Best ways to sell construction company data to AI companies
By Gareth HoyleLast updated How we research
In short
The best ways to sell construction company data to AI companies are a vetted broker such as Sell My Data To AI, a license with Mercor, or a fixed-price deal with Polyshares or Endless Data. ddiy.co reported Mercor's listing at $115,000 to $1 million for construction companies, and Polyshares publishes a $300,000 license with a general contractor.
Key takeaways
- Mercor is best for contractors of 50 to 2,000 staff on cloud tools.
- Polyshares is best for owners who want one fixed payment and no fees.
- Endless Data is best for firms that want to keep the right to license elsewhere.
- Sell My Data To AI wrote this list and ranks itself first. The method section explains the criteria.
- Every entry's facts come from the company's own published terms, checked November 2026.
Construction companies hold records of real problems solved in sequence: RFIs and the responses that closed them, change orders, site diaries, defect reports and project programs. AI tools for estimating, scheduling and project control need that material and cannot generate it. Our construction data page lists what buyers ask for.
Two published figures exist for the sector. ddiy.co reported Mercor's referral listing at $115,000 to $1 million for construction companies of 50 to 2,000 employees. Polyshares publishes a $300,000 perpetual exclusive license with a general contractor and $450,000 with a roofing company.
Check who owns the drawings and models first. Section 11 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 makes the author the first owner, so consultants' drawings usually stay theirs unless assigned. Our guide to exclusive and non-exclusive licenses explains what a perpetual exclusive deal gives up.
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Sell My Data To AI
Best for contractors that need drawing rights and subcontract terms checked
Sell My Data To AI values construction project records and brokers licenses with vetted AI buyers. Our eight-point seller vetting checks ownership and chain of title, and identifies third-party content such as consultants' drawings so it is cleared or removed. You pay nothing to be assessed, approve every buyer, sample and license term, and agree the success fee in writing before any introduction. We do not take custody of your raw data.
- Fee to seller
- Nothing to be assessed. A success fee only when a deal completes, agreed in writing before any buyer introduction
- Seller vetting
- Eight-point standard, from authority to sign to manifest accuracy, before any buyer sees your data
- Buyer vetting
- Company identity, intended use, security and retention, onward transfer limits and, for larger deals, ability to pay
- Data custody
- No custody of raw data. Buyers see redacted samples under a mutual NDA
- Your control
- You approve every buyer, sample and license term, and can withdraw at any point before signing
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Mercor
Best for contractors of 50 to 2,000 staff on cloud tools
Mercor pays businesses to license workflow data from more than 100 supported tools and covers extraction, anonymization and transfer costs. ddiy.co reported in October 2026 that Mercor's referral page listed $115,000 to $1 million for construction companies. Mercor says no AI lab buyer sees raw data and typically pays by wire within 2 to 4 weeks of the signed agreement.
- Published payout
- Not published on mercor.com/data. ddiy.co reported Mercor's referral page listing $20,000 to $1.5 million by industry (October 2026)
- Size requirement
- Not published on mercor.com/data. Target industries include legal, healthcare, finance and insurance, professional services, manufacturing, retail, real estate and logistics
- Exclusivity
- Not published
- Fee to seller
- None. Mercor covers extraction, anonymization and transfer costs
- Payment timing
- Wire transfer after delivery, typically within 2 to 4 weeks of the signed agreement
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Polyshares
Best for owners who want one fixed payment and no fees
Polyshares is a direct buyer that licenses a company's operational record and supplies AI labs itself. Its track record page publishes a $300,000 perpetual exclusive license with a general contractor and $450,000 with a roofing company. It sets no headcount minimum, charges no fee or commission, makes an offer within one to two weeks and pays net 30 to 60 days.
- Published payout
- $100,000 to $2 million and above typical. Four published licenses range from $110,000 to $450,000
- Size requirement
- No headcount minimum. Any company with real operating history, in any sector
- Exclusivity
- All four published case studies are perpetual exclusive licenses. Its terms page does not state exclusivity
- Fee to seller
- None. No fee and no commission
- Payment timing
- Offer within one to two weeks. Net 30 to 60 days after data is approved, shared and anonymized
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Endless Data
Best for firms that want to keep the right to license elsewhere
Endless Data licenses the records a company already produces, naming quotes, tickets, work orders, SOPs and handover notes, and places them with several AI labs. It uses a non-exclusive license, advertises up to $4 million as an indicative estimate, asks for roughly 30 or more staff and several years of history, and charges the seller nothing because the labs pay it.
