For manufacturers & industrial companies
AI labs want real manufacturing records, like work orders, QA logs, spec sheets and batch records, because almost none of it is public. Formulas, customer specs and anything you mark off-limits stay with you.
What's valuable
Records of real work and how it turned out. The more years and the better kept, the more they're worth.
What was made, how, on which line, and how long it really took.
Every nonconformance, its root cause and the corrective action that fixed it.
How specs changed and why, with customer-confidential detail removed.
The run-by-run record of a real process.
What broke, what it cost and how the team got the line running again.
How material planning works in practice.
What labs learn from it
When a batch fails inspection, your team traces it, finds the cause, adjusts the process and documents the corrective action. An AI that has never seen a real nonconformance report can't do that. Your QA history shows it how, one real case at a time.
Your records teach a model
The numbers
Per company for approved data packages, on one AI data company's published program.
Source: micro1's public program page, Oct 2026
Offers received in August by roofing, construction, accounting, law and mortgage firms, as posted by one data broker.
Source: offers posted publicly by a data broker, Aug 2026
“Manufacturing: work orders, QA logs, spec sheets”
Listed by one buyer among the data its program licenses.
Source: Mercor's public data page, Oct 2026
No manufacturing-specific prices are public yet, so these are general figures from other industries. Very little factory data is public, which is why buyers are asking for it. We never promise a number. Value depends on how much data you have, how many years it covers and how well it's 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 data needed yet.
We match you with buyers who want your kind of data, then handle anonymization, PII removal and the paperwork. You approve every file and every term before anything leaves.
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. Formulations, recipes, customer drawings and anything export-controlled stay out. The valuable part is usually the workflow around production (work orders, QA findings, corrective actions), not the recipe itself.
Nothing leaves until it has been through three steps. Personal data (names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, account numbers) is removed or replaced with placeholders. The cleaned files are reviewed, by us and then by you. And you sign off in writing. Customer personal data, 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 data is delivered and accepted, typically 60 to 90 days after acceptance, and some pay sooner.
It depends on the data. 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 data buyer, so our job is to find the buyer that fits your data rather than to fill one buyer's quota.
Free valuation
Two minutes. No data needed yet.
Free, no obligation, and nothing is shared without your approval.
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