Custom home builders and remodelers run on Buildertrend from the first estimate to the last walkthrough. The homeowner picks finishes in Selections and comments on each option, the site lead writes a daily log with notes on the work and the weather, change orders go to the client for approval, and messages between the office, the field and the homeowner build up on every job. For a builder with a few hundred completed homes or remodels, that is a detailed written history of residential construction from the client's side as well as the crew's.
Clova Data names Buildertrend, with Procore, in Meta ads to construction firms, and Polyshares names construction among the industries it buys from. What sets Buildertrend apart is how much of the record is conversation with homeowners.
Buildertrend's terms are also unusual. They grant the platform a broad license to Customer Data, describe no customer ownership clause that we found, and keep data accessible for a year after termination. This page sets out what Buildertrend holds, how its export works, the terms quoted with their date, and what to ask a buyer.
Worth
What a builder's data may be worth
Pre-set for a typical builder: 25 staff and 8 years of records. No buyer publishes pricing by industry, so industry does not move the band. Our estimate, not a buyer quote.
Buyers
Which buyers want this data
Each reason is the buyer's own published statement about the tools, data or industries it takes, matched to how Buildertrend builders and remodelers work.
Featured partners
micro1
Asks for project management workflows and templates; a builder's job templates and schedules are its repeatable method.10,11
- $100K to $2M+, micro1 says7
Watch out for: Says it removes personal details only "when relevant", so ask exactly how.12
Polyshares
Names construction among its industries and buys email, design files and ERP records; Buildertrend jobs combine all three with client messages.13,14
- $100K to $2M+, Polyshares says8
- None, Polyshares says15
- An offer in 1 to 2 weeks, then paid in 30 to 60 days16
Watch out for: Exclusive by default, and every deal it lists is exclusive with no end date.17,18
Everyone else we reviewed
By score, with full reviews. We have no referral agreement with these companies, so we do not link out to them.
Buyer demand
How buyers' own tools rate Buildertrend builders and remodelers
No buyer publishes a price list by industry. These are settings inside buyers' and brokers' own estimators and intake forms, read from their public pages on 2026-10-14. They show how each company sorts industries, not what any builder was paid. The category shown is the one a builder would most likely pick; that match is ours.
| Company | Its category | How it rates the industry |
|---|---|---|
| Troveo | Construction and trades | Tier 2 of 4: "Your industry carries above-average buyer demand." Price factor 1.15 in its estimator.24 |
| Polyshares | Construction and specialty trades | Not marked premium (9 of its 45 industries are)25 |
| VMS | Construction | Standard weight in its estimator (factor 1.12)26 |
Size rules buyers publish
Checked against 25 staff, the typical builder size this page's calculator is set to. Ask each buyer whether contractors and part-time staff count.
Polyshares
No headcount rule; the length and texture of the record matter more27
Mercor
None stated28
Troveo
No minimum stated; its estimator starts at 2029
Nyne
20+ US W-2 employees and 3+ years21
Handshake AI
20+ full-time employees and 3+ years30
micro1
Pewter
20+ staff and 3+ years33
Endless
Roughly 30+ employees34
Ventra
30+ US employees and 3+ years of records35
Supersoniq
50+ employees and 5+ years36
What buyers value
What in a builder's records buyers value
The column on the right is not legal advice: it lists what to raise with the buyer before anything is exported.
| Data | Where it lives | Why a buyer values it | Raise with the buyer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily logs with notes | Buildertrend Daily Logs | Site notes on work completed, conditions and issues, day after day across every job. | Homeowner names and addresses on each job. |
| Homeowner messages and comments | Buildertrend Messages, Direct Chat and Comments in the client portal | How a builder explains delays, costs and choices to the people paying for the house. | Personal details homeowners share about their families and finances. |
| Selections and option comments | Buildertrend Selections and Allowances | Choices homeowners made, with the back-and-forth that led to each one. | Nothing specific |
| Change orders | Buildertrend Change Orders | The written case for every scope change and the client's approval or refusal. | Prices and payment terms on each change. |
| To-dos and schedules | Buildertrend To-Do's and Schedule | The sequence of trades and tasks on a residential job, repeated across many homes. | Nothing specific |
| Estimates and bid requests | Buildertrend Estimates and Bids | How a builder prices work and what subcontractors bid back. | Subcontractor pricing and names. |
A week of records
A week of data at a builder
- Monday: the site lead's daily log notes framing complete on the second floor and a late window delivery.
