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Reach Chicago businesses the week they're licensed.

Every business license filed with the City of Chicago, indexed and filterable within a week of being licensed. Free tier includes one saved search with weekly email alerts.

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Licenses on file01 / 03
208,190
Refreshed every morning from City of Chicago records
Permits on file02 / 03
295,090
Building permits issued across Chicago
Added the last 7 days03 / 03
+570
New licenses indexed in the past week
Who it’s for

Your best prospects aren’t in any database yet.

Most prospecting tools list businesses that have been around long enough to get scraped. By then they have a payroll provider, a POS, a broker, a sign in the window. The licenses filed last Tuesday don’t have any of that yet.

BizPulse exists for the reps who want to be the first call, not the seventeenth: a saved search, an inbox alert, a list of warm names by Monday morning.

AccountantsCommercial cleaningBusiness insuranceMerchant servicesSign companiesPayroll providersFood distributorsBusiness bankersCommercial real estate
Why us

Three things no other tool does.

01
Daily, not quarterly.
The City of Chicago posts new license records continuously. We ingest, normalize, and geocode every record overnight — what the city posts Tuesday is searchable Wednesday morning, not in next quarter’s data drop.
02
Save it, forget it, get the list.
Set up a saved search once ("new restaurants, Logan Square, no liquor license"). We email you the matches every Monday. No dashboard to babysit, no Slack bot to ignore.
03
$99 a month. Cancel from settings.
No annual contract, no procurement gauntlet, no "talk to sales." If it doesn’t pay for itself in the first 30 days, you turn it off the same way you turned it on.
The product

Filters that match how reps actually qualify.

Filter by license type, neighborhood, filing date, business activity, and whether the address had a prior license at the same parcel. Export to CSV on Pro.

47 filter types · 77 ZIP codes · 22 ward filters

new license · type: restaurant · neighborhood: logan square
7 daysExport
BusinessTypeAddressFiled
Logan Square Coffee Co.Retail Food Est.2d ago
Palma Wine Bar LLCTavern · Consumption3d ago
Greenline ProvisionsRetail Food Est.5d ago
Diversey Hospitality GroupRestaurant · Full6d ago
Maplewood AnnexRetail Food Est.7d ago
Pricing
Honest pricing.
Two tiers.

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$0/month · forever
  • Results per search25
  • Time window7 days
  • Saved searches1
  • Email alertsWeekly
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  • Results per search10,000
  • Time windowAll-time
  • Saved searches5
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208,190 licenses on file, and +570 filed in the last 7 days.

Updated every morning from City of Chicago records.

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Every new Chicago business license filed last week, in your inbox Monday morning. No account required. Unsubscribe in one click. Roughly 1,200 lines a week.

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