Sell your construction company's records to AI

Mercor Data pays for completed projects with their closeout

Mercor Data’s construction listing covers general contractors, specialty subcontractors, architecture and engineering firms, inspectors and property managers with 50 to 2,000 employees, based anywhere. It wants the records of completed projects with full closeout: drawings and specs, RFIs, submittals, change orders and daily logs, with site photos, video or drone surveys tied to the same projects. BIM and Revit models, schedules and estimates, inspection reports, punch lists and correction letters add to what the company earns.

Mercor’s range for a construction company is $115K to $1M, depending on project count and imagery. It names Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, AutoCAD, Bluebeam, Primavera P6 and DroneDeploy as the systems it expects to find the records in. Marketing photos on their own, and small crews without project documentation, are listed as not a fit.

Hardware companies license the CAD vault

A second listing covers hardware engineering companies of 20 to 2,000 people: automotive suppliers, aerospace, robotics, industrial equipment, product design consultancies, EV and drone makers. Mercor wants full multi-part assemblies in native CAD with their feature trees, circuit board designs, drawings and the test results that go with them, across several product generations. Single parts, parts catalogs and designs owned by your customers are out.

PCB designs and Gerber files, bills of materials, firmware, FEA and CFD simulation files and measured test results all add to the amount. Mercor’s range here is $45K to $1.35M, depending on assembly count and completeness. It names SolidWorks PDM, PTC Creo, Siemens NX, Autodesk Fusion, Onshape, Altium, KiCad and ANSYS. The CAD page covers how to get drawings out of BIM 360 and Vault with their revisions.

Telegraph paid an engineering firm $450K

Telegraph names construction and property among the industries it targets and shows a $450K deal with a 70-person engineering firm for “CAD drawings, calculations, technical reports, revisions, and project specifications.” That is Telegraph’s example, not a price for your firm. Telegraph takes company drives including CAD files, and its company data estimator runs from headcount and years in business.

Handshake AI names hardware and engineering among its industries, asks for 20 or more full-time employees and 3 or more years, and lists AutoCAD among the tools it takes records from. Scale lists field services, naming HVAC, plumbing and electrical, next to manufacturing and robotics, and prefers 40 or more employees.

Owner contracts decide what you can license

Project records belong partly to the owner who paid for the building. Mercor’s scoping questions ask whether any owner contracts restrict project data, and its hardware listing rules out designs your customers own. Read the contract for each project before you count it, and leave out stamped sheets and secure sites the contract protects. The rights checklist lists the clauses to look for.

What they’ll ask you

For a builder: how many completed projects you hold records for, which system holds them, whether you have site photos or drone surveys by project, and whether any owner contracts restrict the data. For a hardware company: which CAD system and roughly how many assemblies, whether you or your customers own the designs, whether you keep simulation or test results, and which industries your products serve.

Crews can also get paid to film the work

Records are one asset. A US construction or trades company whose crews work with their hands can also be paid for phone video of their usual jobs. The footage guide explains who pays, what gets filmed and how the crew agrees first.