fyi.contractors/contractors

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contractors.fyi

Publisher-provided description

US contractors ranked by city permits, permit costs and timelines, solar and generator sizing.

Summary by lookupd

Lets agents look up US contractors by city permit records, estimate project costs and timelines, and size solar systems and home generators.

Install

Claude Code, remote (streamable-http)

claude mcp add --transport http contractors https://contractors.fyi/mcp

Codex, remote (streamable-http)

codex mcp add contractors --url https://contractors.fyi/mcp

Cursor, remote (streamable-http) → .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "contractors": {
      "url": "https://contractors.fyi/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Other clients: docs. Or tell your agent: Set up lookupd for me: read https://lookupd.com/agent.md and follow it.

Publisher-provided text

list_coverage Which cities and kinds of work contractors.fyi covers, with the dates each list covers. Call this before the other tools to get valid city and kind_of_work valu
find_contractors Contractors ranked by how many jobs of this kind their city permit record shows. Returns name, license where the state publishes one, job count, typical stated
project_cost What city permits for this kind of work stated as the job value: median and middle half, with the number of permits and their dates. Give a ZIP to get that ZIP'
permit_timeline Days from permit application to issue, and from issue to final inspection, from the dates on city permits, with the number of permits and the dates they cover.
search_contractor_records Look a contractor up by business name across every city covered: the city, how many permitted jobs are on its record there, and its profile URL. This searches t
solar_estimate Size a home solar system from the monthly electric bill (or its kWh, or, with neither, the home and what runs on electricity), plus anything the home plans to a
check_solar_quote Where a solar quote's price falls among what homeowners in the same city paid for a system of the same size (Berkeley Lab records, homeowner-owned systems, no b
generator_size The smallest common home standby generator size, with 10% to spare, for the things that must run in an outage: running watts plus the biggest motor's start. Als

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