Who will pay a plumbing firm for its job history
On 28 October 2026, 3 of 4 organisations whose pages we read buy or license the records themselves, rather than acting for the seller or running a marketplace.
Which side of the deal it sits on
Whether a closing or exiting firm is named
Whether it asks for years of operating history
What it says it wants, quoted
How every organisation answered
Read across a row for one organisation's answers, and open any of them for the quoted sentence, its page and the read date. A "not stated" cell means the page does not speak to that question.
| Organisation | Which side of the deal it sits on | Whether a closing or exiting firm is named | Whether it asks for years of operating history | What it says it wants, quoted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LicenseMyData | acts for the company that sells | names firms that are closing, winding down or being sold | asks for years of records or operating history | Production companies: your business records are a separate matter. Email, project… |
| Mode | buys or licenses the records itself | not statedNot addressed in Mode data page | asks for years of records or operating history | Get paid for the operating history your business or nonprofit already owns. |
| Nyne | buys or licenses the records itself | not statedNot addressed in Data partnerships page | asks for years of records or operating history | Before your data is used, identifying details are removed and records are cleaned and… |
| Polyshares | buys or licenses the records itself | asks for years of records or operating history Not addressed in Track record page | A thread where two people disagree about a quote and work it out carries judgment that… |
The source sentence behind every answer (20)
- LicenseMyData, Home page, read 2026-10-27, Which side of the deal it sits on:
Our role depends on the deal.
- LicenseMyData, Home page, read 2026-10-27, Whether a closing or exiting firm is named:
WIND-DOWN, ADMINISTRATION AND ESTATES
- LicenseMyData, Home page, read 2026-10-27, Whether it asks for years of operating history:
System names, volumes and years of history. Never messages or files. You get a realistic range.
- LicenseMyData, Home page, read 2026-10-27, What it says it wants, quoted:
Production companies: your business records are a separate matter. Email, project history, finance and contracts are licensed as company data.
- Mode, Mode data page, read 2026-10-28, Which side of the deal it sits on:
Mode removes sensitive material and transforms personal identifiers in the agreed copy before reselling it for AI research and training.
- Mode, Mode data page, read 2026-10-28, Whether a closing or exiting firm is named: Not addressed: the page read on 2026-10-28 (8,964 characters) is silent on this.
- Mode, Mode data page, read 2026-10-28, Whether it asks for years of operating history:
Companies with several years of records they own and teams primarily based in the U.S. are the strongest fit.
- Mode, Mode data page, read 2026-10-28, What it says it wants, quoted:
Get paid for the operating history your business or nonprofit already owns.
- Nyne, Data partnerships page, read 2026-10-27, Which side of the deal it sits on:
We partner with you to license your company's data.
- Nyne, Data partnerships page, read 2026-10-27, Whether a closing or exiting firm is named: Not addressed: the page read on 2026-10-27 (3,771 characters) is silent on this.
- Nyne, Data partnerships page, read 2026-10-27, Whether it asks for years of operating history:
Build a detailed inventory of your tools, data sizes and history.
- Nyne, Data partnerships page, read 2026-10-27, What it says it wants, quoted:
Before your data is used, identifying details are removed and records are cleaned and formatted. This work happens on our side, you transfer the data as it exists today, and we take it from there.
- Polyshares, Data licensing page, read 2026-10-27, Which side of the deal it sits on:
Polyshares. We are the buyer. No marketplace, no listing, and no auction.
- Polyshares, Data licensing page, read 2026-10-27, Whether a closing or exiting firm is named: Not addressed: the page read on 2026-10-27 (5,470 characters) is silent on this.
- Polyshares, Data licensing page, read 2026-10-27, Whether it asks for years of operating history:
The length and texture of the record matter more than headcount or revenue.
- Polyshares, Data licensing page, read 2026-10-27, What it says it wants, quoted:
A thread where two people disagree about a quote and work it out carries judgment that cannot be manufactured.
- Polyshares, Track record page, read 2026-10-27, Which side of the deal it sits on:
Perpetual exclusive license to the operational record. Anonymized before delivery.
- Polyshares, Track record page, read 2026-10-27, Whether a closing or exiting firm is named: Not addressed: the page read on 2026-10-27 (1,331 characters) is silent on this.
- Polyshares, Track record page, read 2026-10-27, Whether it asks for years of operating history: Not addressed: the page read on 2026-10-27 (1,331 characters) is silent on this.
- Polyshares, Track record page, read 2026-10-27, What it says it wants, quoted:
A selection of operational records Polyshares has bought, anonymized, and supplied to AI labs, across sectors and company sizes.
How we read and count
Each organisation's own organisations own pages for companies selling or closing were read through estate-fetch and stored whole (sha256 on every row).
For every page, four questions were answered from its own words: which side of the deal it sits on, whether a closing or exiting firm is named, whether it asks for years of operating history, what it says it wants, quoted.
Every stated answer carries the sentence it rests on, checked against the stored text; 'not stated' means the page read does not address the question.
A organisation with several pages reads 'varies' where they disagree.
4 organisations, 5 pages.
2 more named documents are listed but unread, and not counted.
Source list (7)
- Nyne data partnerships (cited for reporting; the publisher's own organisations own pages for companies selling or closing)
- Polyshares data licensing (cited for reporting; the publisher's own organisations own pages for companies selling or closing)
- Polyshares track record (cited for reporting; the publisher's own organisations own pages for companies selling or closing)
- SimpleClosure (not yet read)
- Grepped (not yet read)
- Mode data (cited for reporting; the publisher's own organisations own pages for companies selling or closing)
- LicenseMyData (cited for reporting; the publisher's own organisations own pages for companies selling or closing)
Use this figure
On 28 October 2026, 3 of 4 organisations whose pages we read buy or license the records themselves, rather than acting for the seller or running a marketplace.
Which side of the deal it sits on, by organisation: buys or licenses the records itself 3 of 4, acts for the company that sells 1 of 4 (4 organisations, read 28 October 2026).
Whether a closing or exiting firm is named, by organisation: not stated 3 of 4, names firms that are closing, winding down or being sold 1 of 4 (4 organisations, read 28 October 2026).
Whether it asks for years of operating history, by organisation: asks for years of records or operating history 4 of 4 (4 organisations, read 28 October 2026).
What it says it wants, quoted, by organisation: stated 4 of 4 (4 organisations, read 28 October 2026).
Citation: "Who will pay a plumbing firm for its job history", updated 2026-10-28, https://sellplumbingdatatoai.com/datasets/plumbing-data-buyers/.
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