Years of jobs, estimates and change orders: the record of how real work gets done is what AI labs are short of.

General contractors, home builders, roofers, HVAC, plumbing, electrical and solar companies, and other field-service businesses: owners, operations managers and the people who run the office and the job board.

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buyers quoted below on what they want from companies like yours

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kinds of record below that the valuation measures or values

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rights questions to settle before a buyer sees a record

What companies like yours hold

What you typically have, where it sits, and whether the valuation can measure or value it. Buyers price what exists together, over how many years, and how well it links.

  • Jobs, dispatch and service history
    Where it sits, and what the evidence shows
    ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Jobber or FieldEdge: the call, the booked job, the technician's notes and photos, the invoice and the payment, for every job over the years.
    How the valuation reads it
    Measured from your tickets exportCounted with tickets and projects
  • Estimates and bids, won and lost
    Where it sits, and what the evidence shows
    Quotes and proposals in the same systems or in AccuLynx and JobNimbus, with their stage history and the reason a lead was lost.
    How the valuation reads it
    Measured from your customer records exportCounted with customer records
  • Project records of commercial work
    Where it sits, and what the evidence shows
    Procore: RFIs with their answers, submittals with review decisions, daily logs, observations and punch lists tied to the drawings.
    How the valuation reads it
    Measured from your documents exportCounted with documents and knowledge
  • Residential project records
    Where it sits, and what the evidence shows
    Buildertrend or similar: schedules, change orders, selections, budgets and daily logs, planned against what actually happened.
    How the valuation reads it
    Measured from your documents exportCounted with documents and knowledge
  • Job-site photos
    Where it sits, and what the evidence shows
    CompanyCam or photos attached to jobs: geotagged and time-stamped, before, during and after the work.
    How the valuation reads it
    Describe it in your offer
  • Drawings and models
    Where it sits, and what the evidence shows
    AutoCAD or Revit drawing sets and shop drawings, with their revisions. Whose they are decides whether they can be sold.
    How the valuation reads it
    Measured from your engineering and design files exportCounted with engineering and design files
  • Accounting and job costing
    Where it sits, and what the evidence shows
    QuickBooks, Sage or a construction ERP: estimates against actual cost, invoices, payables and receivables.
    How the valuation reads it
    Measured from your finance records exportCounted with finance records
  • Email with customers, subcontractors and suppliers
    Where it sits, and what the evidence shows
    Years of mail about scope, schedule, materials and problems on the job.
    How the valuation reads it
    Measured from your email exportCounted with conversations

What buyers say they want from companies like you

In their own words, from their own pages or from reporting on what they bought. Each opens its source.

  • “Construction Bids, estimates, RFIs, change orders, site photos and daily logs Home services Service calls, quotes, job notes, technician photos, dispatch”
    HUMXN Research LabsIts own page, 16 Oct 2026
  • “Records that clearly document real problems, procedures, and outcomes are worth the most. Incomplete, duplicated, or low-quality data is declined, and compensation depends on the amount, quality, and usefulness of the information, as well as the rights available to license it.”
    HUMXN Research LabsIts own page, 13 Oct 2026
  • “Industrial, Energy & Logistics Manufacturing & Robotics Energy & Utilities Equipment Rental Freight Brokerage & 3PL Field Services (HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical)”
    Scale AIIts own page, 16 Oct 2026
  • “ServiceTitan links a call, a booked job, the technician's work, the invoice and the payment in one chain. That makes it possible to see which diagnoses led to which repairs and what the customer paid.”
    Polyshares (its guide to ServiceTitan data)Its own page, 16 Oct 2026
  • “Procore projects hold the formal record of commercial construction: RFIs with answers, submittals with review decisions, daily logs, observations and punch lists tied to drawings. These show how problems are raised and resolved on real job sites.”
    Polyshares (its guide to Procore data)Its own page, 16 Oct 2026
  • “Examples of sources we buy AutoCAD Dropbox Figma Gmail Google Drive Outlook Monday.com NetSuite Notion Paychex Quickbooks ServiceTitan Slack +1K more”
    Handshake AIIts own page, 16 Oct 2026
  • “A construction firm's SOPs, an agency's briefs and postmortems, a clinic's operating procedures, a logistics company's dispatch playbooks. These are hard to find anywhere else and they're written by people who do the job.”
    TroveoIts own page, 16 Oct 2026
  • “Home services $450,000 Roofing company Perpetual exclusive license to the operational record. Anonymized before delivery.”
    Polyshares (its track record)Its own account, 16 Oct 2026
  • “Why Data Labeling Startups Are Paying HVAC Companies $150,000 For Data”
    The InformationAs reported, 29 Jul 2026

What raises the value

  • A job a buyer can follow end to end: the call, the estimate, the job, the technician's notes and photos, the invoice and the payment ("which diagnoses led to which repairs and what the customer paid", Polyshares).
  • Estimates marked won or lost, with the reason: "Estimates marked won or lost show which offers customers accepted" (Polyshares, on Housecall Pro).
  • Plans next to what happened: schedules, budgets and change orders beside the daily logs and the final cost.
  • RFIs with their answers and submittals with their review decisions, tied to the drawing they concern.
  • Many years across many technicians and seasons, in a trade with few written records: "material from a trade with few written records is scarce in a way general business correspondence is not" (Polyshares).
  • Photos attached to a job and a note, not loose in a phone.

