Construction Leads in Montreal and Quebec

Quebec is the one market in the country where the rules themselves change how a trade contractor prospects. Licensing, workforce regulation, borough-level permitting, a province-wide summer shutdown and a single public tender system all shape when and how work is awarded. Builtie includes Montreal in its North American permit coverage and names the builder or developer behind private projects there; its records are densest around Toronto, so check a sample of current Montreal projects before relying on it here.

Five things that make this market different

• Contractor licensing. Quebec licenses construction contractors by category through a provincial body, so who can legally do what is defined more tightly than in most jurisdictions.
• Workforce regulation. The province regulates construction labor, trade qualification and working conditions in a way that affects scheduling and cost on nearly every commercial project.
• Borough-level permitting. On the island of Montreal, permits are handled at borough level, so a contractor working across the city is dealing with many separate offices rather than one.
• The summer shutdown. The industry takes an annual construction holiday, which compresses schedules on either side of it and shifts when packages have to be awarded.
• One public tender system. Public bodies advertise through the province's electronic tendering system, which makes public work unusually easy to find and unusually competitive.

What that means for timing

The summer shutdown is the practical one. Work that has to be finished before it, and work that has to start immediately after it, both get committed earlier than a contractor from another province would expect. A trade package that would normally be awarded in July is settled in the spring, and outreach timed to a national calendar arrives late in this market.

The housing stock is its own opportunity

Montreal's older residential neighborhoods are built around plexes: duplexes and triplexes, frequently with exterior staircases and shared walls. That stock produces a continuous flow of renovation, conversion and division work, and it is bought by owners and small contractors rather than by large builders. For finish and mechanical trades, it is a steady market that never appears on a tender board.

Language is part of the sale

French is the working language of construction in Quebec, and outreach that arrives in English to a francophone buyer reads as an out-of-province approach before it is read as an offer. Any serious prospecting here means writing in French, and it means understanding that the vocabulary of the trades is local rather than translated.

Public and private, side by side

Because public work is centralized and visible, it is tempting to build a business on it. It is also the most price-competitive route available. The private side, plex conversions, multi-unit residential and commercial fit-out, is where relationships decide the award, and it is found the same way it is found everywhere: by reading the permit record and reaching the buyer before anyone is invited.

Builtie covers North America and its deepest project and contact density is in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area, because permit data quality is decided by what each municipality publishes. Before you commit to any provider, ours included, ask to see live sample projects in your own city.

Builtie plans start at $79 per month per seat for 20 projects a month, and $99 for 50. Growth adds LinkedIn and email outreach you run from the platform; Starter does not include Outreach. Done-for-you — where Builtie's team runs the content, campaigns and replies for you — is the Custom plan. There is a 7-day free trial with 10 projects so you can see your own territory before paying.

Which plan fits you?

Starter, $79 per seat per month (CAD). 20 matched projects a month, which is $3.95 for a fully worked project — the decision maker, their verified email, phone and LinkedIn, the site context and the opening script all included in the one credit. Credits reset each month, and you can top up with a credit pack any time. Sourcing that by hand runs about twenty minutes a project, so the plan buys back roughly seven hours a month. Pick it if you already have someone sending the messages and what you are short of is a qualified list. It does not include Outreach.

Growth, $99 per seat per month (CAD). Twenty dollars more buys two and a half times the projects — 50 a month, $1.98 each — plus the entire outreach layer: LinkedIn and email sequences, campaigns, the unified inbox, events and social signals. Anyone opening more than 20 projects a month is better off here on volume alone, before counting the ten to fifteen hours a week that automated follow-up gives back. Pick it if someone on your team will log in and run it.

Done-For-You, the Custom plan, from CAD $1,500 a month. Pick it when the honest answer to “who is going to run this?” is nobody. Builtie's team writes the content, runs your LinkedIn, Instagram and email, answers the comments and DMs, builds and manages the campaigns, A/B tests the messaging, analyzes your followers and your competitors, and hands you the conversations. It sits on top of a Growth seat and is quoted against your trade, territory and channels. See everything Done-For-You covers, or compare all three on the pricing page.

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