Understand what you have.
Most companies don't know where their operational records live or how much has accumulated. Establishing that clearly is the first step.
Applied AI data research
Discover what your business is built on.
Your company has spent years building knowledge about how work gets done. That knowledge may live in its systems, communications, procedures, decisions, and completed work.
A-Type Research helps you understand what may be valuable to companies developing AI and whether a qualified opportunity is worth pursuing.
What's changed
The companies building AI have already trained on the public internet: books, websites, documentation, archives, and the shared record of what people have written down.
What they haven't trained on is how organizations actually operate. The judgment inside a business. The way a problem moves through a company: how it surfaces, who weighs in, what gets decided, and what happens next.
That knowledge was never written down for an outside audience. It accumulated inside the systems companies use every day.
It's now something AI research organizations are actively seeking.
What this involves, and what it doesn't
What's relevant.
Records that explain how work moves, how decisions are made, and how problems get resolved.
- Internal communication and correspondence
- Documented procedures and how work moves through the company
- Records of problems raised and resolved
- Project history and completed work
- Operational and workflow records
What isn't.
Lists and personal information that describe who a company serves rather than how the company operates.
- Customer lists
- Contact information
- Sales and transaction records
- Marketing databases
- Personal information about your customers or employees
This is about how your company operates, not about who it serves.
Business operations
The clearest signal is volume of internal activity. Companies where a lot of coordination happens across dispatch, service, support, estimating, project management, and logistics tend to have accumulated the most of what's relevant.
Industry generally matters less than people expect. A distributor, a professional services firm, and a multi-location service company can each hold substantial operational knowledge for the same underlying reason. Years in operation and number of people involved tend to matter more than what the company sells.
Explore Business OperationsRecorded work and video
There is a second, separate area of interest: recorded work.
Frontier labs are paying for video footage of physical work being performed on a per-hour basis, with ongoing monthly payments for continuing feeds. Warehouses, production floors, field service, and skilled trades are all of interest. This is a different opportunity from operational records, with different requirements. Companies sometimes qualify for one, the other, or both.
Explore Recorded Work
How A-Type Research works with you
Assess whether it qualifies.
Not every company is a fit. We'll tell you plainly, either way.
Determine what it may be worth.
Value depends on specifics. This is a conversation, not a calculator.
Handle the process.
If you decide to move forward, we manage the work involved so your team doesn't have to.
We do not work with data involving children, medical or health records, or legal and privileged material. There are categories where the answer is simply no, regardless of interest.
Most companies don't know what they have.
The only way to find out what your operations may be worth is to look. A conversation costs nothing and takes about thirty minutes.
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