A general contractor's Procore account is a complete written history of how buildings actually get built. RFIs record what the drawings did not answer and how the architect replied. Submittals show what was proposed, rejected and resubmitted. Daily logs capture weather, manpower and what went wrong on site, meeting minutes record who agreed to what, and change orders tie the paperwork to money. Over a decade of projects that is one of the richest operating records any trade business keeps.
Buyers and the platform both know it. Polyshares names construction among its industries, Clova Data names Procore in Meta ads aimed at contractors, and ENR reported in June 2026 that construction platforms are fighting over who gets to train AI on project data.
This page covers what in Procore holds written work, how Project Archive and the per-tool exports get it out, the lines in Procore's subscription agreement and API terms on ownership, automated access, termination and AI, quoted with their dates, and what a contractor should put to a buyer before any export runs.
Worth
What a contractor's data may be worth
Pre-set for a typical contractor: 60 staff and 10 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 Procore contractors work.
Featured partners
micro1
Asks for project management workflows, task histories and SOPs; an RFI or submittal log is a project workflow written down step by step.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, the three places a GC's project record lives.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 Procore contractors
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 contractor was paid. The category shown is the one a contractor 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 60 staff, the typical contractor 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 contractor'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RFIs and responses | Procore RFIs (CSV or PDF export, Project Archive) | A precise question about a building, the design team's written answer, and what changed as a result. | Architect and engineer names, and owner project details. |
| Submittals and review comments | Procore Submittals | Proposed products and methods with reviewer comments and resubmissions, judgment in both directions. | Supplier pricing attached to submittals. |
| Daily logs | Procore Daily Log | A dated summary for every day on site: weather, crews, deliveries, delays and incidents. | Worker names and injury details in incident entries. |
| Meeting minutes | Procore Meetings | Owner-architect-contractor decisions with action items and who owns them. | Nothing specific |
| Change orders and change events | Procore Change Orders and Change Events | The written reason for every change in scope, tied to cost and schedule outcomes. | Contract values and owner financial terms. |
| Correspondence and project email | Procore Correspondence and Emails tools | Formal letters and notices between parties, the record of how disputes start and end. | Third-party letters from owners, subs and lenders. |
A week of records
A week of data at a contractor
- Monday: the superintendent's daily log notes rain, two crews short and a late rebar delivery.
- Tuesday: a project engineer opens three RFIs on a ceiling conflict, with marked-up sketches attached.
- Wednesday: the architect returns a submittal for a curtain wall anchor as revise and resubmit, with comments.
- Thursday: the OAC meeting minutes record a decision to resequence the slab pour, and a change event opens.
- Friday: punch items from a floor walk go out to three subs, and the week's correspondence is filed.
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 contractor? License its data first
Project history outlives the subscription only if someone exports it. Procore's subscription agreement gives 30 days of read-only access to retrieve Customer Data after termination, after which Procore may delete it. Run Project Archive for each project well before any subscription changes.3,4
FAQ
Procore data: questions, answered
Procore's Project Archive compiles data from multiple tools into a .zip, mostly as PDFs, with documents and photos kept in their original format. Users need Read Only permission or higher on each tool they export, and each archive can be downloaded for 30 days.4
Yes. Procore's RFI tool exports the whole RFI list for a project, or a single RFI, as CSV or PDF. Spreadsheet exports suit a buyer that wants structured rows; the archive's PDFs suit one that wants the full documents.4
Procore's Online Subscription Agreement, effective 2023-03-13, says Customer Data and the customer's confidential information are and will remain owned exclusively by the customer or its authorized users, as applicable. It also grants Procore a license to use Customer Data to provide and improve the services.41
Section 5.4 of Procore's API Terms, effective 2025-09-30, says developers who commercially distribute an app may not use API Data to train, fine-tune or benchmark any AI or machine learning system, and may not bulk export API Data without a separate agreement with Procore. We quote; we do not interpret.42
ENR reported on 2025-10-31 that Trunk Tools' API access was denied in September as Procore introduced a new Developer Policy. Procore said the changes protect the integrity and security of customers' data, and ENR reported that marketplace partners cannot bulk download data for commercial purposes.1
Polyshares names construction among its industries. Clova Data names Procore and Buildertrend in Meta ads to contractors with 20+ office staff and 4+ years, and Return My Time's ads name construction, though its site does not. micro1 and Nyne ask for project workflows and scheduling data without naming the industry.13,43,44,45,10,20
No buyer publishes a Procore price. Published ranges mostly run $100K to $2M, as the buyers' own claims: micro1 states $100K-$2M+ per data package, Cognor Labs and Ventra $100K-$2M, and monsterdata.ai $50K-$1M for a one-time sale. Closed projects where RFIs, change orders and cost outcomes link up are what buyers describe valuing most.7,46,47,48
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
- Will you take Project Archive files and tool exports we run ourselves, and how does your method sit with Procore's terms on automated access?
- How are owner, architect, subcontractor and worker names removed from RFIs, logs and correspondence?
- Will government or secure-facility projects be excluded?
- Who owns this data: the company, an estate, or someone else?
- 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?