- Project
- Harbor View Clinic
- Site
- 2210 Marsh Rd, Tacoma
- Asked by
- J. Ortega, superintendent
- Question
- Beam at grid C-4 clashes with the main duct run. Drop the duct 6 in?
- Answer
- Architect, 3 days: reroute per sketch SK-12
- Change order
- CO-27: +$18,400, +4 days, signed by R. Lindqvist
For general contractors and specialty subs
Sell Construction Data
AI training-data buyers now license the records a closed project leaves behind: RFIs, change orders, schedules, daily logs and estimates. Client and site details come out first, and you pick who gets a license.
- 1Project file
- 2Redacted
- 3Licensed
- 4Paid
- Project
- Owner-01, healthcare
- Site
- WA, two-story clinic
- Asked by
- Superintendent
- Question
- Beam at grid C-4 clashes with the main duct run. Drop the duct 6 in?
- Answer
- Design team, 3 days: reroute per sketch SK-12
- Change order
- CO-27: +$18,400, +4 days, signed by Owner-01
Licensed to the buyer you pick
- micro1
- Labelbox Prism
- Nyne
- Scale AI
Paid under the license
$50K+
Labelbox Prism’s published start for a small, targeted set: a fee at signing, then a revenue share.
Invented example. Project, people, address and amounts are made up.
What counts
A closed project file already holds what buyers want
Questions asked and answered, scope changing, plans slipping and recovering. It usually sits across Procore, Buildertrend, Autodesk Construction Cloud, an accounting system and shared drives.
No buyer names construction yet. Each record sits under a category a buyer does list, in its own words.
RFIs
A field question, the design answer and how long it took
Change orders
Scope change, cost and time impact, the approval chain
Schedules
Sequence, durations and the reasons for each revision
Daily logs
Crew counts, weather, work in place, delays
Estimates and bids
Quantities, unit costs, assumptions, win or loss
Submittals
Review cycles, rejection reasons, resubmissions
Ownership
Rights can change from one record to the next
Licensing rights follow authorship and the contract. On one job your estimates may be plainly yours while the RFI answers belong partly to the designer. Check the prime contract and every subcontract.
Usually yours
- Estimates, bids, cost data
- Daily logs
- Internal schedules
Read the contract
- RFIs and responses
- Change orders
Leave out
- Drawings and specifications
- A sub’s own records on your job
Sell only records you own or may sublicense. Get independent legal review before signing anything.
Buyers
Four buyers print terms a contractor could meet
Three are training-data companies and one is a licensing marketplace. Their published ranges are the top of the market, not a price for your records.
Training-data company
micro1 Enterprise Data Partnerships
$100K to $3M+ a company, in three tiers
30+ full-time staff
Training-data company
Nyne Company data partnerships
$100K+ as the common partnership size
20+ US W-2 staff, 3+ years
Licensing marketplace
Labelbox Prism
About $50K for a small set, up to $1M+
No general entry rules
Training-data company
Scale AI Data Partnership
$10K to $1M+, labelled illustrative
Prefers 40+, reviews smaller
Paid-referral notice: a listed buyer may pay this site if one of our introductions ends in a signed license. Cards run by published pay floor, and fees play no part in their order or wording.
What comes out before a file leaves
Buyers de-identify too, but your own pass decides what leaves the building. The field-by-field guide.
Owner-01
Customer names
Cover sheets, RFI headers, change orders and email signatures all carry them. Swap each for a role token.
WA · clinic
Site addresses
Title blocks, permits, log headers and photo metadata. Keep state and building type at most.
removed
Payment details
Bank, card and account numbers on pay apps, lien waivers and invoices go entirely.
Drywall foreman
Worker names
Daily logs and sign-in sheets keep the trade and role. Certified payroll stays out.
held back
Photos
Left out unless faces, plates and signage are removed first.
Seven steps to a signed license
Contracts come second for a reason: a record you cannot license stalls everything after it. How we work with you.
- 1
Inventory
List each system, the years it covers and the record types in it.
