Dodge follows construction projects. Proxi follows the businesses, across every public record they leave behind, and ranks which of them is about to buy.
TLDRDodge Construction Network tracks construction projects: plans, bids, and the companies attached to them. Proxi is the industrial database tracker: it tracks the businesses themselves across 10,000+ public sources (not just construction documents: 811 locates, environmental filings, licenses, court records, hiring) and ranks which of the 11M+ physical-economy businesses in your territory is entering a buying window. Project-centric versus business-centric is the whole difference.
Dodge Construction Network is the long standing standard for construction project intelligence: planned and bidding projects, plans and specifications, bid dates, and the firms attached to a job. If your business is won at the project level, meaning you are a subcontractor, supplier, or manufacturer who needs to be on the bid list for a specific building before it breaks ground, then a plan room is the correct tool and Dodge is the reference point for it. It is sold as project data subscriptions scoped by region and role.
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. Many of the businesses that buy industrial equipment never appear in a plan room. 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. They leave a heavy public 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 | Dodge Construction Network | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 intelligence: planned and bidding projects, plans and specifications, bid dates, and the firms on a job |
| Question it answers | Which businesses in my territory are entering a buying window, and what proves it | Which projects are coming, and who is bidding or building them |
| 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 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 lists, and access to plans and specifications |
| Best fit | Territory based industrial and equipment sales, where you sell to the company rather than to the job | Project pursuit and bid coverage, where being on the right bid list is the sale |
| Pricing model | Per territory, not per seat | Project data subscriptions, scoped by region and role |
Yes. The two answer different questions and the overlap is small. Dodge tells you which projects are coming and who is bidding them. 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.
Yes. Construction permits are one source among many, alongside 811 locate tickets, environmental records, state filings, licenses, procurement awards, 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 bid process, while Proxi tries to see the business itself no matter how its work arrives.