Data guides
We help companies license their operating data to AI labs and data vendors. These notes answer the questions owners ask us most, in the order they usually ask them.
- Notes
- 10, one connected series
- With tools
- Qualifying checker, value estimate, redaction demo, channel comparison
- Videos
- Seven short chapters, with transcripts
- Last updated
- Nov 4, 2026
Video series
Selling your company's data to AI, in seven short videos
Watch the series in order, or pick any video from the list. When a video finishes, the next one starts on its own, and the series starts over after the last video.
Video 1 of 7 · 0:47
Introduction: AI companies are buying business data
AI companies are now paying ordinary businesses for their internal records, and some offers have passed $1 million. This video explains what the rest of the series covers.
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How to sell your company's data: who buys it, what it pays and every step
The whole process in one place: who buys company data, what it pays, who qualifies and every step from application to payment.
How much is your company's data worth to AI buyers?
How much AI labs and data vendors pay for company data, what sets the price, and an estimate range for your company.
AI training data: what it is, and why AI companies want your company's data
What AI training data is, how models learn from it, why public data is running short and what company records add.
Does my company qualify to sell its data to AI labs and data vendors?
Data vendors check a company's size, years of records, language, location, software and status; this guide explains each check, with a one-minute checker and the rules for closed companies.
How company data is anonymized for AI training
What counts as PII, why names become consistent stand-ins, what is deleted outright, and how GDPR and CCPA treat the result.
Data licensing: how the deal works, and what to agree to
How licensing differs from selling, the four ways deals pay, and what exclusivity, permitted use, term and deletion mean in the agreement.
Is it legal to sell company data to AI companies?
Who owns what in your records, the app terms and privacy laws that limit a deal, and what a data licensing lawyer reviews.
Where to sell data: AI labs vs. data marketplaces vs. data brokers
AI labs vs. data marketplaces vs. data brokers vs. a database sale: what each buys, what it pays, the work, and who it fits.
Data monetization: models, strategies and how to monetize your data
The six data monetization models, how each makes money, a strategy framework, and the newest model: licensing records to AI labs and data vendors.
Data monetization examples: real AI data deals, with dates and figures
More than 40 dated data monetization examples, from Reddit and News Corp's AI deals to what ordinary and closed companies are paid.
Find and export your data, system by system
Finding your company data in each system, and how to export it
Where Slack, Gmail, Salesforce, QuickBooks and 94 more systems show how much data you hold, who can see it, and how to export the full history.
How to find and export your Slack data for AI training
Where Slack shows your message total, what to know before you apply, and how to export the full history on each plan.
How to find and export your QuickBooks data for AI training
How to count QuickBooks transactions with a report, what the Export data tool leaves out, and what changes on Desktop.
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