- 2
Contracts
Pull the records, ownership and confidentiality clauses from owner contracts and subcontracts.
- 3
Scope
Choose record types and years, and name the projects to leave out entirely.
- 4
Fit
Hold your headcount, years and country against each buyer’s rules.
- 5
De-identification
Agree who strips personal and client details, where, and whether you see samples first.
- 6
Agreement
Your lawyer reviews scope, exclusivity, permitted use and deletion terms.
- 7
Transfer and payment
Data moves only under the signed agreement; payment follows the buyer’s terms.
Published pay, in the buyers’ own numbers
- $100K to $3M+micro1, per company
- $100K+Nyne, the usual size
- $50K+Labelbox Prism, small sets
- $10K to $1M+Scale AI, illustrative
Each figure is the buyer’s own published range, never an offer. For scale only: Spirit Airlines’ workplace data drew bids of $10 million from Google and $7.5 million from Mercor, per Reuters in August 2026, with a court still to approve any sale. A whole airline is far from a typical contractor deal.
Worked case
Drywall sub in Kansas, 25 on W-2 payroll, trading eight years
- Clears Nyne: 20 staff and 3 years
- Short of micro1’s 30 full-timers
- Under Scale AI’s preferred 40, which reviews smaller firms
- Labelbox Prism sets no general entry rules
Questions from contractors
Can a construction company sell its data to AI companies?
Provided the firm holds the rights, yes. micro1, Scale AI and Nyne each run a licensing program for operational records from established firms. None names construction, yet their categories (operations records, files with metadata, estimates, project records) span most of a GC or sub’s project file.
Which construction records do AI buyers want?
Records that show work and decisions in sequence: RFIs with their answers, change orders with the approval chain, schedules with revisions, daily logs and estimates. A single project file links all of them. See what counts for every record type.
How much is construction project data worth to AI buyers?
No buyer posts a price for construction records. The ranges on their own sites: micro1 $100K to $3M+ a company, Nyne $100K+ as the usual size, Labelbox Prism from about $50K, and Scale AI $10K to $1M+, a band Scale itself labels illustrative. Marketing ranges, not offers: signed license fees often land far lower. The tier estimate shows which ranges fit your headcount.
Do I need the project owner’s permission to sell project records?
Sometimes. Many owner contracts and subcontracts say who owns project documents and what stays confidential. Drawings and specifications usually belong to the design team. Read the records and confidentiality clauses, and get your own lawyer’s review before you sign. See ownership of project records.
Is my construction firm big enough to sell data?
Size floors as posted: Nyne asks for 20 W-2 staff and 3 years trading, micro1 for 30 full-timers, and Scale AI prefers 40 but will look at smaller firms. Count your own full-time staff only; crews from a labor broker are not yours.
Does any data leave my systems before I agree to a deal?
Never via this site, which has no access to company data at all. Among buyers, Scale AI is the one that states the cleaning happens on your own systems, ahead of extraction, with your sign-off on each package. The rest leave the location unstated.
Will client names and site addresses be removed?
Every buyer that describes its process includes de-identification, but do your own pass first so you decide what leaves the building. Swap customer names for role tokens such as Owner-01, strip site addresses down to state and building type at most, and drop payment details entirely. Removing client details, field by field.
Where these facts come from: 5 pages
Get a quote
ZIP code first, then a reply address, then a handful of optional facts about your project records. Our answer names each buyer whose posted entry rules your firm clears, and nothing moves further without your say-so.
Disclosure: introduction service, not a buyer. A buyer that signs a license after our introduction may owe us a referral fee; your company is never charged.
Keep project files, exports and samples out of this form. We never take custody of company data or open it.
Got it. Here is what follows.
- Your headcount, country, records and ownership answer get compared with every posted buyer rule we track.
- A reply follows by email: buyer names that fit, each with its posted terms, or a plain note that none fits yet.
- Your details stay with us unless you approve one named buyer; only that buyer then hears from us.