Local Signal Watch Agent

The problem it solves

Field-service and trades teams lose warm jobs because they find out about storms, permits, and new movers too late, after scraping portals and skimming news by hand. Local Signal Watch automates that monitoring and hands your team a ranked call list with addresses and a suggested first move, so you reach prospects while the need is fresh.

Who it's for

• Restoration contractors chasing same-day hail and wind events
• HVAC contractors timing seasonal demand and new-construction permits
• Landscaping and pest control operators targeting new movers and seasonal windows
• General contractors and subcontractors tracking residential and commercial permit filings
• Real estate professionals reading permit and mover signals for buying or listing activity

What it does

1. 1

   Configure your signals

   Tell the agent which signal types to watch, the permit categories that matter, and the zip codes, counties, or metro you cover.

2. 2

   Poll the right sources on the right cadence

   It checks weather and storm data near-real-time, permit portals the next business day, and mover lists weekly, matching each source to how fast its signals move.

3. 3

   Extract prospect details

   For each trigger it pulls the address, the permit type or event description, estimated project scope where available, and the signal source and date.

4. 4

   Deduplicate against your pipeline

   It cross-references your CRM or spreadsheet and skips any address with an open opportunity, recent activity, or a do-not-contact flag.

5. 5

   Score and rank prospects

   Remaining leads are ranked by trigger recency, estimated job value, and geographic density so nearby addresses cluster for efficient routing.

6. 6

   Build a structured digest

   Each entry shows the address, signal type and date, a one-line reason it's warm, and a suggested first-contact action, grouped by signal type with the hottest items first.

7. 7

   Deliver to Slack on schedule

   It posts the digest to your chosen channel daily or weekly, and sends a brief 'no new signals' note on quiet days so you know it ran.

8. 8

   Track status back to your system

   Mark a lead as contacted and the agent updates your CRM or tracker so it never resurfaces an address you've already worked.

Key benefits

• Reach storm and permit prospects the same day instead of weeks late
• Replace manual permit-portal scraping and news monitoring with one automated digest
• Never waste a call on a contact already in your pipeline thanks to built-in deduplication
• Prioritize by recency, job value, and geography so reps work the best leads first
• Route efficiently by clustering nearby addresses into the same run
• Stay covered across storms, permits, movers, and seasonal windows from a single agent

Sample use cases

Key integrations

• Weather / storm data API

  Detects severe events like hail, wind, flooding, and freeze across your monitored geography.

• Public permit portals

  Pulls newly filed building permits by zip code, county, or metro, filtered to your relevant categories.

• New-mover list source

  Ingests recently relocated households from a connected spreadsheet, CSV, or data provider.

• CRM or spreadsheet

  Deduplicates prospects and tracks lead status so contacts aren't worked twice.

• Slack

  Delivers the prioritized prospect digest to your team channel on a daily or weekly schedule.

Getting started

1. Import the workspace — Add the Local Signal Watch workspace to your Gamut account to get the agent and its onboarding ready.
2. Run the agent-onboarding skill — It interviews you about your trade, signal types, permit categories, geography, tracker, and Slack channel, then writes your configuration.
3. Give it a first task — Ask it to pull today's storm and permit signals for your metro and return a list of addresses to call.

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