Job notes, estimates and booking calls: the home service data AI labs buy

No buyer publishes a price list by industry. What they do publish is a range for a whole company: micro1, Polyshares and Ventra each advertise deals from roughly $100K to $2M or more, and Pewter's licensing partner cites examples between $350K and $650K. Read those as the buyers' own marketing figures, not offers.

For a home service company of about 35 people, three things move the number most: how many years of history you have, how much of the work is written down in one place, and how cleanly client and employee details can be removed. Try the worth estimator for a range based on your size.

On Troveo's intake form, the closest category ("construction and trades") sits in the second of its four demand tiers, which it describes as above-average demand. Polyshares accepts hvac, though it does not mark it as premium.

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• Monday: a heat wave fills the board with no-cool calls.
• Tuesday: a tech quotes a replacement with three options.
• Wednesday: maintenance members booked for spring tune-ups.
• Thursday: a callback traced to a misdiagnosis and noted.
• Friday: CSR call reviews and a script update.

Illustrative. Multiply one week by every year you have kept, and that is the record a buyer is looking at. The written decisions matter more than the totals.

• HVAC companies: Equipment histories, diagnostic notes and repair versus replace proposals are what AI buyers want from HVAC firms. Who buys and what to protect.
• Plumbing companies: Emergency booking notes, camera inspections and repipe estimates are what buyers want from plumbers. Who buys plumbing data and how it works.
• Roofing companies: Annotated inspections, insurance supplements and production notes from roofers are wanted by AI labs. Buyers, privacy and process.
• Solar installers: Proposals, permits, interconnection files and inspection records are what buyers want from solar installers. Who buys and what Polyshares has published.
• ServiceTitan data: Tech notes, booked calls, estimates and dispatch history in ServiceTitan are what AI buyers want. How to get it out and what to check first.
• Jobber data: Client requests, quotes, job notes and text threads in Jobber are what buyers want from smaller service businesses. How to export and what to check.

1. 1

   Check the fit

   Answer a few questions about headcount, years of records and the systems you use. No files change hands.

2. 2

   Inventory call

   A buyer walks through what you hold and what it wants. Most say the owner spends one to three hours in total.

3. 3

   Written offer

   Buyers usually send terms within days to two weeks: price, scope, term and whether the deal is exclusive.

4. 4

   Clean and deliver

   Personal details are removed under the agreed method, then a copy is exported. Your originals stay where they are.

A data license can sit alongside a sale or a wind-down. If you are selling the business, agree with the acquirer who keeps the right to license the archive. If you are closing down, keep the workspace and inboxes alive until a buyer has seen them. A closed company is not out of options: SimpleClosure reports more than 150 completed sales of shut-down startups' archives.