What are your service records worth?
Every service call, repair, project and solved problem adds to your company's collective knowledge. CHI helps you identify, evaluate and explore opportunities to turn that knowledge into a valuable business asset.
Most of what you hear is hype. Here's what it's actually good for in an established business, starting with value you can measure.
Organizations building AI license real-world operational data. Qualifying records may become a new source of revenue.
An assistant built on your own records answers "how do we do this job?" the way your best technician would.
When a 30-year technician retires, the way they diagnose a problem doesn't have to leave with them.
What it isn't: a replacement for your crew. AI can't fix a roof. It learns from the people who can.
The hidden asset
For years, your business has generated valuable information through everyday operations.
Service histories, project records, maintenance logs, estimates, photographs and technical documentation capture something important: real-world experience.
What has traditionally been used to run your business may also have value beyond it. CHI helps you discover what's there.
Why now
The internet can teach a machine what a roof is. It can't teach it how one actually gets fixed. That knowledge lives in the records established firms keep.
In October 2026, one buyer, micro1, committed $1 billion over twelve months to license company operating data. Another, Polyshares, has published construction-sector deals of $300,000 and $450,000.
The programs look for companies with 30+ staff and years of documentation. Plenty of established trades firms qualify and have never been asked.
Sources: The Next Web, Oct 2026 (micro1 program); DDIY, Oct 2026 (Polyshares published construction deals). Figures are each buyer's own published numbers, not offers or estimates for your business. CHI is independent and has no agreement with any buyer named here.
Definition
CHI Collective Human Intelligence
Collective Human Intelligence (CHI) is the knowledge, experience and problem-solving expertise accumulated by people over years of real-world work.
Every repair, service call, estimate, project and solved problem creates valuable information. When organized and analyzed responsibly, that information can help businesses preserve institutional knowledge, improve operations and create new opportunities in the growing AI economy.
AI learns from data. The most valuable data often comes from people who know what they're doing.
No two people solve a problem exactly the same way. A company's records may contain thousands of examples of what worked, what didn't and how challenges were solved.
One person's experience is valuable. Thousands of experiences, organized together, can be extraordinary.
CHI helps unlock that collective knowledge so it can keep creating value for businesses and contribute to the next generation of AI.
More about CHIThree ways forward
Every business we assess leaves with a clear picture of its options. Many combine them: keep current operations data in-house, and license or sell older history.
Keep
Keep your knowledge working for you.
Not all valuable data needs to leave the business. Organize it, preserve it and put it to work inside your company.
Lease
Your historical records may create opportunities beyond your day-to-day operations.
Some qualifying datasets may be licensed to outside organizations under defined terms, often while you keep ownership.
Sell
Explore whether your accumulated knowledge could become a marketable asset.
Some datasets may suit a one-time transaction. Rights, ownership, exclusivity and compensation depend on the specific agreement.
Who qualifies
CHI is particularly interested in established businesses with substantial operating history and the records to show for it. These are examples, not requirements.
Three questions, nothing to submit. See which conversation makes sense for you.
How it works
Understand the business, its history, and the information it has accumulated.
Review the available data: its quality, completeness, structure, rights and potential applications.
Where appropriate and authorized, organize, classify and prepare information for an approved use or potential transaction.
Explore suitable opportunities involving internal use, licensing or a potential sale.
Commercial opportunities depend on data suitability, rights, market demand and contractual terms. Not every dataset will qualify, and some assessments end with a recommendation to keep the data in-house.
See each step in detailYou can approach data buyers yourself, and some owners should. Here's what changes when CHI does the work with you.
| On your own | With CHI | |
|---|---|---|
| Who you deal with | Web forms and remote representatives | CHI's founder, directly: on site or by video |
| Knowing what you have | You inventory your own records | A written assessment of quality, rights and options |
| Personal information | Some programs leave removal to you | We handle it, and you review a sample before signing |
| Paper records | Often can't be used | Digitized and organized where it makes sense |
| Comparing terms | One application at a time | Terms laid side by side in plain language |
| Your team | Not part of the deal | An optional share pool for the people who built the records |
| If the data isn't marketable | No path forward | A plan to keep it working inside your business |
If your data is licensed or sold, the proceeds are yours to direct. Owners we talk with tend to think about three things.
The people whose know-how built the records can share in what those records earn, through an optional pool that partly vests over 12 to 24 months.
Put cleaned records to work on systems you control, so new hires can ask "how do we do this job?" and get your company's answer.
Equipment, debt reduction or a cushion, funded by an asset that was sitting in boxes and old drives.
Trust and control
I started my career in the trades, then spent fifteen years in enterprise software. I built CHI so owners can see what their experience is worth, and decide what to do with it.
Alexander Cook, Founder and CEO
You'll work with Alexander directly. See a sample assessment before you commit to anything.
No. Value depends on the depth, completeness and structure of your records, the rights attached to them, and market demand. Some assessments recommend keeping the data in-house, and we'll tell you honestly if that's the best path.
Personal and customer-identifying information is removed or excluded before any data is offered, and you review a sample first.
No. You keep your originals.
Nothing. It's a 30-minute conversation about your business and where your records live. We won't ask you to share any data.
You've spent years building your business. Let's explore whether the knowledge you've accumulated could create another opportunity.
Free · 30 minutes · No obligation