- Tuesday: the homeowner comments on three tile options in Selections and asks about the price difference.
- Wednesday: a change order for an added outlet goes to the client and is approved the same evening.
- Thursday: the office sends a schedule update and a message explaining a two-day inspection delay.
- Friday: to-dos for the drywall crew close out, and bid requests go out for the next job's countertops.
Process
How it works with each buyer
In each buyer's own published words. Where a buyer publishes nothing, we say so rather than guess.
micro1
- Internal docs, SOPs and playbooks, knowledge bases, project management workflows, internal comms, templates, CRM and workflow metadata, task histories10
- 30 to 200 employees32
- $100K-$2M+ per data package; over $1M for unique data7
- PII removed "when relevant"12
- The company keeps ownership of its data and reviews samples before release37
- Not published
Polyshares
Selling or closing
Selling or closing your builder? License its data first
When an owner retires or sells, the job files are part of the estate. Buildertrend's terms say Customer Data may stay accessible for one year after termination, in a format Buildertrend decides and possibly for a fee. Take the exports a licensing company needs while the subscription is active.3
FAQ
Buildertrend data: questions, answered
Buildertrend's help center says you can select Export in the top right corner of any grid that supports it to download an Excel document. We found no help article on a whole-account or bulk export, so ask Buildertrend and the buyer how daily logs and messages would come out.41
Its terms define Customer Data to include messages, attachments, files, tasks, to-dos, daily logs, invoices, purchase history, photographs, videos and plans. Daily logs carry a Notes field for work completed, site conditions and issues, and clients use Direct Chat, Comments or Messages.42
Section 14.3 of the terms, updated 2026-06-24, grants Buildertrend a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to Customer Data, listing uses including to sell, license and sublicense. We found no clause stating who owns Customer Data. We quote; we do not interpret.1
Section 2.3 says customers shall not use scripts, crawlers, robots or other automated processes to copy, scrape or systematically acquire content without Buildertrend's express written consent. Put that clause in front of any buyer who proposes a connector.43
The terms say Customer Data may remain accessible for one year after the subscription ends. Buildertrend decides the format and method, access may carry fees, and after that year it may permanently delete the data.3
Buyers set size bars, not job types. Most buyers want 20 to 30 or more: micro1 and Return My Time look for 30+, while Nyne, Cognor Labs and Goldmined.ai start at about 20. Mercor, Troveo and Jottings AI state no minimum. Clova Data's construction ads ask for 20+ office staff and 4+ years. In 2022 there were 9,081 US remodelers with 10+ employees.31,44,21,45,46,47,29,48,5,4
We do not answer legal questions. Ask the licensing company: their team reviews this with you before anything is signed.
We do not answer legal questions. Ask the licensing company: their team reviews this with you before anything is signed.
Before you sign
Legal questions go to the licensing company
We do not answer legal questions. Ask the licensing company before you sign: their team reviews these with you.
Questions for this kind of business
- How will you get our Buildertrend data out, and does it need Buildertrend's written consent under section 2.3 of its terms?
- Does Buildertrend's own license to our data affect any exclusivity you ask for?
- How are homeowner names, addresses and family details removed from messages and logs?
- How do CCPA, GDPR, UK GDPR and state privacy laws apply, and is de-identified data still personal information?
- Do customer, vendor or platform contracts, NDAs or API terms restrict this?
Questions for any buyer
- Is the license exclusive, and for how long?
- Can you sublicense the data, and to whom?
- Which AI labs will receive it, and will you tell us?
- How long do you keep it, and how is it deleted?
- What is your liability cap, and who indemnifies whom?
- Will the contract ban re-identification of people in the data?
- Who removes personal data, by what method, and do we approve it first?