What FlowLeads actually is
The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation inspects every licensed food service and lodging property in the state. It publishes those results every week for all 67 counties.
We pull that file, keep only the records that match your trade and your territory, and send you the list. Pest findings, refrigeration failures, water and sewage problems, plumbing that was not maintained. Each one is a business an inspector just documented a problem at, and a trade that fixes that problem.
These leads come from public records, not form fills or ad clicks. Nobody on the list has been contacted yet. Outreach is yours.
You are buying the weekly grind: pull the file, filter your area, find who to call. That is hours of work you do not have to do.
How the weekly run works
Your list arrives every Monday. The state publishes on its own schedule during the week. We work around that and deliver on a fixed day, so you can plan your week against it.
- Detect. We watch for the new state file and pick it up the moment it lands, whichever day the state chooses to publish.
- Pull and compare. Each week’s file covers the whole fiscal year, so we compare it to our archive and send only what is new.
- Filter. Your service area, and the categories that match your trade.
- Resolve contacts. License number and business phone, where the state publishes them.
- Send. Your list is in your inbox Monday, while the records are still current.
What sits on every row
Same columns every week. We report what the state recorded and how to find it. Nothing more.
| Column | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Business & address | The name and location address as they appear in the public record, unaltered. Never an officer's or registered agent's address. |
| Violation code | The state's own category number, with its published category language quoted in full. |
| Record date | The date on the record itself, never the date we pulled it. |
| Record status | The state's inspection disposition for that visit, quoted, carrying its own separate date. |
| Counted facts | Times cited in the window, days since inspection, prior citations on record. Math on the state’s dates, not a judgment call. |
| Record ID | The inspection visit identifier, so you can open the record on the state's site yourself. |
| Contact | Business phone, from public records. Missing fields are marked. Never left blank. |
See a real sample sheet →
See the full schema and how the sheet is ordered →
Why the top of the sheet is the state's judgment, not ours
Rows are grouped into seven bands and delivered in order, so the citations with the most regulatory pressure behind them sit at the top. Every band is defined by something the state published.
Emergency closure
Present in the weekly emergency closure extract with a closure condition relevant to your trade. Doors shut, revenue lost daily.
Open enforcement, not complied
The state's latest disposition says the problem was not fixed. The strongest row on any sheet.
Open enforcement, clock running
An extension was granted and is pending. An open problem with a deadline the owner already knows about.
Repeat across sequences
Cited under the same category in two or more separate inspection sequences. Recurrence as a counted fact.
Multiple findings, one sequence
More than one finding recorded on the visit, or the citation appearing on more than one visit.
Direct hit, cleaner class
A single citation in whichever inspection class carries the purer signal for your trade. For pest control that is the lodging class.
Direct hit, baseline
A single citation in the broader class, most recent first. The baseline row on any sheet.
Bands 1 through 5 work the same for every trade. Only the last two change by trade, because which inspection class is cleaner differs.
No score column. No severity rating. No priority colors. FlowLeads does not rate or rank these businesses. If a prospect asks why they were near the top of your list, you can quote a dated sentence the state wrote. You never have to explain an algorithm.
What FlowLeads does not do
- We do not contact the businesses on your list. No calls, emails, or texts. The software that sends your spreadsheet cannot reach a business address.
- We do not book, confirm, or attend anything. No appointments in this product. No per-appointment fee.
- We do not represent you to any prospect. Outreach is yours, in your name.
- We do not score, grade, or rank the businesses. Order comes from the state’s outcomes and from how complete the record is, and that is shown on the sheet.
- We do not guarantee volume. Weekly counts depend on what the state publishes. No minimum.
A citation tells you the category was cited. It does not tell you which finding inside that category the inspector made. The food pest category, for example, covers insects, live animals, and unsealed openings under one number. The detail that would separate them is not published at any price. Treat a row as a reason to ask, not a finding to assert. How we handle that, and the rest of the record rules →
Who this is built for
- Pest control, refrigeration and HVAC, and emergency plumbing. See what we cover.
- Commercial work: food service and lodging.
- Teams that actually call or email outbound. The sheet is raw material. If you do not run outbound, you will not use this.
- A flat monthly fee, not a charge per appointment.
- Regional and independent operators, where one more commercial account still matters.