DATA LICENSING FOR MANUFACTURERS
Your production records are worth something to an AI lab.
Recent placements
$200K–$2M
Paid to the company by Wire or ACH
Industrial AI is being trained on how things actually get made. Find out what your shop's history is worth — three minutes, no cost to explore.
AI is moving off the screen and onto the shop floor.
The labs building it need years of real manufacturing history — and almost none of it is public.
You've been producing it every shift. We get you paid for it.
The records you already keep anyway.
Buyers aren't looking for anything special. Ten years of travelers, inspection reports and downtime logs from an ordinary job shop is exactly what they want.
- Work orders and travelers
- Routings and process sheets
- Setups and cycle times
- Inspection and CMM reports
- NCRs, CAPAs and scrap logs
- Machine and sensor data
- CNC and CAM programs
- Maintenance and downtime logs
- CAD and drawings you own
- Engineering change orders
- Quotes and RFQs
- Purchasing and supplier records
- 01
Nothing touches the floor.
Exports come from systems you already run: ERP, MES, quality, maintenance. No installs, no downtime, nobody touches a machine.
- 02
Customer details come out first.
Customer names, part numbers and anything under NDA are removed or masked before anything moves. You approve exactly what goes.
- 03
Licensed, not sold.
You keep everything and keep using it. The buyer gets anonymized access on terms you sign.
- 04
Fast, and nothing up front.
A call the same day, usually a concrete offer within about 48 hours. No cost to explore.
RECENT PLACEMENTS
Recently paid out to manufacturers
Depending on years of history, volume and systems. A range of outcomes, not a promise.
CNC machine shop · Ohio
$1.4M
Paid out in 10 days
Fourteen years of travelers, setup sheets and cycle times.
Injection molder · Michigan
$620K
Paid out in 2 weeks
Process sheets, scrap logs and press maintenance history.
Metal fabricator · Texas
$2M
Paid out in 3 weeks
Routings, weld inspection reports and NCRs going back a decade.
Contract electronics assembler
$340K
Paid out in 9 days
AOI results, rework tickets and line downtime records.
Food & beverage co-packer
$880K
Paid out in 3 weeks
Batch records, QA holds and sanitation logs.
Precision grinding shop
$260K
Paid out in 4 weeks
CMM reports, gauge calibrations and job costing.
CNC machine shop · Ohio
$1.4M
Paid out in 10 days
Fourteen years of travelers, setup sheets and cycle times.
Injection molder · Michigan
$620K
Paid out in 2 weeks
Process sheets, scrap logs and press maintenance history.
Metal fabricator · Texas
$2M
Paid out in 3 weeks
Routings, weld inspection reports and NCRs going back a decade.
Contract electronics assembler
$340K
Paid out in 9 days
AOI results, rework tickets and line downtime records.
Food & beverage co-packer
$880K
Paid out in 3 weeks
Batch records, QA holds and sanitation logs.
Precision grinding shop
$260K
Paid out in 4 weeks
CMM reports, gauge calibrations and job costing.
START HERE
What does your shop run on?
Pick everything you use. Spreadsheets and scanned paper count — most shops have more history than they think.
No cost to explore. Nothing you tell us leaves Cognor.