FOR IRISH BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS

Be First On Site.

New jobs, spotted early.

Every morning we read Ireland's planning and construction data, find the projects that match your trade and counties, and send one short email: the person to call and why it's worth calling now.

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Sign-up takes about 30 seconds: pick your counties and trade. We onboard founding members personally - usually within a day. Free to start, no card needed.

We do the digging so you don't have to.

We read the registers, connect the records and filter the noise. What reaches you is the result: the jobs worth pursuing, the person to call, and why it's worth calling now.

7 in 10leads include someone you can call today
9 in 10carry a named professional
31 / 31Irish local authorities, read daily
1 emailyour morning call list

From a planning application to a person you can call

One real project, delivered to a subscriber in August 2026. Left: what the public register shows. Right: the same lead as FirstOnSite delivered it.

THE COUNCIL REGISTER
First floor extension over existing single storey extension
Corrig Road, Dalkey, Co. Dublin
Status: Granted
Agent: a name, and a partial phone number missing its area code
THE SAME LEAD ON FIRSTONSITE
Work starts 18 Aug - subscribers told 12 days ahead
The person to call: B●●●●●● V●●●●●●●●, architect - direct mobile 086 ●●● ●●●●
Their track record: 8 projects on file, avg €333k, 100% of decisions granted
Painting angle: finishes stage · 15 fields in all on the full lead
See the full example, field by field →
Contact details masked here - subscribers see the full contact. The original council record is linked there too, so you can check us.

How it works

Three steps, every single morning.

1 We read everything, every day
Every council planning portal, An Bord Pleanála, building-control commencement notices and the public tenders platforms - all 31 local authorities, checked daily. Nothing filed in Ireland gets past the net.
2 We work out who to call
Each record is checked that it's real building work, valued against Irish build costs, placed on the map, and matched to the architect, engineer or planning consultant who filed it - with their business phone or email wherever one is published.
3 You get a short morning email
The best few jobs for your counties and your trade, each with a reason to act and the person to contact. Plus an alert the moment one of your jobs moves - a permission granted, or work about to start.

Built for trades that need the next job

Groundworks · Concrete · Blockwork · Steelwork · Carpentry · Roofing · Windows & Doors · Plumbing · Electrical · Plastering · Painting · Landscaping

Choose your counties and trade when you sign up - your morning call list is built around them.

Why builders and contractors use it

Hear about jobs first

Applications reach you within days of being filed - weeks before signs go up or word gets around.

A person to call, not just an address

The architect, engineer or planning consultant who filed the job, with a direct phone or email on most leads.

Only your patch, only your trade

Pick your counties and trade once. Every alert is filtered to jobs that could actually be yours - nothing from the far side of the country.

Know when work is starting

Commencement notices carry the exact date a site breaks ground. We tell you before it happens, while there's still time to make the call.

Your morning call list

Here's one from this morning's email - a real alert, exactly as subscribers received it.

REF F20A/0204/E1 · FINGAL CO. CO. · RECEIVED 21 DAYS AGONEW APPLICATION

Residential Development With Retail And Public Realm

Lands to the South of Main Street, Corballis East, Donabate, Co Dublin
55-unit mixed residential scheme with retail, public infrastructure and Protected Structure car park works. Multi-storey houses and apartments across all trades. Substantial water engineering (pumping station, attenuation tank) and public road/lighting upgrades.
€15.4m-€18.7mEST. VALUE
30 SeptDECISION DUE
New BuildCATEGORY
Do this: Ask the project agent or applicant for the construction programme phasing, the appointed contractor or design team, and whether work packages are planned for separate tender stages.
● THE PERSON TO CALL
Sinead O●●●●
018 ●●● ●●53 · d●●●●●@●●●●.ie
Details masked here. Subscribers get the full contact.
See everything we know about one real lead →

What we read every morning.

Public records of building work across all 31 local authorities, collected and cross-checked daily. We don't just collect applications - we connect them. These are today's figures, straight from our database.

0applications on file
19,542granted & never started
375sites breaking ground this fortnight
162public contracts open now
0appeals monitored
7 in 10leads with direct phone/email
31 / 31local authorities
Dailyevery source, every morning
Straight from our database - counts live, rates as 7-day rolling figures. Real numbers, not marketing ones.
MORE ABOUT THE DATA
Where it all comes from
Every planning application in the country, An Bord Pleanála appeals, building-control commencement notices, public tenders and the companies register. Three years of history on file, so we know a job's whole story.
What happens to each record
Each one is checked that it's real building work, valued against Irish build costs, placed on the map, and matched to the professional who filed it.
What actually reaches you
The results, filtered to your counties and your trade: new jobs while they're fresh, sites about to break ground, and permissions granted months ago that never started.

Why I built FirstOnSite

My dad ran a roofing business for years. Finding the next job meant relying on contacts, word of mouth and knowing where to look.

A lot of the information was already public - it was just scattered across a load of different sources, and hard to put together into something that made sense.

So I built FirstOnSite to do that work every day - find the projects worth knowing about, work out who to contact, and put it into a straightforward morning call list.

The founder

Fair questions

The three everyone asks. The rest get their own page.

Where does the information come from?

Public Irish records: council planning portals, the national database, commencement notices and public tenders. We find it faster and make it readable.

Do I actually get a phone number?

On most jobs, yes. It's the architect or agent named on the application. When there isn't one, we say so straight and link you to the council file.

What does it cost?

Free to start, no card. Then €29 a month - the founding-member rate, locked in for as long as you stay subscribed. Future members will pay the standard rate. Cancel whenever, and your alerts run to the end of what you've paid for.

All the questions, answered →

Know what's worth calling about tomorrow morning

Set up your morning call list - about 30 seconds. Change any of it later from a link in every email.

Just a town, enough to show how far away each job is. Never your exact address.

Every county is covered. Tap a county, a whole province, or leave the lot blank for all of Ireland.

We tailor each alert to what matters for your trade.

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