What it truly took to build it

Builders and design firms usually ask whether their drawings are theirs to license. Some are, some are not, and you decide project by project.

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Records that tell the story

Behind every finished building sit hundreds of hidden decisions. Your project files are where those decisions are kept:

Drawing sets and models, with each revision
RFIs and the responses sent back to the field
Coordination logs, submittals and changes to orders
Punch lists and daily logs up to closeout

The worry: whose drawings are these?

The building owner may own the drawings and models, or your contract may restrict their use. Your contracts and your own counsel decide whether a project can go in; legal advice is not something we give. Scoping covers owner-controlled material project by project, and whatever is restricted stays out. Projects with security limits, such as government sites, can be excluded entirely.

Bids stay confidential

Your estimating files reveal how you price, and you may prefer to keep them to yourself. Leave them out. Anything you share is de-identified, with placeholders for owners, subs, suppliers, staff and site addresses.

What a buyer is shown

Picture a beam and a duct drawn into the same space. Someone catches the clash, the field submits an RFI, a revised layout gets priced as a change order, and the daily log notes how it was fixed. The buyer sees the full chain from question to closeout, with placeholders for every company and person. A model learns from that reasoning, not from your client list.

A typical fit

Contractors, design build firms and architects that have 20 or more full-time staff and hold 3 or more years of project history on a project platform, shared drives or Microsoft 365. A smaller firm with a long archive can qualify as well.

How the copy is made

First comes an NDA. License Your Data makes the de-identified copy, no one asks for a password, and your originals stay in your systems. Any project, folder or client can be excluded, and nothing goes out until you approve a sample. You pay nothing.

Good to know

Do we need every project?: No. To begin the conversation, a few well documented jobs may be enough.
Who needs to take part?: Normally an owner or principal, along with whoever manages your project platform and file servers.
Does this hold up our projects?: No. Your originals stay where they are, and your teams keep working in them.

Curious what your records are worth?

Just answer three questions. Within minutes, a License Your Data specialist calls to set up a 15-minute call.

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