Record Foundry
PUBLIC DATA · PRACTICAL TOOLS

Public records.
Less digging.

Find the useful details inside government datasets. Get focused reports with the relevant details, supporting text from government records, and sources you can check.

Explore the data APIs
01 / Official records02 / Fixed processing rules03 / Usable reports
THE CATALOG

Three focused APIs.

Run on Apify. Use the results in a spreadsheet, your own software, or an AI agent.

01
AUSTIN, TEXAS · COMMERCIAL PERMITS

What is this property becoming?

Find commercial building permits that explicitly describe a change from one use to another. See the previous use, planned new use, address, and official permit link.

  • Full permit descriptions and the text supporting each change
  • Issue dates, statuses, and summary counts

Covers explicit change-of-use wording in Austin commercial building permits. A permit does not confirm a business opening or completed work.

$1per nonempty report

View Austin API View sample report
02
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS · BUILDING PERMITS

Spot changes in use and occupancy.

Find Chicago permit descriptions with explicit changes in property use or occupancy, including commercial and residential records. See the text from the permit that supports each extracted change.

  • Previous and planned uses, with evidence quotes
  • Addresses, permit status, and summary counts

City of Chicago only. Select up to 31 days of permit issue dates per report. Results are not an exhaustive list of changes or current occupancy.

$1per nonempty report

View Chicago API View sample report
03
UNITED STATES · FDA IMPORT REFUSALS

Look up a facility’s refusal history.

Enter a facility’s FDA Establishment Identifier (FEI). Get matching records from the FDA’s 2024–current import refusal export, with refusal charge descriptions and source coverage details.

  • Exact FEI matching and decoded charge codes
  • Original records, summary counts, and retrieval details

Import refusals only. Does not check recalls, warning letters, or import alerts. No matches does not mean a supplier is cleared.

$0.50per nonempty report

View FDA API View sample report

No report charge for successful queries with no matches. An authenticated Apify account and sufficient run budget are required. Current pricing and full coverage limits are on each listing.

PUT THE DATA TO WORK

Austin permits.
Meet Google Sheets.

Use our published n8n template to bring commercial permit-use changes into a sheet for review.

Get the n8n template

The template is free. Apify report charges and your n8n hosting costs may apply.

1

Choose a permit date range.

2

Run the Austin API through n8n.

3

Review the results in Google Sheets.

WHAT WE ADD

The records are public.
The preparation is the product.

Government datasets are free to access. We handle the queries, extract a narrow set of useful details, and return consistent reports with the original evidence.

Every run fetches the publisher’s current data and processes it with fixed Python rules. No LLM calls are used to produce these reports. Source updates can lag events, and downloaded reports remain snapshots.

Collection failures are reported as errors, rather than passed off as successful searches with no matches.

Read the full documentation on Apify
FOR AGENTS & DEVELOPERS

Use the same tools
from your workflow.

Each listing includes input fields, output documentation, examples, and API access. Connect an agent through Apify’s MCP server, or call the Actor through the Apify API.

For Austin and Chicago, empty input uses the latest seven UTC dates. For FDA, supply an exact FEI. Review the listing’s coverage before running.

Apify MCP documentation
GET IN TOUCH

A useful record.
A missing tool.

Tell us what you’re trying to find and where the current process gets stuck.

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