EarlyFloor — Terms, Privacy & Refunds

EFFECTIVE 2026-07-11 · LAST REVISED 2026-08-22

Status first: no subscription has ever been sold and no payment has ever been taken. On 2026-08-21 the owner decided not to launch EarlyFloor as a paid product: the site stays live as a free showcase, there is no price, no checkout and no subscription, and there is nothing on this site that can charge you. The commercial terms in section 5 are kept, marked as dormant, so that they are already written and already published if that decision is ever reversed — nobody should be asked to agree to terms drafted after they paid.

What is in the file about other people. EarlyFloor republishes building permit records that Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami publish themselves. The delivered file includes the filing contractor's business telephone number where the authority publishes one: that number is the product, it is a business contact on a public licensed-contractor record, and it is stated here rather than buried. The file does not include the owner of record, whose name on a residential permit is usually a private individual at their own home. Anyone named in a row may ask to be removed — see section 4 — and removals are applied to the published files themselves, not only to the counts shown on this site.

1. Who you are contracting with

EarlyFloor is a product of EarlyDocket, operated by Sam Arora. Contact: hello@earlyfloor.com. The EarlyDocket Terms of Service, Privacy & Refund Policy apply in full to EarlyFloor subscriptions, with "EarlyFloor" read in place of "EarlyDocket". The sections below are the EarlyFloor-specific reading of them and are meant to be sufficient on their own.

2. What the feed is

EarlyFloor compiles records that Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami publish as open public data, filters them, and republishes the filtered set with the county's own permit ID on every row so that any claim can be checked at source. It is a market signal, not a verified list of people who want to buy flooring, and not a consumer call list.

Occupancy labels, trade guesses and "interior remodel" classification are our inferences from free text. The methodology page states the rules and where they are known to be wrong.
We do not warrant that any permit is still open, that the work is unlet, or that any phone number is current. The county publishes what it publishes.
Counts shown on the site are measured from the most recent generated run and are not a promise of future volume.

3. Your outreach is your responsibility

Contacting anyone whose details appear in the feed — by phone, SMS, email or mail — is regulated conduct. Compliance with the TCPA, CAN-SPAM, Florida's own telephone rules and anything else that binds you is entirely yours. EarlyFloor performs no screening against do-not-call registries and makes no representation that any number is lawful for you to dial.

Two Florida statutes are worth naming rather than gesturing at, because these are Florida numbers sold to Florida contractors. Fla. Stat. §501.059 (the Florida Telephone Solicitation Act) governs telephonic sales calls: calls placed with an automated system for selecting or dialling numbers, or playing a recorded message, need the called party's prior express written consent, and the person called has a private right of action for actual damages or $500, whichever is greater, trebled for a willful or knowing violation. Fla. Stat. §§501.601-.626 (the Florida Telemarketing Act) is the separate registration and bonding regime for commercial telephone sellers. Hand-dialling one contractor about a permit he filed is a different act from loading a file into a dialler or an SMS blaster, and only you know which one you are about to do. If you are unsure, take advice before you call. Nothing here is legal advice.

4. Privacy — what we hold about you

If you use the form on the home page we store what you type — email address, the metro you chose, your answers to the interest questions — plus the timestamp and the network address the request came from, truncated (the last part of the address is discarded before it is written, so it identifies a network, not you). It is used to contact you about EarlyFloor and for nothing else. Submitting the form sends you one confirmation email.
How long we keep it. Your record is kept for as long as the list exists, and is deleted when you unsubscribe or ask us to — there is no fixed expiry date, and we would rather say so than publish a retention period nothing enforces. The short-lived counters that stop the form being flooded are deleted automatically within minutes and are never linked to what you typed. If EarlyFloor is discontinued, the list is deleted.
We do not sell, rent or share subscriber data.
The site loads Google Analytics 4 and Google Fonts, so those services see your request in the normal way a web page causes them to.
Ask us to delete your record at hello@earlyfloor.com and we will, and will confirm it.

Note the asymmetry, since it matters: the third parties named inside the feed — contractors and property owners — did not opt in to anything. Their details are in the feed because a government body published them as public record, and the feed carries the source and permit ID for every one so the original record can always be consulted.

If you are in a row and want out. Email hello@earlyfloor.com with the permit ID, the phone number or the company name exactly as it appears. It is added to a suppression list the generator reads on every run, before any count is computed, so the row stops appearing on the sample page, on the weekly archive pages and in the generated files, and it does not come back on the next run. You do not have to explain why and you do not have to be the subject of the row to ask about your own details.

What this cannot do, said plainly: we can only remove what we republish. The permit itself stays on Miami-Dade County's and the City of Miami's own public records, which we do not control, and anyone can pull it from the county directly. We also cannot recall a file already downloaded by a subscriber.

5. Money, cancellation and refunds — DORMANT

This section applies to nothing today. On 2026-08-21 the owner decided not to launch EarlyFloor as a paid product. There is no price, no checkout and no subscription; nothing on this site can take a payment, and nothing ever has. The terms below are kept, unenforced, so that they are already public if that decision is ever reversed. Until then, read them as describing a product that does not exist.

There is no published price. Any future paid feed would be charged through Gumroad, not by this site, and this site would still never receive a card number. The Gumroad product has never been created, so no licence key can exist; the download endpoint refuses every licence key it is given, with an explicit "nothing has been charged".
Cancel any time; cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period and is not pro-rated.
First month, full refund, no argument if the feed did not deliver what this site describes. Email hello@earlyfloor.com.
No exclusivity is offered or possible. The underlying records are public and anyone, including your competitors, may obtain them — see how to run the query yourself.

6. Changes to these terms

If these terms change materially, the revision date at the top changes with them and anyone with an active subscription is emailed before the change takes effect. There are no active subscriptions; there never have been.