- Published payout
- Up to $4 million (indicative estimate based on headcount, years of history and location)
- Size requirement
- Roughly 30 or more employees, several years of history, English documentation. US, UK and Canada prioritized
- Exclusivity
- Non-exclusive
- Fee to seller
- None. Endless is paid by the labs
- Payment timing
- Fixed sum agreed before data is shared, paid after signing, preparation and transfer. No date published
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micro1
Best for established contractors with 30 or more staff
micro1 licenses operational records such as engineering documentation, finance SOPs, support tickets, CRM records and logistics workflows, and supplies them to AI labs and enterprises in the US and allied countries. Its data partnerships page publishes tiers from $100,000 to more than $3 million, asks for 30 or more full-time staff and mainly English records, and says micro1 removes or transforms personal information before sharing data.
- Published payout
- $100,000 to $500,000 (qualified partnerships), $500,000 to $3 million (large-scale or ongoing), more than $3 million (highly unique data). Agent trajectories listed at $1 million to $2 million a year
- Size requirement
- 30 or more full-time staff, mainly English records, US first, then the UK and Canada
- Exclusivity
- Not published
- Fee to seller
- None stated
- Payment timing
- Homepage says within 30 days of acceptance. FAQ says up to 30 days to review, then payment within 30 days of invoice
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SellMyData
Best for smaller firms with ServiceTitan, Drive and email exports
SellMyData is a broker that de-identifies company data, such as messages, code, documents, records and tasks from Slack, GitHub, Salesforce, QuickBooks and Zendesk, and sells it to AI labs. It sets no minimum headcount, charges nothing upfront, takes a commission when a sale closes, lets sellers approve every buyer and term, and targets payment within 7 days of a sale closing.
- Published payout
- Not published. Price set by data type, volume, years of history and lab demand, and approved by the seller
- Size requirement
- No minimum headcount
- Exclusivity
- Not published
- Fee to seller
- Nothing upfront. Commission when a sale closes (rate not published)
- Payment timing
- Target of 7 days after a sale closes
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Troveo
Best for firms that want income from repeated sales
Troveo is a licensing agent that licenses company data from chat, email, documents, CRM, finance and code platforms to AI buyers on your behalf, sharing revenue on every sale. Its business data page reports more than $20 million paid to licensors and more than 40 active buyers, says full-company deals start at six figures, charges no fees and asks for time-limited exclusivity.
- Published payout
- Typical full-company deals start at six figures. More than $20 million paid to licensors to date (Troveo figure)
- Size requirement
- Not published. Its estimator uses headcount (20 to 1,000 or more) and years trading (under 3 to 15 or more)
- Exclusivity
- Time-limited and has to be earned, with exit terms in the agreement
- Fee to seller
- None. No fees, setup costs or deductions from payouts
- Payment timing
- Revenue share on every sale. Timing set in the agreement, not published
How we ranked this list
Sell My Data To AI wrote this list and ranks itself first. We are a broker with a commercial interest in the result, and some companies below offer a service similar to ours. Read the order with that in mind.
For construction companies we gave extra weight to buyers that publish construction deals or ranges, and to those whose brief names quotes, work orders and project records.
| Criterion | What we checked |
|---|---|
| Fit for the data type | Whether the company names this kind of record in its own published brief |
| Published terms | Whether payouts, size requirements and license terms appear on the company's own pages |
| Vetting | What checks the company says it runs on sellers, buyers or datasets before a sample changes hands |
| Exclusivity | Whether licenses are exclusive, non-exclusive or perpetual, and whether that is published |
| Fees | Whether the seller pays a fee or commission, and whether the rate is published |
| Payment timing | When sellers are paid, as stated by the company |
| Transparency | How much of the above you can confirm before a first call |
Every fact about another company comes from our profile of it in the data buyers directory, checked on that company's own pages in November 2026. Where a term is missing we write "Not published" rather than guess. After first place, the order reflects fit for a company selling or licensing its data, not a quality score, and we do not rate any company negatively.
We rank Sell My Data To AI first because this is our list and our service is built for this reader, not because we scored ourselves against the others. We are independent of the buyers we work with, and our terms are on our fees and how we vet pages so you can compare them line by line.
Frequently asked questions
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Sources
- How to sell your company's data to AI companies, ddiy.co (figures taken from each buyer's own site), accessed November 2026
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 11, legislation.gov.uk, accessed November 2026
- UK GDPR, Article 9: processing of special categories of personal data, legislation.gov.uk, accessed November 2026
- Data monetization, Mercor, accessed November 2026
- Polyshares homepage, Polyshares, accessed November 2026
- Track record, Polyshares, accessed November 2026
- Data licensing terms, Polyshares, accessed November 2026
- Answers, Polyshares, accessed November 2026
- Endless Data homepage and FAQ, Endless Data, accessed November 2026
- Data partnerships, micro1, accessed November 2026
- SellMyData homepage and FAQ, SellMyData, accessed November 2026
- Business data, Troveo, accessed November 2026