About Sell Architecture Data to AI
The people behind this site read the published terms of design, visualisation and practice-management software and the copyright rules architects work under, keep the text they quote, and answer each enquiry personally.
Why it is here
Whether an architect can license an archive is settled mostly by the appointments it signed and the tools it drew in. This site puts those clauses beside the statutes, so ownership is clear before value is discussed.
Who this helps
Principals, directors and practice managers of architecture firms holding years of drawings, models and specifications from completed projects.
What you will find here
This site answers one question, "sell architecture data to ai", with a quote form you can use straight away, no account. It adds 4 guides on the questions people ask next. It also publishes a data table to cite (figures and method here) alongside the sources it draws on.
- Can an architecture firm sell its drawings and models to AI?: Can an architecture firm sell its drawings and models to AI? It turns on the appointments, the design tools' terms, and a buyer's own size floor.
- Do architects own their drawings? The statutes and the appointments: Do architects own their drawings once the client has paid? What US and UK copyright law says, and the licence the AIA and RIBA appointments give clients.
- Architect copyright licence: what AIA B101 and RIBA give clients: The architect copyright licence in AIA B101 and the RIBA Professional Services Contracts, and why it rarely stops a practice licensing its own archive.
- Selling an architectural firm and the archive that comes with it: Selling an architectural firm moves its archive and its appointments together. What changes hands, and which buyers of design records set a size floor.
What it will not do
- We do not rank any design tool; a row is the vendor's sentence and our short reading of it.
- We never ask for drawings, models or client names through the form.
- We do not show a client's project to any buyer without that project being cleared first.
The person responsible
Joseph Ellul-Turner, Director.
How to reach us
Use Contact or write to enquiries@sellarchitecturedatatoai.com. The legal side is on Terms and Privacy.
No software vendor, contract publisher or buyer pays to appear on this site, and nothing here earns a commission. Each answer is our reading of a published document, not legal advice on your own appointments. How this site is paid: if your practice licenses its archive to a buyer we introduce, our fee is 12.5% of the deal, with a minimum, when we act as your exclusive agent, or 10% with a minimum when the archive joins a bundle or the pool, agreed in writing first; any fee a buyer pays us is credited back to you.