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New-business signals · Ontario

Every new business in the GTA — the week it's licensed.

FileSignal watches municipal licence, permit and registry releases, flags what's genuinely new, and delivers it to your CRM — phone numbers included where the public record has them.

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Sourced from City of Toronto open data · refreshed daily · residential records suppressed

signals.feed — new businesses
Live
  • Oct 31Fushi CoRestaurants & barsnew
  • Oct 31Japan SushiRestaurants & barsnew
  • Oct 31Burger CrewRestaurants & barsnew
  • Oct 31Doughbox Wood Fired Pizza & Pasta - RexdaleRestaurants & barsnew
  • Oct 31Ali ShawarmaRestaurants & barsnew
  • Oct 31Second Cup CafeRestaurants & barsnew
  • Oct 31Luxify Nails LeslieSalons, spas & personal carenew
  • Oct 31Man O'ClockSalons, spas & personal carenew
Non-residential records only · names, category, city
New businesses this week
113
New businesses this month
439
Categories tracked
20

Live counts from the FileSignal database: non-residential new-licence signals, Toronto.

How it works

From public release to your pipeline in four steps.

Recency is the product. By the time a new business appears in a purchased list, someone else has already signed it.
  1. 01

    Collect

    We pull municipal licence, permit and registry releases from official open-data portals on their published cadence — daily for Toronto.

  2. 02

    Detect

    Every record is diffed against everything we've seen. A licence number we've never seen, issued inside the window, is new. A known one with a new date is a renewal.

  3. 03

    Enrich

    Names are normalised, licence types mapped to plain categories, postal codes cleaned, and home-based registrations suppressed before anything leaves the building.

  4. 04

    Deliver

    Signals arrive the way you work: a filtered web feed, CSV, a daily or weekly email digest, a CRM webhook, or the REST API.

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Who it's for

Built for businesses that sell to new businesses.

Anatomy of a signal

Every field carries its receipt.

Each signal records which public dataset each field came from, the source record id and when we fetched it. No black-box scores, no scraped contact data.
  • → New vs renewal decided by licence-id history, not guesswork
  • → Phone only when the public record includes one
  • → Home-based registrations removed before delivery
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Sample record — fictional values
business_name
Example Noodle House
↳ Operating Name
category
Restaurants & bars
↳ mapped from licence type
address
123 Example St W, Toronto
↳ Licence Address Line 1
postal_code
M5V 0A1
↳ validated format
phone
(416) 555-0100
↳ only if in the record
effective_date
2026-10-27
↳ Issued
confidence
0.95
↳ new id, issued in window
field_provenance.business_name = { source: "City of Toronto — MLS Business Licences", record: "B71-…", fetched_at: "2026-10-28T10:15Z" }

Coverage

Toronto today. The rest of the GTA as the data opens up.

We only ship a municipality when its data is published under an open licence and we can tell new from renewal reliably.
See every source and its status
FileSignal coverage across the Greater Toronto AreaBurlington: planned. Oakville: planned. Mississauga: building. Brampton: building. Vaughan: planned. Richmond Hill: planned. Markham: planned. Toronto: live. Pickering: planned. Ajax: planned. Oshawa: plannedLAKE ONTARIOBurlingtonOakvilleMississaugaBramptonVaughanRichmond HillMarkhamTorontoPickeringAjaxOshawa
Live Building PlannedSchematic, not to scale. Ottawa and British Columbia (OrgBook BC) planned.

Pricing

Priced against a won client, not a row of data.

A bookkeeping client is worth $2,000+ a year. At $99/month, one new client every 18 months pays for Starter.

  • Starter

    One market, one niche

    $99/month

    • 1 municipality
    • 1 category group
    • Weekly email digest
    • CSV export (2,000 rows/mo)
    • Phone numbers where published
    • 90 days of history
    Request access
  • Most popular

    Pro

    The whole GTA, every day

    $249/month

    • All live GTA municipalities
    • All categories
    • Daily or weekly delivery
    • Unlimited saved filters (up to 25)
    • CRM webhook (GoHighLevel-ready)
    • CSV export (10,000 rows/mo)
    • 12 months of history
    Request access

  • Territory

    Exclusive by niche and region

    $599/month

    • Everything in Pro
    • Exclusive category group × region
    • One reserved seat per territory
    • Early permit-stage signals when available
    • Priority support
    Check availability

Prices in CAD, plus applicable tax. Compare all plans, including API and data licensing.

FAQ

Questions buyers ask first.

Where does the data come from?
From public open-data releases published by municipalities under open licences — today the City of Toronto's Municipal Licensing & Standards business licence dataset, refreshed daily. Every field we deliver carries its source dataset, record id and fetch time.
How do you know a business is genuinely new and not a renewal?
We track every licence number we have ever seen. A licence id that is new to us and was issued inside the look-back window is flagged new. A known licence whose issue or update date moves without a material change is a renewal. Name, address or category changes are flagged separately, and cancellations become closed signals.
Do you include phone numbers?
Only when the public record itself contains one. We never scrape, buy or infer contact details, and we never store Google Maps or Places data.
What about home-based businesses?
Records at residential addresses are suppressed. They never appear on public pages, in exports, the API or webhooks. That includes licence types that are inherently home-based, such as vehicle-for-hire owners and most mobile trades.
Is this legal to use for outreach?
The data is published under open licences that permit reuse with attribution. How you contact businesses is your responsibility: Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) applies to commercial electronic messages. Our acceptable use policy explains the basics.
Which cities do you cover?
Toronto is live. Mississauga and Brampton permit feeds are being built; Markham, Richmond Hill, Vaughan and Ottawa are planned as their open data allows. The coverage page shows the live status of every source.

Reach new businesses before your competitors know they exist.

See a live feed filtered to your category and territory in a 20-minute walkthrough.

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