Every spring a landscaping office rebuilds its year on paper. Estimators measure turf, beds and mulch yards and turn them into a bid, the maintenance manager slots each property onto a crew's weekly route, enhancement proposals go out for the irrigation fix and the new plantings, and the account manager answers the property manager who says the front entrance looked rough on Thursday. A pool route keeps a tighter record still: water readings, chemicals added, filter pressure and equipment notes at every stop, every week, for years.
Buyers have begun to name this kind of work. Polyshares lists Pools and landscaping on its intake and asks about field operations records in tools like Jobber, Ventra lists home services among the industries it says labs buy from, and Nyne names estimates, jobs, dispatch and calendars. None of the buyers we track has published a landscaping or pool deal yet.
Most of the writing happens in the office, not on the mower. Crews score 39 out of 100 on O*NET's email scale while their supervisors score 78, so in our reading bids, route records and account emails carry the value. Homeowner addresses, gate codes and property photos are what to strip first. Take the quiz to see which buyers take a company your size, seasonal crews and all.
Worth
What a company's data may be worth
Set for a typical company, 45 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 landscaping, lawn care and pool service companies. We can introduce you to the ones we work with.
Featured partners
Polyshares
Lists Pools and landscaping on its intake and asks for work orders, dispatch and job tickets from field tools such as Jobber.1,9
- $100K to $2M+, Polyshares says8
- None, Polyshares says10
- An offer in 1 to 2 weeks, then paid in 30 to 60 days11
Watch out for: Exclusive by default, and every deal it lists is exclusive with no end date.12,13
Pewter
Lists trades and home services as a firm type on its offer form and counts staff at your peak, which helps a seasonal company.17,18
Watch out for: Its site was registered in October 2026 and names no people.21,22
Ventra
Names home services, by our mapping the closest of its industries to this work, among those it says labs buy from, for US companies with 30+ staff and 3+ years of records.23,24
- $100K to $2M as potential deals, Ventra says25
- None today, though it may add fees with notice26
- An offer in 3 to 7 days, then paid on net 30 or 6025
Watch out for: Its terms say delivered data may not be deletable.27
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 landscaping, lawn care and pool service companies?
No buyer publishes prices by industry, but their own intake forms show which industries they rate higher.
- Troveo puts logistics, field service or supply chain (our closest match) in its second of four demand tiers: "Your industry carries above-average buyer demand."28
- Polyshares takes pools and landscaping, without marking it premium.29
Which buyers take a company your size
Shown for 45 staff, a typical 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 more32
Mode
20+ full-time US office staff (accounting firms 10+, law firms 6+)33
Pewter
20+ staff and 3+ years; by industry, from 10+ (healthcare) to 50+ (manufacturing, finance)34,35,36
Grepped
No headcount minimum stated37
Ventra
30+ US employees and 3+ years of records24
Mercor
None stated38
Troveo
No minimum stated; its estimator starts at 2039
Nyne
20+ US W-2 employees and 3+ years40
Endless
Roughly 30+ employees41
Supersoniq
50+ employees and 5+ years42
What buyers value
What in a 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bids and estimating takeoffs | Aspire, LMN, Jobber or spreadsheets | Measured quantities, production rates and the price that won or lost, a record of how outdoor work gets costed. | Client names and the pricing you would not want a competitor to see. |
| Maintenance routes and visit logs | Scheduling module, crew apps | Which crew went where, how long each site took and what got skipped for weather, season after season. | Nothing specific |
| Pool service logs and chemistry readings | Pool route software (Skimmer, Pool Brain) or paper route sheets | The same readings and treatments recorded at every stop, a long and consistent record of cause and correction. | Homeowner addresses, gate codes and backyard photos. |
| Property walk notes and enhancement proposals | Email, CompanyCam, proposal tools | What an account manager noticed on a walk, what they proposed and whether the client said yes. | Nothing specific |
| Irrigation and equipment repair tickets | Field service platform, service tickets | Troubleshooting a zone or a pump in steps, with the parts used and the follow-up visit logged. | Nothing specific |
| Crew training and chemical safety documents | Shared drive, binders scanned to PDF | The method the company wrote for itself on mowing standards, pruning, chemical handling and snow events. | Applicator license numbers and employee details on training sign-off sheets. |
A week of records
A week of data at a company
- Monday: crews roll out on the week's maintenance routes, and the office logs the sites rained out last Friday.
- Tuesday: the estimator measures a new HOA common area and sends a bid with a mulch and plantings option.
- Wednesday: pool techs record readings and chemicals at each stop, flagging a pump making noise for a repair visit.
- Thursday: a property manager emails about brown patches, and the account manager replies with photos and an irrigation proposal.
- Friday: invoices go out, and the schedule for next week is rebuilt around a forecast of rain.
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 company? License its data first
When an owner sells routes or a whole landscaping or pool company to a larger operator, the route list is, in our reading, what gets priced. The written record behind those routes is a different set of records, and whether a license of it could close first is a question to talk through with the buyer you're working with. Pewter takes companies that are operating, winding down or closed, as long as the records still exist, and Spirit Airlines' archive shows an internal record can draw bids of its own.3,4
FAQ
Landscaping, lawn care and pool service companies: questions, answered
Landscaping workers score 39 out of 100 on O*NET's email scale, but their supervisors score 78. The record lives in bids, route schedules, visit notes and the account manager's email with each property manager.5
Polyshares asks about field operations records: work orders, dispatch, job tickets and site records. A pool route's weekly readings, chemicals and equipment notes are kept the same way at every stop for years, which in our reading is the kind of consistent record those questions describe.9
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
- How are homeowner addresses, gate codes and property photos removed before release?
- Do pesticide application records carry state reporting rules that follow a licensed copy?
- Can the license be disclosed to, or carved out of, a later sale of routes or the company?
- 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?
- How does a license affect a sale of the business: reps and warranties, change of control, earnouts, exclusivity?
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?