ForeBuild scans every development application lodged across NSW and tells you about jobs that need your trade — before they go to open tender.
Sample data · Real dashboard updated daily from NSW ePlanning
Most tradies hear about jobs from word of mouth or when they're already tendered. ForeBuild gets you in 4–8 weeks earlier.
Every day, ForeBuild reads every development application lodged across NSW councils. Every project. Every suburb. Every trade type — updated daily.
Jobs needing your trade in your area get flagged immediately. Set your trade, your suburbs, your project size range — we do the rest automatically.
See the project before it goes to tender. Reach out to the builder first. That's the difference between winning work and quoting on jobs that are already awarded.
Most tradies find out about jobs at open tender. ForeBuild puts you in front of the builder when they're still planning — when relationships are still being formed.
Set your trade and the suburbs you work in. ForeBuild only shows you what's relevant to your business. No noise, no jobs you can't take on — and no wasted fuel chasing jobs across Sydney that you'd never travel for anyway.
A steady view of what's coming keeps your calendar full without constantly chasing work. See six weeks ahead, not two weeks behind.
When ForeBuild flags a job in your area, tap Send message to builder and an email draft pops up — pre-filled with the builder's name, the project address, and a message ready to send. You review it, hit send, done.
Not your style? Build your own templates — formal, casual, or as relaxed as you like. Save them in ForeBuild and they'll pre-fill automatically every time you reach out. Write it once, use it on every job.
Contact information sourced from publicly available business listings.
The builder with the best tradies is the one who built relationships early. ForeBuild gets you there first — every time.
Start 7-Day Free Trial| Without ForeBuild | With ForeBuild | |
|---|---|---|
| Find out about jobs | Word of mouth | Day DA is lodged |
| Timing | After tender opens | 4–8 weeks early |
| Forward visibility | Gut feel | Weekly pipeline update |
| Area coverage | Your network only | All of NSW |
| Time spent | 5+ hrs chasing leads | 10 min/day |
| Reach out to builders | Manual cold calls | One-tap from the app |
If you're flat out with work, you won't need this.
If things are quiet, or you want a steadier pipeline of jobs coming through — that's where we help.
We get asked a lot. Here's an honest list of what ForeBuild isn't, so you know exactly what you're signing up for.
We don't list your business, collect homeowner enquiries, or match you with customers. There's no marketplace here.
We don't sell you leads. HiPages sells enquiries from homeowners who've already decided to hire someone. ForeBuild shows you government planning data weeks earlier than that.
We don't place tradies with builders. We don't offer apprenticeships, qualifications, or employment. You find the job and reach out yourself.
We don't handle invoicing, quoting, scheduling, or job management. That's ServiceM8, Tradify, and similar tools. ForeBuild only helps you find work before it's tendered.
We provide intelligence, not guarantees. ForeBuild shows you what's coming up — it's up to you to reach out, quote, and win the job.
We don't hire subcontractors. ForeBuild Pty Ltd is a software company — we build data tools for the construction industry, we don't build buildings.
What ForeBuild IS: A construction data intelligence platform. We monitor NSW Government Development Applications (DA), Construction Certificates (CC), and Complying Development Certificates (CDC) from the official NSW ePlanning Open Data API and deliver that data to tradespeople — so you can reach builders first, before jobs go to open tender.
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The DA that could fill your calendar was lodged this week.
ForeBuild already knows about it. Do you?
ForeBuild was started by Harry Kermode, a NSW-based developer who noticed tradies were always the last to know about local construction work. The data was public — sitting in NSW government planning portals — but nobody had made it useful for the people who actually build things. So we built the infrastructure to change that.
Every DA lodged across NSW's 128 councils appears in ForeBuild within 24 hours. No middlemen. No aggregators. Just the raw planning data — filtered for your trade and your area.
ForeBuild monitors development applications across all 128 NSW councils daily — electricians, plumbers, carpenters, painters, tilers, concreters, roofers and all other trades.