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Your work history has value. Keep your company.

AI companies license the operating records of established businesses (projects, tickets, estimates, decisions) to learn how real work gets done. Years of that history may earn your company a licence fee.

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Years of records sitting in systems nobody reads.

Every estimate revised, ticket resolved and exception handled is a record of expert judgement. AI companies need exactly that to teach systems how real businesses operate, and they license it from companies that kept it.

Licensing, not selling.

You keep ownership throughout. Nothing leaves your systems until you've seen an offer and agreed to it.

  1. 01

    Qualify

    A short call or email covering team size, the tools you use and how far back your records go. No files, passwords or system access.

  2. 02

    Buyer review

    With your permission, we introduce you to one vetted buyer whose current needs fit your industry. Never a bidding blast.

  3. 03

    Offer and terms

    The buyer prices your records individually. You negotiate scope, exclusivity and de-identification with your own lawyer.

  4. 04

    One-time export

    After signing, a de-identified historical copy is licensed under the agreed terms. Your business carries on as normal.

Who qualifies

Years of real work, kept.

  • 20+Desk staffFull-time people working in email, chat and business software, not field crews
  • 3+Years of recordsStill in your systems, mostly in English. Company age alone isn't enough
  • 5+Tools holding workEmail, Slack or Teams, file storage, CRM, project management, accounting, support desk
  • USTeam locationCanada, the UK and Europe are considered case by case
  • YouOwn the recordsAnd someone with authority can approve a licence

Never included

  • Work product owned by your clients under contract
  • Attorney–client privileged material
  • Patient health information
  • Payment-card, bank-account or Social Security numbers
  • Data about minors, and biometric data
  • Classified or export-controlled material
What buyers value

How the work actually got done.

Construction & trades

How jobs are estimated, changed and closed out.

Estimates, job notes, change orders

Architecture & engineering

How designs evolve through review.

Drawings, CAD and BIM, specs

Software & IT services

How problems are triaged and solved.

Tickets, project history, incidents

Accounting & finance

How books are reconciled and reviewed.

Reconciliations, review notes

Logistics & operations

How exceptions get handled.

Dispatch logs, routing, exceptions

Professional services

How company-owned work gets delivered.

Processes, decisions, delivery

Straight answers.

Am I selling my company?

No. A data licence is not an acquisition. You keep the business and its records. Licences can include exclusivity, for example agreeing not to license the same dataset to the buyer's competitors for a set period, so read the terms carefully with your lawyer.

How much is it worth?

It depends on your industry, the volume and depth of records, and what buyers currently need. Each buyer prices every company individually after review, so we won't quote a number up front. If a buyer can't make an offer, you've lost nothing but a short conversation.

What about my clients?

Records are de-identified through the buyer's process before licensing, and anything owned by your clients or covered by confidentiality obligations is excluded. Ownership questions are settled by you and your counsel before anything is signed.

Do you need system access?

No. We never ask for files, passwords or system access. Qualification is a handful of questions. Any samples or exports go directly between you and the buyer, under an agreement you've signed.

What does it cost me?

Nothing. We're independent originators: buyers pay us a referral fee when a licence they've agreed with you completes. That fee doesn't come out of your licence payment. We introduce you to one buyer at a time, and only with your permission.

How long does it take?

Qualification takes days. Buyer review, offer and contract typically take weeks, depending on the buyer and how quickly your team and lawyer move.

Get started

Five questions.

Email us and we'll send them over, or answer them in your first message.

  1. Current full-time desk staff, and where they're based
  2. The software tools your team works in
  3. Roughly how many years of history those tools hold
  4. Your industry and the main language of your records
  5. Whether you own the records and can approve a licence
“The work you've already done is the asset.”
Email hello@pastwork.ai