: Halsted Point Holdings LLC · (312) 555-0181 · leasing@halstedpoint.example.com verified
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The problem

The leads everyone's selling you weren't built for commercial work.

Most lead services were designed for homeowners with a tripped panel, not for the service upgrades, buildouts, and switchgear jobs that actually keep a commercial shop busy. So you pay a premium for the wrong work, and you share it with every other contractor who bought the same form fill.

The usual lead services

The same lead is sold to three to five contractors at once
$50 to $150 a lead, and most of it is residential service calls
You're bidding only after everyone else already saw it
No clue who actually owns or manages the building

Electrician Scout

Five public signals (permits, sales, violations, licenses, bids) re-scanned daily, versus the roughly twice-a-month refresh typical of data-only tools (as of mid-2026)
Commercial focus: service upgrades, buildouts, switchgear, EV, and bids
You see the work early, often before it reaches a bid list, with who to call and a drafted first message
Priced like a tool, not a territory. A flat monthly rate, no thousand-dollar county lock-in
How it works

Three steps, no cold-call lists.

You tell us where you work. We do the watching. You decide who's worth a call.

1

We watch the public record

Five kinds of public signal across the areas you serve: commercial and electrical permits, property sales, open code violations (forced repairs), new business licenses, and government electrical bids, re-checked every day, versus the roughly twice-a-month refresh typical of data-only tools (as of mid-2026).

2

We flag the real electrical scope

Not every filing matters. We surface the ones with genuine electrical work (service upgrades, panels, switchgear, power distribution, lighting, EV) and note the source and date, so you can judge it yourself.

3

You reach out first

Each opportunity comes with the public details, the contact we could resolve (who to call), and a drafted first message you can edit. You make the call, build the relationship, and win the work.

Built around commercial buildings

The properties where a service upgrade, switchgear job, or buildout is worth real money.

Office buildingsRetail centersWarehousesData centersHealthcareSchools & districtsHotelsManufacturingMultifamily
The math

One job pays for the year.

Commercial electrical isn't a $200 service call. A single service upgrade, switchgear replacement, tenant buildout, or EV-charging install runs into the thousands, often tens of thousands. Land one opportunity from your feed and your subscription has already paid for itself, usually for the whole year.

Your subscription
$200 to $1,300/mo
7-day free trial · month to month, cancel anytime
vs
One commercial job
$8,000 to $75,000+
Typical electrical scope

We can't promise you'll win every bid. Nobody honest can. But it only takes one to come out ahead for the year.

Pricing

Flat monthly pricing. No territory to buy.

A 7-day free trial, backed by a full refund guarantee. If it isn’t for you, get your money back. Cancel anytime afterward, month to month.

Starter
Try it on one area. Most shops are sold inside a week.
$200/mo
  • One county or local area
  • Up to 50 flagged opportunities a month
  • Permit and property-change signals
  • Weekly digest and email alerts
Local
For the growing shop ready to keep the calendar full.
$600/mo
  • Up to 3 counties
  • Every commercial electrical opportunity in your areas
  • Daily opportunity feed
  • Open commercial and public bids
Most popular
Regional
The sweet spot. Enough territory to keep crews booked, and one won job a month more than covers it.
$1,300/mo
  • Up to 6 counties
  • Everything in Local
  • Same-day alerts as soon as our daily scan finds it
  • AI-drafted outreach for every opportunity
  • Saved searches, filters, and tagging
  • Coverage built for a full sales territory
For big operators
Operator
One command center for your whole operation, every county and every rep, working from one shared pipeline.
$2,500/mo
  • Coverage across up to 15 counties
  • Everything in Regional
  • One shared account for your whole team, up to 10 seats
  • Every rep works the same live pipeline, across every county
  • Dedicated account manager and custom signal tuning

Two stacked Regional plans can't share a pipeline or a team. Operator runs the whole shop from one place, and one won bid covers it for years.

Why we exist

Built to fix one real problem.

A focused tool with one job, built by the team behind HVAC Scout, a proven sister product already doing this for contractors.

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Good contractors lose commercial work for one frustrating reason: they hear about the job last. By the time a bid reaches them, the general contractor already has three numbers and a relationship is already forming. Meanwhile the big lead services happily sell the same residential service call to five shops at once.

Electrician Scout exists to flip that. The information is already public (permits, property records, open bids). It's just scattered and tedious to track. We do the tracking, surface the commercial work with real electrical scope, and get it to you while there's still time to be first in the door.

This isn't a throwaway AI gimmick chasing a trend. We'd rather earn a smaller group of contractors who stick around for years than inflate a launch we can't stand behind. Straight talk, real sources, no padded feeds, and no territory games. That's the whole deal.

Jacob Pike, founder of Electrician Scout

What we do

Find real commercial opportunities from public records and get them to you early, with the source shown.

What we don't

Dress up residential service calls as commercial jobs, or resell you a form fill.

What we do

Tell you when a week is slow instead of padding your feed to look busy.

What we don't

Promise you'll win jobs, or sell you a county as private territory.

Questions, answered straight

No fine-print games. If something here isn't clear, ask before you pay.

Start finding commercial electrical jobs in your county.

The work is being filed in your county's public records right now. Create your account, choose a plan, and request the counties you serve. We activate them and your feed starts filling with commercial electrical opportunities, each with its public source attached.

7-day free trial · cancel anytime · every opportunity shows its public source.