What lowers it

  • Loose photos with no job, date or note behind them.
  • Customer lists and price books on their own, without the jobs that used them.
  • Drawings that belong to the architect or the client.
  • Records moved between systems with the history lost.
  • Bid pricing and contract values you are not free to disclose (Procore lets you leave them out of an extract).

A line that quotes a buyer names it. The others are our checklist, drawn from the factors buyers state in general: no buyer publishes how much each one moves a price. How often each factor matters across 156 kinds of data.

The rights to settle first

These stop a sale more often than price does. Each can be settled before any buyer sees a record.

The full rights checklist
  • Drawings you build from usually belong to the architect. Under the standard AIA owner-architect agreement the architect and its consultants "are deemed the authors and owners of their respective Instruments of Service", and the owner's licence covers the project only (AIA). The same form says the owner "shall not assign, delegate, sublicense, pledge or otherwise transfer any license granted herein to another party without the prior written agreement of the Architect." Leave others' drawings out, or get that agreement.
  • A franchise's records may not be yours: ServiceTitan's terms say "your franchisor, and not you, owns all Customer Data" unless your franchise agreement says otherwise, and bar a mass export without the franchisor's consent.
  • Homeowners' names, addresses, phone numbers, faces and house numbers run through jobs, emails and photos ("Photos can show homeowners, faces and house numbers", Polyshares). They are removed before anything leaves, and you decide which projects are included.
  • Insurance claim files belong to the claim: "Homeowner insurance claim details and payment data can be left out of any export your company approves" (Polyshares, on AccuLynx).
  • Your field software may hold its own licence to your data: Buildertrend's terms grant it a perpetual, irrevocable licence to customer data, and Jobber's a licence to user content. That does not stop you licensing your copy, but read the terms before you promise a buyer exclusivity.
  • Export access is not a licence: "Your ability to export a record does not by itself establish permission to license it" (Nyne).

What is already on offer from companies like you

Read this morning from the brokers' and marketplaces' own catalogues. A buyer compares your records with these; settled rights, more years and more linked systems are what set one apart.

Every lot on offer

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lots on offer like yours

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of history in the middle of them

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say the rights are settled

What holders like you ask

We are a 25-person HVAC company. Is that big enough?
Often, yes. Of the 24 buyers on our board that take company records, 5 publish a minimum head count, from 20 to 40 people. The rest publish none, and SuperAnnotate says "Any industry qualifies. What matters is that the records are specific to your field and hard to source anywhere else." Handshake AI asks for 20 or more full-time employees and three years in operation; Nyne 20 full-time US W-2 employees and three years; Scale AI prefers 40 or more and names field services (HVAC, plumbing, electrical) among its industries.
Has anyone actually paid a contractor for its records?
Polyshares lists licences of a roofing company's, a general contractor's and a solar company's operating records on its track record page; it names none of the sellers, so treat them as its own account. The Information reported in July 2026 that micro1 had approached an HVAC company in Michigan, under the headline that data labelling startups are paying HVAC companies for data. HUMXN Research Labs announced on 13 October 2026 a programme to buy records from trades and manufacturing businesses. Every disclosed sale we know of is on the deal ledger.
Can we sell the architect's drawings we built from?
Usually not. Under the standard AIA agreement the architect keeps the copyright in the drawings and specifications, and the owner's licence covers building and maintaining that project only, with no right to sublicense it without the architect's written agreement. Your own shop drawings, estimates, logs and photos are a different matter: those are usually yours.
What happens to our customers' names, addresses and house photos?
They come out before anything leaves your company. Buyers say so themselves: HUMXN removes "customer names, addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information" and reviews footage and photos, and Polyshares lets you choose which projects are included. The valuation reads your exports on your own computer and sends only counts: how many records, over which months, how many people, how many link to another system, how many identifiers it found. No names, subjects or message text leave it. A de-identified sample, if you add one, narrows the range.
Our records live in ServiceTitan, Procore or Buildertrend. Can we even get them out?
In parts. ServiceTitan exports reports and job lists to spreadsheets (and after you leave, it keeps an export window of 60 days); Procore exports one active project at a time with Procore Extracts or the Project Archive tool; Housecall Pro lets admins export customers and jobs, with its API on the MAX plan; Jobber exports clients on some plans; Buildertrend decides the format of an export itself. No vendor offers everything in one step, so start with the exports you can make: the valuation reads them on your own computer.
Why would an AI lab want a contractor's records?
To teach models and robots how physical work is diagnosed, priced and finished. HUMXN: "A plumber diagnosing a leak, an electrician tracing a fault or an HVAC technician troubleshooting a system can generate valuable examples of human perception, decision-making, tool use and physical problem-solving." A job record that runs from the call to the payment shows the whole chain.

In this topic

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  1. Start hereWhich data do AI labs want, and who holds it?Each kind of data the market prices, the businesses that hold it, what labs are asking for now and what they turn away.
  2. GuideWhat Are RL Environments? Who Builds, Buys and Prices ThemAn RL environment is a sandbox where an AI agent attempts tasks with tools and a verifier scores each try. Who builds them, who buys them and what they cost.
  3. GuideHow to Sell Videos to AI Companies: Prices, Buyers and RightsAI companies license video by the hour or minute. What buyers pay, which footage sells, and the rights you need in every frame before you sell a library.
  4. PageWhere data comes fromWho holds each kind of data, how much exists and how it reaches buyers.
  5. RegisterCompanies closingCompanies closing, sold or gone dark, and the records they leave.

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