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Updated October 2026

Selling a construction company

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Your company sells on backlog, bonding, crews and the owners and subs you work with. The project archive behind it, years of RFIs, submittals, change orders and job email, is something a buyer of the company rarely prices, and AI companies now pay to license a copy of records like these. Construction is one of the fields buyers name most: Polyshares lists a general contractor it paid $300,000, by its own account.1,2

Match my companyWhat is it worth?

What they want

RFIs, submittals and change orders

Every job leaves a chain of written decisions: the RFI from the field, the architect's answer, the submittal that followed, the change order that priced it and the schedule update that absorbed it. In Procore or a similar platform those are linked, and micro1 says it looks for exactly this kind of workflow that staff repeat hundreds of times a year. The estimating side counts too, from bid leveling sheets to the notes on why one sub won.3

Buyers single out CAD and design files as in especially high demand, alongside SOPs, job email, recorded calls and the ERP, so a contractor's drawing archive is worth listing before a first call.4,5,6

Who fits

Is my company big enough?

Field crews on payroll count, so many contractors clear the floors. Most buyers want 20 to 30 or more people, some count your peak headcount, and a few state no minimum. Construction sits near the top of several buyers' demand lists.7,8,4,9,10,2,11

The money is quoted as the buyers' own claims. Polyshares says it paid a general contractor $300,000, and published ranges mostly run $100K to $2M. The quiz introduces you to the buyers that take a contractor like you.1,12,13,14,15

Is my company big enough?
FactValue and source
Polyshares deals it lists

Lists four deals with names kept confidential, among them a $300,000 general contractor, a $275,000 solar company and a $110,000 global marketing agency

It describes each as a perpetual exclusive license.

[1] Polyshares track record page · company's own claim ·

Pewter: strongest demand

Logistics, distribution, construction, engineering and accounting

[2] Pewter partners page · company's own claim ·

Ventra ads

Meta ads from 2026-10-11: "It's a license, not a sale", "You keep your company"; US companies with 30+ employees and 3+ years of records

Ads say call recordings, CAD files, support tickets and email are in especially high demand, and link to go.joinventra.com.

[4] Meta Ad Library, Ventra page · company's own claim ·

What stays out

Owners' drawings and subs' shop drawings

Much of a project file was made by others: the owner's drawings, the architect's specs and the subs' shop drawings. Buyers say data held for clients can be left out, and you can usually exclude whole systems or folders, which can leave your own correspondence, logs and procedures. Government and secure projects add their own limits. Those ownership questions are listed below for the buyer.16,17

In a sale

When to raise it with the buyer of the company

The buyer takes the open jobs and usually the project platform; the closed jobs are the archive. Raise any license before the letter of intent. It moves fast and takes little of your time: offers usually arrive in a few days to two weeks, and your part is mostly an export, about 1-3 hours by the buyers' own count.13,18,19

FAQ

Questions, answered with sources

  • Yes. Several buyers name construction among their strongest demand, and one lists a paid general contractor deal.2,1,10

  • Linked project decisions and drawings. Buyers single out CAD and design files, along with SOPs, job email and the ERP.4,5,6

  • Probably, with crews on payroll. Most buyers want 20 to 30 or more people, and a few state no minimum.7,8,4,9,10

  • Usually not. Buyers say data held for clients can be left out, so ask each one for its exclusions in writing.16

  • Polyshares says it paid a general contractor $300,000, by its own account. Published ranges mostly run $100K to $2M, as the buyers' own claims.1,12,14,15

  • Yes, with some buyers. A few take companies in any status, closed ones included, and count staff at the company's peak.20,21

  • 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 project documents belong to owners, architects or subs, and how will you exclude them?
  • 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?

How this page was made

Figures come from the published sources listed below, and what a buyer says about itself is its own claim. Anything marked as our estimate is ours, not a buyer quote. Drafted with AI help from our research, then checked against each source. Updated October 2026.

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Sources (21)

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  2. 2.Pewter partners page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  3. 3.micro1 Enterprise Data Partnership page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  4. 4.Meta Ad Library, Ventra page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  5. 5.Pewter website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  6. 6.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
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  12. 12.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  13. 13.Ventra company data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  14. 14.micro1 company referral page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  15. 15.Mode company data site. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  16. 16.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  17. 17.Grepped security page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  18. 18.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  19. 19.Pewter website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  20. 20.Pewter. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  21. 21.License My Data website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.