What construction and architecture firms ask
Under our contracts, the client owns the drawings. Are we excluded?
Not automatically. Field records such as RFIs and daily logs are often the main focus. What your contracts allow is a question for your counsel.
Are subcontractor names kept?
Every owner, sub, supplier and project address becomes a placeholder.
Can we start with one finished project?
Yes. A narrow first scope, such as closed projects from a few years back, is a common way to begin.
Records worth a look
Where the useful history sits
Not every one is required. One well kept system can be enough to begin.
Submittals and RFIs
How field questions get answered between trades, builders and designers.
Change order records
What shifted on a job, what drove it and how it got settled.
Estimates and bids
How scope gets priced and compared across subcontractors.
Site logs and punch lists
What went on at the site and what still needed fixing.
Drawings that belong to building owners
Your drawings and models may belong to the building owner or be limited by contract. That depends on the contracts involved, so ask your own counsel whether they can be included. You can leave owner files out altogether.
How you price work
Your estimates reveal how you price jobs. If you would rather keep that close, leave the estimating folders out. Restricted projects, such as secure facilities, can be left out in the same way.
The same ground rules
An NDA comes before anything else. Nothing goes out until you approve a sample, and there is no cost to you.
Why it counts
What makes it useful to labs
Projects seldom go exactly to plan, and the record of how a team adjusts is just what models are missing. RFIs, change orders and punch lists capture judgment calls made under pressure on time and budget. That kind of history hardly ever appears in public text.
Next steps
What happens from here
Answer four questions for an estimate. Within minutes, a License Your Data specialist calls to set up a 15-minute call. If you go ahead, License Your Data prepares a de-identified copy, you approve a sample, and buyers license that copy.