What it truly took to build it

Builders and designers tend to start by asking if they have the right to license their drawings. Some are and some are not, and you make the call per project.

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Records that tell the story

A finished building hides the hundreds of decisions behind it. You can find those choices in your project files:

Drawing sets and models, with each revision
Questions from the field and the answers that went back
Coordination logs, submittals and changes to orders
Punch lists and daily logs up to closeout

The concern: who owns these drawings?

Drawings and models may belong to the building owner, or your contract may limit how they are used. Whether a project can be included is a question for your contracts and your own counsel; we do not give legal advice. Owner-controlled material is reviewed project by project in scoping, and anything restricted can simply stay out. Any project under security limits, like a government site, can be excluded in full.

Your bids remain private

How you price work shows in your estimating files, which you may want to protect. Exclude them. Anything you share is de-identified, with placeholders for owners, subs, suppliers, staff and site addresses.

What buyers really see

Say a beam and a duct are drawn into one space. The clash gets flagged, the field sends an RFI, the layout is revised and priced as a change order, and the daily log records the fix. A buyer sees that chain from question to closeout, with every company and person replaced by a placeholder. What a model learns from is the reasoning, never your client list.

Quick answers

Do we need every project?: No. To begin the conversation, a few well documented jobs may be enough.
Who should be on the call?: Normally an owner or principal, along with whoever manages your project platform and file servers.
Will it slow down our jobs?: No. Your teams keep working in the originals, which never move.

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. Smaller firms may also qualify if their archive goes back years.

How we build the copy

An NDA comes first. The de-identified copy comes from License Your Data, passwords are never requested, and originals never leave your systems. Any project, folder or client can be excluded, and nothing goes out until you approve a sample. It costs you nothing.

Wondering what your files could be worth?

Three questions are all it takes. License Your Data has a specialist phone you within minutes to arrange a 15-minute call.

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