AI labs have already read most of the public internet. What they can’t find online is the inside of a working business: how a job was priced, what went wrong, and how it got sorted.
The everyday files are the valuable ones
The records that matter most are usually the ones nobody has opened in years:
- Emails and team chats where decisions were made
- Quotes, estimates and invoices
- Drawings, CAD files and machine programs
- Job files, site diaries and reports
- Support tickets and call notes
- Lab notebooks and test results
Connected beats complete
A single quote is mildly interesting. The quote, the drawing, the email that changed the price and the final bill, together, tell a story. That’s what labs pay most for: records that link up, so a model can learn how one decision led to the next.
Years matter
Ten years of records from one business show how it learned and changed. That’s hard to fake and hard to find, which is part of why it has value.
What labs don’t want
- Personal details. Names, phone numbers and addresses come out before anything leaves.
- Scraps with no context. A folder of unlabelled scans is far less useful than an organised server.
- Anything you don’t have the right to sell. We check that early.
What it’s worth
It depends on the size, age and sector of the records, and how well they connect. Other data firms have publicly reported payments of around £262k and £337k for single businesses’ records. Those aren’t our deals and they’re not a guide to yours, but they show the market is real.
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