Construction Decision-Maker Contacts in Los Angeles: Builders, GCs and Who Awards the Trades

The decision makers on Los Angeles construction projects are the builders, developers and general contractors behind each permit, and the person at each firm who awards the trades. Builtie resolves the company from the permit, finds that person, and verifies them by the employer they declare before you ever call.

Who awards the work in Los Angeles

Los Angeles permits are filed for the project, so the name on a new permit is usually the builder or general contractor who awards the trades.

The data is the City of Los Angeles: the building permits the Department of Building and Safety (LADBS) issues. Santa Monica, Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank, Long Beach and the rest of Los Angeles County issue their own permits and are not in the feed today. The city's open dataset names no contractor, so Builtie reads each permit's LADBS record for the contractor and their CSLB license, the architect and the engineer. Many Los Angeles permits are owner-builder, and on those the architect is the first contact.

The busiest names on Los Angeles new-build permits

The busiest names on Los Angeles new-build permits are small and mid-size residential builders, with ADU specialists among them. The list covers the permits whose LADBS record Builtie has read so far, so it ranks firms that are active rather than sizing the market. Counted over the 12 months to October 9, 2026; company names are shortened from the permit record.

What verified means

Builtie traces each project from the permit to the operating company, matches a person by the employer they declare themselves, and corroborates name, company and location before storing the contact. In Builtie's own checks, 17% of people matched to a construction company by name alone worked somewhere else. A general office line is labelled as one. How the verification works.

Finding the project manager

Permits rarely name the project manager. Identify the builder or general contractor first, then the person who runs projects of that type and size at that firm, and check their current employer on their own profile. How to find construction project manager contacts.

Plans

Builtie's Starter plan is $79 per seat per month (CAD) for 20 projects; Growth is $99 for 50 projects and adds the LinkedIn and email outreach you run yourself. Opening a project spends one credit, and the decision makers, emails, phones and AI call script inside it are included. Your monthly credits reset at each renewal, and extra credit packs are valid for 30 days. The free trial runs 7 days with 10 projects. Custom, where Builtie's team runs the outreach for you, starts from CAD $1,500 a month on top of a Growth seat.

Builtie's deepest coverage is in the Greater Toronto Area, where it started; depth in any city depends on what that municipality publishes. Ask for live sample projects in your own service area before you buy.

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