Week-one San Antonio irrigation permits: a West Side sprinkler tech's route

Marisol runs a two-truck sprinkler maintenance crew on San Antonio's far West Side. Her best customers are families in brand-new homes, and she needs to reach them the week their irrigation system is permitted, before the first broken head or the first surprise water bill sends them searching online.

Door-knocking whole subdivisions was slow, and bought homeowner lists were months old. A brand-new irrigation permit in the City of San Antonio open data is the trigger she actually wants.

What changed

She bought SatxPermit for $19. After Stripe checkout, the CSVs were emailed directly from Armorlight: 7-day and 30-day San Antonio building-permit files with permit number, permit type, work type, project name, address, primary contact, council district and issue date. The city source has no phone field, so there are no phone numbers.

That week

• Mon: filtered the 7-day file (1,432 permits issued Sep 28 to Oct 2) to Plumbing Irrigation Permit: 120 rows, 105 of them standalone irrigation jobs.
• Tue: sorted by ZIP. The new-build edge of the West Side lit up: 18 in 78245, 13 in 78253, 12 in 78254 and 11 in 78252, with whole runs of new systems on single streets like Bobby Bend and Aurora Basin.
• Wed: no phones in the source, so she routed one truck street by street and left door hangers offering a first-season controller setup and a spring and fall checkup plan.
• Thu: flagged the handful of commercial irrigation permits (new buildings and site work) for a separate bid on grounds maintenance.

The 30-day file, with 5,783 permits, became her backlog for slower weeks.

Illustrative scenario: Marisol is a composite operator, not a named customer. The permit counts, ZIP codes and street names come from a real SatxPermit 7-day file generated Oct 5, 2026.

Armorlight Enterprises, LLC is not affiliated with the City of San Antonio.