Ryan Buckley
Co-Founder & CEO at Shovels
A technology founder, data strategist, entrepreneur, and educator, Ryan Buckley brings deep expertise in public records, building permit data, contractor intelligence, business strategy, entrepreneurship, and built world technology.
With a career rooted in government, environment, technology, and data, he is building Shovels to collect, clean, enrich, and unify fragmented local public data across the United States, starting with building permits.
His work connects municipal records, contractor data, property information, AI-driven enrichment, APIs, web applications, and data warehouses, helping sales, marketing, research, and investment teams turn messy public information into actionable built world intelligence.
Ryan specializes in transforming building permits into the first signal for understanding growth, construction activity, market movement, and built environment change.
As Co-Founder and CEO of Shovels, Ryan leads a platform designed to serve as the intelligence layer for the built world by standardizing permit, contractor, and property data from thousands of municipalities.
His background as a parallel entrepreneur, MIT Sloan MBA, Harvard Kennedy School graduate, UC Berkeley alumnus, and business and entrepreneurship professor gives him a sharp perspective on how technology, public systems, markets, and education intersect.
He understands that everything built starts with a permit, and that the future of smarter construction, property strategy, market research, and urban decision-making depends on making scattered public records clearer, cleaner, and more usable.
Ryan’s work reflects a deep passion for entrepreneurship, civic data, technology, public information, and the built environment. He continually brings curiosity, analytical rigor, strategic vision, and practical intelligence to the conversations shaping the future of how the built world is understood.
Ryan Buckley Joins DATM 2026 As A Built World Data and Permit Intelligence Voice Empowering Industry Leaders Through Actionable Public Records.
By connecting building permits, contractor data, property intelligence, and AI-powered standardization, Ryan helps the built world anticipate growth, understand market movement, and make smarter decisions from the first signal of construction.
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