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US contractors ranked by city permits, permit costs and timelines, solar and generator sizing.
Remote server: your requests and data go to contractors.fyi. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http contractors-fyi https://contractors.fyi/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
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list_coverage — Which cities and kinds of work contractors.fyi covers, with the dates each list covers. Call this before the other tools to get valid city afind_contractors — Contractors ranked by how many jobs of this kind their city permit record shows. Returns name, license where the state publishes one, job coproject_cost — What city permits for this kind of work stated as the job value: median and middle half, with the number of permits and their dates. Give a permit_timeline — Days from permit application to issue, and from issue to final inspection, from the dates on city permits, with the number of permits and thsearch_contractor_records — Look a contractor up by business name across every city covered: the city, how many permitted jobs are on its record there, and its profile solar_estimate — Size a home solar system from the monthly electric bill (or its kWh, or, with neither, the home and what runs on electricity), plus anythingcheck_solar_quote — Where a solar quote's price falls among what homeowners in the same city paid for a system of the same size (Berkeley Lab records, homeownergenerator_size — The smallest common home standby generator size, with 10% to spare, for the things that must run in an outage: running watts plus the biggesNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.