Roofing
$450,000
Roofing company
Exclusive · perpetual · full operating record
Your work orders and quality records show how a plant actually runs.
A plant's record is full of small, consequential decisions: why a lot was scrapped, which corrective action finally stuck, why an engineering change went through, which supplier got the expedite call. Industrial AI teams can model a machine. They have far less of the paperwork that shows how people run the line around it. We take an anonymized summary of your record to several buyers at once, and you choose the license and the uses it allows.
Small commission on close. Nothing up front.
Usually held in
- SAP S/4HANA
- Epicor Kinetic
- Plex (Rockwell Automation)
- NetSuite
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- MaintainX
- Fiix
- MasterControl
- ETQ Reliance
- Arena PLM
What buyers pay for in manufacturing.
Buyers value records that show a decision and what came of it more than they value finished paperwork. These are the parts of your record they look for.
Production work orders and routings
What was scheduled, what ran, what was scrapped or reworked, and how each order compared with its plan.
Quality events: NCRs, CAPAs and deviations
What went wrong, the root-cause work, the corrective action and whether the problem came back. Closed-loop quality history like this is hard to find outside a working plant.
Engineering changes
Change requests and orders with the reasoning behind them, the approvals and what they affected downstream.
Maintenance work orders
Breakdowns, preventive maintenance, technician notes, parts used and downtime, tied to the asset and the shift.
Purchasing and supplier records
Purchase orders, supplier quality issues and expediting threads. Supplier prices are removed or aggregated; the decisions around them are what matter.
Machine and line telemetry
Sensor histories, alarms and robot logs, paired with the work orders and quality events they explain. This interests a separate group of physical-AI and robotics buyers.
Systems that hold it and what to watch for.
This is where the record usually lives. Where we've written a data guide for a system, its card links to it, with steps to find out how much you have.
- SAP S/4HANAERP and finance
- Epicor KineticERP and finance
- Plex (Rockwell Automation)ERP and finance
- NetSuiteERP and financeRead the data guide
- Microsoft Dynamics 365ERP and finance
- MaintainXManufacturing operations (MES, QMS, CMMS)
- FiixManufacturing operations (MES, QMS, CMMS)
- MasterControlManufacturing operations (MES, QMS, CMMS)
- ETQ RelianceManufacturing operations (MES, QMS, CMMS)
- Arena PLMManufacturing operations (MES, QMS, CMMS)
Who buys it and what they do with it.
We describe buyers by category and don't publish their names. Each one is qualified and under NDA before seeing your summary, and when they bid you see every offer side by side, with exclusivity, term and payment next to the price.
Quality and maintenance AI
Teams building tools that spot recurring defects, suggest root causes and predict failures. Quality events and work orders with their outcomes are their core material.
ERP and procurement assistants
Products that draft purchase orders, chase suppliers and flag shortages. Real purchasing history shows them how planners actually work around the plan.
Physical-AI and robotics teams
Groups training models on how machines and lines behave. Telemetry tied to the human record of what happened is far more useful to them than sensor data alone.
AI labs building agents for operations
Labs that want multi-system work to train and test agents on: an ERP, a quality system, a maintenance queue and a supplier inbox, all touching the same order.
What a package looks like to a buyer.
Before anyone signs, a buyer sees a summary shaped like this one. It is built from rounded ranges: no name, no website, no people, no addresses.
The numbers in this example are made up. Yours come from your intake and the review call, and you read the summary before any buyer does.
See the full processExample package · Manufacturing
Illustrative- Sector
- Contract manufacturer, machined and fabricated parts
- Region
- Great Lakes US
- History
- 10+ years, continuous
- Record
- ~24K production orders, ~1.5K quality events, ~8K maintenance work orders
- Mix
- ~70% build-to-print, ~30% own product line
- In scope
- Production and maintenance work orders, NCR and CAPA records, purchasing history
- Left out
- Customer drawings and specs, export-controlled programs, prices and margins
What stays out by default.
Some records aren't yours to license, and some shouldn't leave the building. Intake and the review call bring these up early. The main ones for this industry are below.
Customer drawings, specs and part data
Drawings and specifications you build to usually belong to the customer and are covered by an NDA or a quality agreement. They stay out unless the customer agrees, and customer part numbers can be replaced with neutral codes.
Export-controlled and defense work
Technical data controlled under ITAR (22 CFR Parts 120–130) or the EAR (15 CFR Parts 730–774), and controlled unclassified information (32 CFR Part 2002), is not a fit and stays out entirely.
Trade secrets you want to keep
Recipes, process parameters, costings and margins are yours to leave out. A trade secret stays protected only while you take reasonable measures to keep it secret (18 U.S.C. 1839(3)), so anything licensed needs confidentiality and field-of-use terms.
Supplier terms and employee records
Supplier price agreements are often confidential. HR files, payroll and the medical details in safety-incident reports are excluded by default; aggregate safety counts can be discussed instead.
This is not legal advice. Whether a record can be licensed depends on your contracts, your software terms and how it was collected, and your counsel should review any license before you sign. The rules named on this page are linked under Sources.
Licenses in our network closed by buyers, not by us.
Recent licenses of operating records, closed by buyers in our network. They come from trades and services businesses rather than this industry, so read them as a sense of the market and nothing more.
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Licenses closed by buyers in our network, shown to describe the market. They are not deals thedata.broker brokered and not a forecast of what your record will bring. Every record is priced on its own.
Manufacturing questions worth settling early.
More in Answers, or ask us on a call after your intake.
It can if it's done carelessly. Trade-secret protection depends on reasonable steps to keep the information secret (18 U.S.C. 1839(3)), so the license needs confidentiality terms and limits on how the buyer may use your records. A field-of-use license keeps a buyer to the uses you agree to, and you can leave out recipes, settings and anything else you don't want to share. This is not legal advice; have counsel review the terms.
Often, yes. Your production, quality, maintenance and purchasing records describe how you run the shop, and they are usually yours, subject to your contracts. Customer drawings, specs and identifying part data stay out unless the customer agrees. Intake asks whether you hold data for customers and whether NDAs apply.
Not necessarily. Defense and export-controlled programs are out entirely. Commercial work may still fit if its records can be cleanly separated from controlled programs, and the review call goes through how your systems are split. This is not legal advice.
Yes, as its own data type. Telemetry, alarm histories and robot logs are most useful when they line up with work orders and quality events, and they reach a different group of buyers than the paperwork does.
Mostly, yes. Quotes, order handling, purchasing, inventory exceptions and supplier follow-up run through the same ERP records a plant keeps, and buyers look at them the same way. Customer price agreements and supplier terms are often confidential, so they are removed or aggregated.
We are paid a small commission out of a deal that closes. If nothing closes, you owe nothing. You keep ownership of your records and keep using them.
Sources
Primary sources for the rules this page names. Summaries above are not legal advice.
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