Free restaurant leads in Seattle, by email

The Free Sheet is a short weekly email with this week's freshest named opening-soon food businesses in the Seattle area, pulled from the public record. Free while the pilot runs. If you sell to new restaurants in Washington, this is the week's list, before the signage goes up.

An honest word on the "limited time" part

This page is a pilot. We are testing whether a weekly free sheet earns its keep, and when the test is done the page retires and the free emails stop. That is the whole scarcity story. There is no countdown clock because there is no fixed deadline; if you can see this page, the pilot is still running and signing up still works.

What each free lead includes

  • Business name — the real name on the filing, spelled out.
  • Neighborhood or city — where in the Seattle area it's landing.
  • The trigger record — which public filing put it on our radar (a King County food-business permit, a WA Liquor & Cannabis Board application, a City of Seattle permit).
  • An honest date — the record's real filed date when it carries one, and when it doesn't, the date we first saw it, labeled as exactly that.

And here is the fence, said out loud: the free sheet carries no phone numbers or contact details. Verified direct lines, delivery within hours of the filing, and a county that's yours alone are the paid product, and we'd rather tell you that plainly than let you find out after typing your email. We sell access to businesses from the public record; we never sell personal data about owners.

What a lead looks like

Below is this week's live sample from the same feed the sheet is built from, names withheld on the page. The email spells the names out.

Free sheet lead · exampleExample
Business name hiddenNamed in the email
Café / Coffee Shop · Capitol Hill, Seattle · King
Two signals confirmedLiquor license filedKitchen build-out permit
Direct line in the paid product, never the free emailFiled this week

Questions you'd be right to ask

Where does the data come from?

Public records, watched continuously: King County food-business permits, Washington Liquor & Cannabis Board license filings, and City of Seattle permits. We resolve the filings into named businesses and score how close each one is to opening. Every lead is backed by a filing you could look up yourself.

Why free? What's the catch?

It's a pilot; the catch is that it ends. The leads on the free sheet have already left our paying subscribers' exclusive window, so naming them costs our customers nothing, and it lets you judge the data with your own eyes before spending a dollar.

When does the pilot end?

When we've learned what we need to learn. There's no fixed date and no fake timer; once it ends, this page retires and the emails stop, and we'll tell subscribers before that happens.

What does paid add over the free sheet?

The verified direct business line (a human dials it first), delivery within hours of the filing instead of weekly, and territory exclusivity: one rep per county, per vertical. See plans and pricing.

Selling into new restaurants across Washington, beyond Seattle? Browse new-business activity by city, or claim a territory while it's unsold.