How DA Notice works.
Approved builds in your suburbs, in your trade, sent to your phone every week.
What it is
The four steps
Set it up once. The digest lands every Monday morning.
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You tell us your trade and your suburbs.
Two minutes, one form. Pick your trade (builder, electrician, plumber, carpenter, roofer, tiler, painter, bricklayer, concretor, pool builder, landscaper, earthmoving) and tick the suburbs you actually work in. We currently cover Central Coast, Lake Macquarie, Mid-Coast Council, and Port Macquarie-Hastings, with Wollongong opening shortly. Change either any time from your settings page.
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We scrape councils every week.
Once a week, our scraper hits the public NSW Planning Portal and the council sources we cover. We pull every DA logged in your suburbs, then filter to the ones that match your trade. No login, no portal-watching, no spreadsheet-trawling on your end.
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We text you the digest.
Every Monday morning the matched DAs land on your phone as an SMS. Address, trade category, status, and a link to the full detail page if you want more. Short enough to read on the way to a job.
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You reply to action the leads.
Reply SAVE to keep a lead, CHASING to mark you are working it, QUOTED, DONE, or WON to move it along the pipeline. Reply STOP any time to cancel. Your pipeline lives in your member area.
What you get
Two tiers. Start on Standard, upgrade when the contact intel earns its keep.
Standard
- Weekly SMS digest, filtered to your trade and your suburbs.
- Member area with a five-stage pipeline (Saved, Chasing, Quoted, Done, Won).
- Contacts list you build as you work the leads.
- Cancel any time, no contract.
Pro
- Architect firm + contact. Firm name, phone, and email pulled from the plans and cached.
- Applicant intel. Company name and entity type where the applicant is a business. Private individuals never enriched.
- Top-3 in the SMS. Highest-value DAs come through in the text itself. The rest are one tap away.
- WhatsApp lead hunt. Ask for fresh DAs in your suburbs on demand. Five pulls a day, on top of Monday.
For builders and bigger operators
Currently in dry-run with a Victorian vendor. Lake Macquarie first, VIC builder cohort second.
Builders working across multiple trades and larger sites need a different read on the same data. Pro gives you:
- Every approved DA in your region, not just one trade category.
- Architect firm contacts so you can pitch into the design relationship, not just the build.
- Applicant entity type so you can tell a developer pipeline from a one-off owner-builder before you spend the call.
- The same SMS + WhatsApp surface as the sole-trade Pro tier.
If you are a builder reading this and want in on the dry-run, lionsedgetech@gmail.com.
What we don't do
The short list. Worth saying out loud.
Ready to see what's been approved in your suburbs this week?
Two minutes to sign up. First digest lands the following Monday.