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For civil, structural, MEP & mechanical engineering firms
AI labs license real engineering records to learn how design work gets done: calculation packages, review markups, RFIs, submittals and test reports. Client names, project addresses and anything under NDA or export control stay out, and you keep ownership.
What a 35-person engineering firm holds
What's valuable
Records of real work and how it turned out. The more years and the better kept, the more they're worth.
Load, sizing and code-check calculations, with the assumptions your engineers wrote down.
A senior engineer's redlines on a junior's design may be the most valuable record you have: they show what good judgment looks like.
The questions from the field and how your team answered them.
What was tested, what failed and what changed after.
How your firm applies codes and standards in practice.
How a design evolved from concept to issued for construction.
What labs learn from it
A contractor finds a conflict on site and sends an RFI. Your engineer checks the drawings, runs a quick calculation, weighs the options and answers within a day. An AI that has never seen a real RFI can't do that. Your project files show it how, one real question at a time.
Your records teach a model
The numbers
Per company for approved record packages, on one AI company's published program.
Source: a large AI company's public program page, Oct 2026
Offers received in August by roofing, construction, accounting, law and mortgage firms, as posted by one licensing broker.
Source: offers posted publicly by a licensing broker, Aug 2026
Paid out to nine businesses for their records in a single 24-hour stretch, by one company's own account.
Source: that company's CEO, on X, Sept 2026
No engineering-specific prices are public yet, so these are general figures from other industries. Mechanical engineering is on one company's public list of fields it licenses (October 2026). We never promise a number. Value depends on how many records you have, how many years they cover and how well they're kept. Your valuation tells you where you stand.
See where you standHow it works
You don't need to prepare anything for the valuation, and nothing leaves your company until you've seen it and signed off.
Answer a few questions about your company. Within one business day we email you what buyers want from businesses like yours and what drives the price. No files needed yet.
We match you with buyers who want your kind of records and handle the paperwork. Personal details come out before anything leaves, and you approve every file and every term.
Your company is paid under the license you sign. The buyer pays our fee, so it costs you nothing.
Privacy
You decide what's in scope. These never leave, and nothing goes anywhere without your written sign-off.
How we anonymize
The buyer pays us a fee when a deal closes. You never pay us anything: there's no upfront cost, and if no deal closes, nobody owes anything.
Only what you put in scope ever leaves. Client names, project addresses and anything under NDA or export control stay out. The valuable part is usually how your engineers work (calculations, review comments, RFI answers), not a client's finished design.
Nothing leaves until it has been through three steps. Personal details (names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, account numbers) are removed or replaced with placeholders. The cleaned files are reviewed, and you see them before anything is shared. And you sign off in writing. Customer personal details, privileged or regulated records, and HR and payroll files are left out entirely.
Your valuation arrives within one business day. If you go ahead, scoping and signing usually take a few weeks. Buyers pay once the records are delivered and accepted, typically 60 to 90 days after acceptance, and some pay sooner.
It depends on the records. Employee names and contact details are removed like everyone else's, and HR, payroll and personnel files never leave. Some material, such as call recordings or staff messages in certain states, can carry notice or consent rules; we flag it before anything is shared. Many owners choose to tell their team, and your counsel has the final word.
Nothing. The buyer pays us a fee when a deal closes. There's no upfront cost, and if no deal happens, nobody pays anything.
Then nothing happens. The valuation is free and commits you to nothing. You can stop at any point before you sign, and nothing is ever shared without your written approval.
Data Dividend is a service of Augment Inc., based in Plano, Texas. We're independent, not tied to any one AI lab or buyer, so our job is to find the buyer that fits your records rather than to fill one buyer's quota.
Free valuation
Two minutes. No files needed yet.
Free, no obligation, and nothing is shared without your approval.
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