For commercial kitchen-exhaust cleaning companies

New restaurant licenses in your territory, researched for your sales team

Opening Ledger watches city license and inspection records in your service area and sends your sales team a brief on each one that checks out, with the address, operator, dates and a public contact route.

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Four-week pilot for $399 in one territory. It does not renew unless you choose the monthly plan.

Opening LedgerBrief · dated example

Chicago / R1Dated example

New license signal

Yor Yak Sushi & Thai

2431 N Western Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647

Chicago recorded an initial Retail Food Establishment license for YOR-YAK on September 2, 2026. The restaurant’s own site and ordering page identify Yor Yak Sushi & Thai at the same street address. This is a dated license signal; the exact opening date is not established.

Source record date2026-09-02

Known operatorTHONGLOR INC. (city license holder)

Verified2026-09-09

What remains unknown

The exact opening date is unknown. The license holder is established; the person responsible for service purchasing is not. Exhaust equipment, cleaning needs, incumbent supplier and purchasing intent are unknown.

Primary source

City of Chicago · Business Licenses ↗

A real public record, researched September 9, 2026. A license signal does not establish an opening date or buying intent.

A dated eventThe license or inspection record, with its source date and the day we verified it.

The operatorThe license holder or business behind the filing, as far as the record establishes.

A public contact routeThe business’s own published phone number, website or ordering page.

The unknownsWhat the record does not establish, so your team knows what is still unverified before calling.

By the time a new restaurant is on the review sites, it may already have a hood cleaner

The license record is public as soon as the city issues it. In the brief above, Chicago issued the license on September 2 and the brief was verified on September 9. The brief says what the record establishes and what it does not, so your team can decide whether an introduction is worth making now.

Finding new kitchens by hand

Driving past construction paper on a storefront window and hoping it is a kitchen.
A tip from a supplier or a friend in the trade, weeks after the fact.
Review sites and social posts, which appear after opening night.
Generic restaurant lists that mix new openings with diners that opened twenty years ago.

With Opening Ledger

City license and inspection records checked for your territory, with a summary every week.
Each candidate researched: operator, address, first-party website, contact route.
A brief with dates and sources, so you know exactly how fresh the signal is.
Unknowns stated up front, and a candidate that does not fit is reported as not a fit.

Research you can check, delivered to your sales team

City records identify the candidates. We do the matching and contact research, and every brief keeps its sources visible.

Tell us where and what you serve

Your city, the kinds of kitchens you want to hear about, and any current customers to exclude. You do not need to connect any software or upload any files.

We research each new filing

Candidates come from city license and inspection records. We match the business, find its public contact route and record every source with the date we observed it.

Your team decides who to call

Briefs arrive with a short factual introduction you can adapt. Whether and how to reach out stays entirely with your company.

Coverage today: Chicago and New York City

Research uses each city’s own records and stays inside its boundaries; suburbs are not covered yet. Paid coverage opens once a territory’s sources pass our freshness checks.

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CHI
Chicago, city limitsCity of Chicago · business license records
Being validated
NYC
New York City, all five boroughsNYC DOHMH · pre-permit inspection signals
Being validated

Start with a pilot in one territory

Only candidates that check out become briefs, and quiet weeks are reported as quiet weeks.

Four-week pilotOne-time purchase

$399one time

Twenty-eight days of research in one supported territory, so you can judge the briefs against your own sales criteria.

One supported territory
Up to 10 candidate-event reviews
Weekly summaries and every qualifying brief
Ends after 28 days without renewing

Check pilot availability Availability depends on the territory’s source checks.

Monthly subscription

$799per month

Continuous coverage for a team that wants a steady flow of researched introductions.

Up to two supported territories
20 candidate reviews per month
Weekly summaries and every qualifying brief
Cancel any time in the billing portal

Check monthly availability A separate, explicit checkout; the pilot never converts on its own.

Confirmed duplicates return their review credit, and corrections do not use another one. Unused reviews expire at the end of the term; there are no automatic overages. Territories are not exclusive, but your exclusions, notes and outcomes stay private.

Before you subscribe

The questions owners and sales managers ask before a pilot.

Does the pilot renew automatically?

No. The $399 pilot ends after four weeks. The $799 monthly subscription requires a separate, explicit checkout.

How many opportunities will I receive?

There is no guaranteed number. A candidate may be stale, irrelevant or insufficiently supported. We deliver qualifying briefs and report what was actually reviewed, including quiet weeks and coverage interruptions.

Are territories exclusive?

No. Permitted public research may be relevant to multiple subscribers. Your exclusions, notes and outcomes remain private.

Which areas do you cover?

Initial source coverage is Chicago city limits and all five NYC boroughs. It excludes the surrounding metro areas. Purchase availability depends on source and quality checks.

Will you contact restaurants for us?

No. You receive a sourced brief and a suggested factual introduction. Your company decides whether and how to contact the business.

What happens if a fact changes?

We preserve the earlier brief and issue a linked correction to affected customers. A correction does not consume another review credit.

Start with four weeks in your city

One territory, up to ten researched candidates, and every brief sourced and dated so your team can decide who to call.

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