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Six types of business record that AI buyers keep asking for

Buyers word their wish lists in different ways. Compare them and six categories show up again and again, and every one of them records how a real job was done.

AI Data Offers research deskChecked against our methodology Updated October 28, 2026 2 min read 12 sources

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The six categories

Procedures
Typical contents
SOPs, playbooks, manuals, help centres
Buyers that mention it
Top of micro1's list. Supersoniq's ads talk about old binders.
Conversations
Typical contents
Email, Slack, Teams, Google Chat
Buyers that mention it
Almost all of them. SimpleClosure saw Slack in 95% of the workspaces it reviewed.
Work logs
Typical contents
Tickets, project histories, CRM entries
Buyers that mention it
Polyshares; Nyne lists Jira, Asana, Salesforce and HubSpot
Financial and operational
Typical contents
Invoices, orders, dispatch, schedules
Buyers that mention it
Nyne lists QuickBooks, Xero and NetSuite
Working files
Typical contents
CAD, design files, recorded calls
Buyers that mention it
Ventra's ads call these high demand
Code
Typical contents
Repositories plus their tickets
Buyers that mention it
Turing's Project Lazarus, with a 50,000-line minimum

Category	Typical contents	Buyers that mention it
Procedures	SOPs, playbooks, manuals, help centres	Top of micro1's list. Supersoniq's ads talk about old binders.
Conversations	Email, Slack, Teams, Google Chat	Almost all of them. SimpleClosure saw Slack in 95% of the workspaces it reviewed.
Work logs	Tickets, project histories, CRM entries	Polyshares; Nyne lists Jira, Asana, Salesforce and HubSpot
Financial and operational	Invoices, orders, dispatch, schedules	Nyne lists QuickBooks, Xero and NetSuite
Working files	CAD, design files, recorded calls	Ventra's ads call these high demand
Code	Repositories plus their tickets	Turing's Project Lazarus, with a 50,000-line minimum

What lifts the value

Range of situations. Surge AI prizes archives covering lots of different scenarios, arguments and hard calls included.
Workflows that repeat. micro1 looks for clear processes staff perform over and over.
Headcount, history and tooling. Sunset prices on staff numbers, years trading, volume and how the team used its software. Mercor says each extra connected tool raises the offer.
Connected records. This is our own inference: when a ticket links to its fix, or a quote links to its job and invoice, the buyer sees a complete piece of work from start to finish.

What usually stays out

SimpleClosure refuses to sell sensitive staff or medical records. Polyshares skips anything a company stores for its clients. Return My Time leaves out customer files and privileged documents. Inside the licensed set, personal details are stripped or substituted: Nyne's ads mention client names becoming codes, and Polyshares brings in an outside firm to do the scrubbing.

An example business

Take a heating and plumbing contractor with 30 staff. Between its dispatch system, job tickets, quotes, vendor emails and a binder of installation steps, it covers five categories. Code is the only gap, and plenty of buyers have no interest in code.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Is business email in demand?

Yes. It appears on most buyers' lists, and several can link straight to Gmail or Outlook.

Do buyers care about accounting records?

Some do. Nyne names QuickBooks, Xero and NetSuite as sources it licenses from, and broker ads list orders and invoices.

How do I make my records worth more?

Broader situations, repeatable workflows, a longer history and more connected systems all help.

Is source code wanted?

By some buyers. Turing's Project Lazarus has a code program with a 50,000-line minimum.

See what your data could be worth

A rough range from published deals and buyer price bands, based on headcount and years of records.

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