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Boardwalk API
Programmatic access to land use development projects extracted from city and county meeting records. County, State, and National each include the same monthly export cap. Find Contact Info is a separate allowance.
The Boardwalk API returns structured records about land use development projects (apartments, subdivisions, warehouses, rezonings) extracted from the meeting minutes and agendas that city and county bodies publish. Each record carries what is proposed, where, who is behind it, what was decided, and the evidence for all of it.
What it costs
Three steps to a first response
- 1Create a free account, then create a key under Settings → API. A free trial includes 50 record-export credits (search, CSV, MCP) and 5 Find Contact Info lookups. Mix and match. They do not share a pool.
- 2Call a free endpoint to prove the key works, spending nothing.
- 3Search your first page of projects. On County, State, and National, each new or changed record counts toward the 100,000 export records a month. On the free trial and standalone API Only, each new or changed record costs 1 credit.
Where to start, by what you are building
Get net-new development leads, with contacts
Standing searches on a cadence, Find Contact Info when you want email or phone, and delivery state so you skip leads you already have.
Track competing projects and their status changes
Target an exact set of markets, follow decisions and named votes, and see what changed since you last looked.
Query Boardwalk from Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tools
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, or Microsoft Copilot, or use a compatible app for local models. Sign in with your Boardwalk account. No API key.
Embed Boardwalk data in your product
A stable field contract, a lossless incremental sync feed, and a versioning policy that says what we will and will not change under you.
What we are honest about
Two things are worth knowing before you build, and we would rather you read them here than discover them in production: coverage is per-state and is not nationwide, and extracted fields can be empty when the public record does not establish them. Both are written up in full.
Ready to make a call?
A free Boardwalk trial includes API access, 50 record-export credits (search, CSV, MCP), and 5 Find Contact Info lookups. Counting, taxonomy, location lookups, and the analytics plane cost nothing, so you can evaluate the data before you spend a credit.