What it truly took to build it

The usual first question from builders and design firms is whether their drawings are theirs to license. Some are, some are not, and you decide project by project.

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Where the story lives

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 answers that went back to the field
Submittals, change orders and coordination logs
Punch lists and daily logs up to closeout

The concern: who owns these drawings?

The building owner may own the drawings and models, or your contract may restrict their use. Whether a project may be included depends on your contracts and your own counsel, and we offer no 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.

Bids stay confidential

Your estimating files reveal how you price, and you may prefer to keep them to yourself. Exclude them. Whatever you include is de-identified, and owners, subcontractors, suppliers, staff and project addresses all become placeholders.

What buyers really see

Say a beam and a duct are drawn into one 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. A buyer follows that chain from first question to closeout, every company and person swapped for a placeholder. That reasoning, not your client list, is what a model learns from.

How we build the copy

It starts with an NDA. License Your Data prepares the de-identified copy, nobody asks for a password, and your originals never leave your systems. You exclude any project, folder or client you like and approve a sample before anything goes out. You pay nothing.

Quick answers

Is every project needed?: No. A small set of well documented jobs can get things started.
Who should be on the call?: Usually an owner or principal, plus whoever runs your project platform and file servers.
Will our jobs slow down?: No. Your teams keep working in the originals, which never move.

Who tends to qualify

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

Wondering what your files could be worth?

Three questions are all it takes. A License Your Data specialist calls within minutes to book a 15-minute call.

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