Updated October 2026
Selling roofing company data for AI training: what it's worth and who buys it
Roofers score 23 out of 100 on O*NET's email scale while construction trade supervisors score 89, so a roofing company's record is written by its sales, estimating and production office.1
A residential roofing job starts with a ladder and a camera. The inspector walks the roof, photographs the hail hits and lifted shingles, and writes up the damage. If there is a claim, the office builds an estimate, meets the adjuster, and then argues line items through supplements until the scope matches what the roof actually needs. Production schedules the crew around weather, orders material, and closes the job with completion photos and a final invoice.
Almost all of that writing happens off the roof. Roofers score 23 on O*NET's email scale, among the lowest of any trade, while the supervisors who run production score 89. A roofing company's data is therefore its CRM history, its photo-annotated inspections and its claim files, usually in a roofing CRM such as AccuLynx or JobNimbus, plus the estimating platform and email.
This page is for owners of residential and commercial roofing companies with ten or more employees. It lays out what a roofing archive holds, which buyers fit, why insurance claim files need a separate conversation, and what to ask before any homeowner photo or adjuster email leaves the company.
Worth
What a roofing company's data may be worth
Set for a typical roofing company, 30 staff and 8 years of records. Move the sliders to match yours. Our estimate, not an offer.
Buyers
Which buyers want this data
Buyers whose own published rules fit roofing contractors. We can introduce you to the ones we work with.
Featured partners
Polyshares
Names construction and buys CRM data, design files and accounting exports, with no headcount floor beyond real operating history.10,11,12
- $100K to $2M+, Polyshares says8
- None, Polyshares says13
- An offer in 1 to 2 weeks, then paid in 30 to 60 days14
Watch out for: Exclusive by default, and every deal it lists is exclusive with no end date.15,16
Pewter
Takes US firms with 20+ full-time staff and 3+ years of records, a floor an established roofer with its own crews may clear.5
Watch out for: Its site was registered in October 2026 and names no people.22,23
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.
Who wants this
Do buyers want roofing contractors?
No buyer publishes prices by industry, but their own intake forms show which industries they rate higher.
- Troveo puts construction and trades in its second of four demand tiers: "Your industry carries above-average buyer demand."24
- Polyshares takes roofing and solar, without marking it premium.25
- VMS, a broker, gives construction standard weight when it estimates value.26
Which buyers take a roofing company your size
Shown for 30 staff, a typical roofing company. Ask whether contractors and part-time staff count.
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Polyshares
No headcount rule; the length and texture of the record matter more29
Mode
20+ full-time US office staff (accounting firms 10+, law firms 6+)30
Pewter
20+ staff and 3+ years; by industry, from 10+ (healthcare) to 50+ (manufacturing, finance)31,32,33
Grepped
No headcount minimum stated34
Ventra
30+ US employees and 3+ years of records35
Mercor
None stated36
Troveo
No minimum stated; its estimator starts at 2037
Nyne
20+ US W-2 employees and 3+ years4
Endless
Roughly 30+ employees38
Supersoniq
50+ employees and 5+ years39
What buyers value
What in a roofing company's records buyers value
What buyers look for in your records, and what to talk through with your buyer before anything leaves your systems.
| Data | Where it lives | Why a buyer values it | Raise with the buyer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspection reports with annotated photos | Roofing CRM (AccuLynx, JobNimbus), photo apps | A visual finding written up as a damage assessment, the skill a claims or estimating model has to learn. | Photos showing house numbers, faces or the inside of homes. |
| Insurance claim files and supplements | Estimating platform, email with adjusters | Line-by-line negotiation of scope with a carrier, with the starting and final numbers on record. | Claim numbers, policy details and carrier correspondence. |
| Retail estimates and proposals | Roofing CRM, proposal software | Cash jobs priced by material, pitch and tear-off layers, and which proposals closed. | Nothing specific |
| Production schedules and crew notes | CRM production board, calendars | Weather delays, material drops and crew assignments: how a roofer keeps a season on track. | Crew members' and subcontract crews' personal details. |
| Canvassing and lead records | CRM, door-knocking apps | How leads are generated after a storm and how many turn into inspections and signed jobs. | Homeowner contact details from canvassing. |
A week of records
A week of data at a roofing company
- Monday: forty inspection requests after a hail event, each with a storm date and address logged.
- Tuesday: inspectors upload 600 annotated photos and write up which roofs show claimable damage.
- Wednesday: two adjuster meetings, then supplements sent for missed drip edge and ice and water shield.
- Thursday: rain pushes three tear-offs, and production rebuilds the week with new material drop dates.
- Friday: completion photos and final invoices on four jobs, and one warranty leak call logged.
Process
How it works with each buyer
In each buyer's own words. Where a buyer publishes nothing, we say so.
Polyshares
Selling or closing
Selling or closing your roofing company? License its data first
Roofing owners often ask whether you can sell a roofing company at all, since so much of the value sits in the owner's relationships and the crews. The inspection photos, claim files and CRM history are a different set of records from the relationships and the crews. Pewter accepts operating, winding-down and closed companies while records exist. Ask each licensing company whether a license can close before any later sale, and how it would sit alongside one.2
FAQ
Roofing contractors: questions, answered
Not much. Roofers score 23 on O*NET's email scale, but construction trade supervisors score 89, and the CRM, inspection write-ups and claim files are written by sales and production staff. Those are what a buyer will look at.1
Ask. Polyshares lists design files among what it buys, and in our reading inspection photos with written findings are a strong pairing. Photos are also where house numbers and faces hide, so agree on how they are cleaned before you send them.11
Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.
Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.
Before you sign
Questions to talk through with your buyer
Every business is different, so these are best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over them with you before anything is signed.
Questions for this kind of business
- Which insurer or claim documents are excluded, and who checks the claim files?
- How are faces, house numbers and addresses removed from photos?
- Does assignment of benefits paperwork in our files change what we can include?
- 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?