ConstructConnect follows construction projects and the bidding around them. Proxi follows the businesses themselves, across every public record they leave behind, and ranks which of them is entering a buying window.
TLDRConstructConnect is a construction project data and preconstruction platform: project leads, bid management, plan rooms, and takeoff and estimating tools, with the iSqFt lineage behind it. Proxi is the industrial database tracker: it reads 10,000+ public sources (not just construction documents, but 811 locate tickets, environmental filings, licenses, court records, and hiring) across 11M+ physical-economy businesses and ranks which ones in your territory are entering a buying window. Project-centric versus business-centric is the whole difference.
ConstructConnect is built around the construction project and the bidding that surrounds it: project leads, bid management, plan rooms, and takeoff and estimating tools, a lineage that runs back through iSqFt. If your revenue is won job by job, meaning you are a general contractor assembling bids, a subcontractor trying to be on the invitation list, or a building-product manufacturer who needs to be specified before a job breaks ground, then a preconstruction platform is the correct tool and ConstructConnect is one of the reference points for it. It is scoped by region and by the role you play on a job.
Proxi is the industrial database tracker. It reads more than 10,000 public record sources continuously (state business filings, 811 locate tickets, construction and environmental permits, licenses, procurement awards, court records, job postings, and the open web), resolves every record to one of over 11 million businesses in the physical economy, and every morning ranks the businesses in your territory by what their records just did. Each name arrives with the record that put it there and a phone number.
Where the difference shows up. Plenty of the businesses that buy machines, parts, rentals, and service never appear in a plan room at all. A hydro excavation outfit, a water well driller, a septic and utility contractor, a hauler, a fab shop: their work is small jobs, private work, service calls, and maintenance contracts, so they leave a heavy trail of locate tickets, permits, license renewals, and awards and almost no project documents. It runs the other way too. A project record tells you a building is going out to bid. It does not tell you that the contractor who just won it is three crews short of doing the work, which is the fact that sells a machine.
| Proxi | ConstructConnect | |
|---|---|---|
| What the data is | Every public record type, resolved to one business: filings, 811 locates, permits, environmental records, licenses, awards, court records, hiring | Construction project data: project leads, plans and specifications, bid documents, and the firms attached to a job |
| Question it answers | Which businesses in my territory are entering a buying window, and what proves it | Which projects are coming, who is bidding them, and what would it cost to build |
| Unit of coverage | A business (11M+ businesses, including trades that never file a project document) | A construction project and the firms attached to it |
| Freshness | Each source polled on its own publishing cadence, from minutes for locate feeds to daily for permits and registers; the call sheet is rebuilt each morning | Project records updated as a job moves through planning, design, and bidding |
| Workflow output | A ranked call sheet with the record behind each name and a phone number, pushed into your CRM | Project leads, bid invitations, plan room access, and takeoff and estimating tools |
| Center of gravity | Trades and industrial businesses across the physical economy, and the dealers and suppliers who sell to them | The construction vertical: general contractors, subcontractors, and building-product manufacturers |
| Pricing model | Per territory, not per seat | Subscriptions scoped by region and by your role on a job |
Yes, and the overlap is small enough that many teams do. ConstructConnect tells you which projects are coming and gets you into the bid. Proxi tells you which companies in your territory are about to buy, including the trades and service businesses that never appear on a plan set. If your week is part bid calendar and part territory calling, the two feed different halves of it.
Yes. Construction permits are read daily and procurement awards hourly, alongside 811 locate tickets, environmental records, state filings, licenses, court records, and job postings. A permit on its own is one data point. The ranking comes from what several sources say about the same business in the same week.
No. Proxi pushes the ranked list and the evidence into the CRM your team already uses. It is the input that decides the day's calls, not a replacement system of record.
Often yes, as context. Knowing a customer just won work is useful whether the tip came from a bid tabulation or an award filing. The difference is coverage: project feeds see the work that runs through a formal preconstruction process, while Proxi tries to see the business itself no matter how its work arrives.