How insurance agents find newly licensed contractors
Timing is the entire advantage. Here's why the week a contractor gets licensed is the moment to reach them — and how to get that list without living in fifty state portals.
The window is short
A newly licensed contractor is buying general liability and equipment in the same few weeks — and usually hasn't committed to an agent yet. The agent who shows up first, before the field crowds in, wins the relationship.
The bond is not in that window. Where a state requires one, it has to be posted before the licence is issued, so by the time a contractor appears on this list their first bond is already written. That makes a new licence a GL opportunity and not a surety one — the surety opening is the renewal, which is a different list.
The data is public — but painful
Every state licensing board publishes new licenses. They're also scattered across dozens of portals, formatted differently, and slow to surface. Pulling them by hand, every week, across states, is exactly the grind that never gets done.
The shortcut
First Call Feed pulls, normalizes, and verifies new licenses across states and delivers the week's fresh ones every Monday — with contact details and expiration where the state publishes them. What each state publishes per record differs, and the price and the spec sheet both say so before you buy. You skip the portals and spend the time selling.
Get the full feed
The aggregates here are free. The paid feed carries every new licence in full, for one state, sold to one agency in it. What the record contains varies by state — the board decides, not us — and each state's price and spec sheet say exactly what you get. 7 contractor states are open today.
See pricing →FAQ
Why target newly licensed contractors?
A contractor who just got licensed is buying general liability and equipment right now, and usually hasn't picked an agent yet. Reaching them first is the whole game. Note the bond is already gone: in bond-required states it has to be posted BEFORE the licence issues, so a new licence is a GL opportunity, not a surety one.
A contractor who just got licensed is buying general liability and equipment right now, and usually hasn't picked an agent yet. Reaching them first is the whole game. Note the bond is already gone: in bond-required states it has to be posted BEFORE the licence issues, so a new licence is a GL opportunity, not a surety one.
Where can I find newly licensed contractors?
State licensing boards publish the records, but they're scattered, slow, and formatted inconsistently. A normalized weekly feed like First Call Feed does the assembly for you.
State licensing boards publish the records, but they're scattered, slow, and formatted inconsistently. A normalized weekly feed like First Call Feed does the assembly for you.
How fast does timing matter?
Fast. The first agent to reach a new licensee has a large edge, so a weekly cadence beats a quarterly list.
Fast. The first agent to reach a new licensee has a large edge, so a weekly cadence beats a quarterly list.