charKnow what's getting built in Kansas City before it goes to bid.
char reads every planning commission and city council agenda in the metro, plus the staff reports behind them. It tells you who's building, what stage each project is in, and what to do next, then sends the jobs that fit your trade every Monday.
found in city meeting records in the last 30 days
profiled, with who's on each project team
real public bids behind the bid calculator
watched now: . Lenexa, Overland Park and Shawnee are next.
How it works
Six steps, every week, while you're on the job site. You read one email on Monday.
- We read the agendas and the documents behind them.Rezonings, subdivision plats, site plans, tax incentives and public construction contracts, pulled from city meeting records, along with the staff reports and applications attached to each one.
- We find who's behind it.Each project gets its development team as named in the city's documents: developer, owner, civil engineer, architect, attorney. Companies only, never personal contacts.
- We tell you where it stands.Instead of "preliminary plat," you read "Development advancing. Construction likely in 6 to 18 months. Find out who's on the team and start the relationship."
- We sort it for your trade.Site work, concrete, roofing, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, general contractors, developers and suppliers each get the projects that fit them, and nothing else.
- You get it Monday morning.What's being built, where, how big, who's behind it, what stage it's in, and a link to the official record. Follow the projects you care about on the site.
- You bid it right.Run your number through the bid calculator and compare it with what similar Kansas City jobs actually went for, from hundreds of real public bid results.
The first question is always who's building it?
char answers it on every project, then shows everything else that developer has moving across the metro.
- Development team
- Developer, owner, civil engineer, architect and attorney, read from the city's own staff reports and applications. If a document doesn't name someone, the line stays blank. Nothing is guessed.
- Developer profiles
- Every project a developer has in the pipeline, across cities, with the lots and square feet they've planned in the last 30 days. See who's building
- Related projects
- One subdivision is a lead. A developer with six of them is a customer. Each project lists the others by the same developer.
- Follow
- Star a project and it stays at the top of your projects page, so you can watch it move from hearing to approval.
What stage is it in, and what should you do about it?
City approvals happen in a known order. char puts every project on this line and tells you the next move.
This month's biggest projects
A free preview from public records. Subscribers get every project, sorted for their trade.
public bid results, every bidder and every price, updated weekly.
Bid it without leaving money on the table
Small contractors lose the most at bid time: cutting too deep to win, forgetting costs, or missing a requirement on page 140. The bid calculator uses your numbers, shows your real margin, and flags what people forget, like mobilization, bonds, testing, dumpsters and supervision.
- Kansas City bid history. Every bidder and price from MoDOT, Missouri state buildings, Lee's Summit, Kansas City, Kansas City, Kansas and Lee's Summit R-7 schools, sorted by trade.
- How close the winners were. The usual number of bidders, how far the winner beat second place, and how winning bids compared with the city's estimate.
- Price per square foot. Your number next to what owners declared on thousands of Kansas City building permits.
- Share a result. Add your own bid results anonymously and the history keeps growing.
One plan. One job pays for the year.
First month free, no card. If you don't find at least one project worth bidding in 60 days, you get every dollar back. Pay yearly and get two months free.
Start your free month
Takes a minute. Your first digest arrives next Monday.