How to find and export your RingCentral data for AI training

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What is RingCentral data, and why do AI labs and data vendors buy it?

What a RingCentral account records

RingCentral is a cloud phone service, and its main business plan is called RingEX. A company's phone system gives each employee an extension (an internal number for one person or one line) and can route incoming calls through a call queue, a waiting line that hands callers to the next free employee.

The call log is the list of every call, with its direction (in or out), its length, the extension or queue that answered and the result. A call can also be recorded in two ways. Always-on recording captures every call automatically, and on-demand recording starts only when a person presses record.

Why a recorded phone call teaches an AI model something

An AI model learns by studying a very large number of examples and finding the patterns in them, and those examples are called training data. Public text rarely contains a customer asking for a quote, a dispatcher rescheduling an appointment or a billing question being untangled. A recorded call contains all of these, and a written transcript turns the speech into text that a model can study directly.

AI labs now want to train AI agents, software that carries out a job step by step, and an agent learns a job from records of that job being done. A data vendor can turn anonymized calls into worked examples that an agent studies like an answer key. The full mechanism is in AI training data: why AI companies want your company's data.

The call log adds structure around each recording. It ties the audio to the direction, the length, the person or queue that answered and the outcome, so a buyer can tell a short missed call from a long, successful one.

How RingCentral fits into a dataset

RingCentral is one of several apps in a company's dataset, which usually also includes email, documents and tickets. Companies are paid $100K to $2M or more per dataset, according to micro1, the data vendor we typically refer companies to. The price covers the whole dataset, not each app on its own, and what your data is worth explains what moves it.

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Where does RingCentral show how much data you have?

How to count your recorded hours

The steps below turn the call log into a total of recorded hours, which is the unit that matters for phone audio. Each step names the menu you need.

1. Log in to RingCentral as an administrator, open the dropdown in the top-right corner and pick Admin Portal.
2. Open Analytics & Logs > Call Log. It opens on the past seven days, so pick a longer range in the calendar field (Last 30 days or Last 60 days) or set custom dates.
3. Click the Detailed tab. Every row gives the length of one call, and a recording appears in the Recording column when audio exists that you can listen to or save.
4. Click Download and save the Call Log as a CSV file (a plain spreadsheet file). Count the rows that have a recording for your recording count, and add up their durations to get seconds of recorded audio.
5. For company-wide figures, open the Analytics portal. Its Company Numbers report gives totals like handle time and average call length, and its Performance Reports break results down by user or queue.

The call log screen and its download options are described in RingCentral's guide to viewing and managing your call log. Only the view on screen is downloaded, so set your filters and date range first.

Who can open it, and which plans include analytics

The call log needs an Admin Portal administrator role with access to the company call log, such as Super Admin. A regular user sees only their own call history.

Why the log cannot show the whole life of the account

According to RingCentral's data retention policy, most accounts hold the call log for a year (365 days), and some hold it for only nine months. Recordings are kept for 90 days, with a cap of 100,000 always-on recordings per account. Anything past those limits no longer exists in RingCentral, so the diagram shows what you can still reach with and without a backup.

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What should you know about your RingCentral data before you apply?

The hours of recorded calls

Add up the duration of every call marked as recorded in the call log download, then divide the seconds by 3,600 to get hours. Because RingCentral keeps recordings for 90 days and stores at most 100,000 per account, this figure covers about the last three months unless you have used Archiver. If Archiver has been running, add the hours of audio already saved in your Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Smarsh or SFTP storage.

The years of history

The years of history start on the date your company first signed up with RingCentral, not on the date of the oldest log entry, because the call log reaches back only 12 months. That date appears on early invoices, and your RingCentral account team can confirm it.

The number of seats

A seat is a licensed user with a RingEX line. Shared devices, fax numbers and call queues are not seats, so leave them out of the count.

What you don't need to do first

You don't need to export anything to apply, and you don't need to clean or scrub an export. Applying through micro1, the data vendor we typically refer companies to, shares no data, and the vendor anonymizes the records before anyone else sees them. Nothing moves until a lawyer-reviewed license is signed. The application, the intro call and each later step are laid out in how to sell your company's data.

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How do you export your RingCentral call history and recordings?

Who can export

The person exporting must be an Admin Portal administrator who has been given permission to see the company call log. A custom role must be granted the call log permissions for recordings and downloads before it can pull them.

Exporting the call log and recordings: the steps

1. In the Admin Portal, go to Analytics & Logs > Call Log, set the date range and choose the Detailed view. Work one month at a time if the range is large.
2. Click Download, tick Call Log and save the CSV file.
3. From the same download options, tick Recorded Calls to save the recordings for the calls in view as MP3 files, then click Download again.
4. Repeat for each month until the range is covered.

Backing up continuously with Archiver

Archiver is a RingCentral add-on that copies communications from RingCentral into storage you control. It is offered to RingEX Advanced and Ultra customers, as the Archiver page says, and it copies call recordings, voicemails, texts and faxes.

1. In the Admin Portal, go to More > Account Settings > Archiver Settings and turn on Admin Archiver. The Super Admin and Manager roles can then archive for the whole company.
2. Open More > Apps and Resources > Archiver and connect Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Smarsh or an SFTP server (a file server reached over a secure connection).
3. Select call recordings for all extensions.

Archiver copies records from the time you set it up, so start it before the history you want is removed. The Archiver questions page advises archiving to outside storage to avoid data loss. RingCentral support can confirm how far back it will reach on your account.

Pulling everything in one go with the API

For one large pull, a developer can write a script that asks the Call Log API for the list of calls and then fetches each recording from the link attached to it. An API is a way for software to request data directly, without anyone clicking through menus. RingCentral throttles recording downloads under a separate request limit, so a bulk pull should be spread over time instead of sent all at once.

Limits and retention to know before you start

Nothing past those limits can be recovered, which makes it worth starting Archiver or a routine download well before you need the history. RingCentral does not publish a time estimate for a download, so splitting a large range into monthly pulls keeps each file manageable.

Sources: RingCentral Support, RingCentral data retention policies, the Archiver questions page, RingCentral Archiver and the article on viewing and managing your call log in the Admin Portal. Steps checked against these pages in November 2026.

05

What stays private when RingCentral data is licensed?

You choose what is in scope

The company decides which extensions, call queues and date ranges are exported, so lines such as HR or legal can simply be left out. Because the download is built from the filters you set, nothing outside them is included.

Names and numbers are replaced before a lab sees them

Anonymization means replacing every detail that identifies a person, such as a name, a phone number or an email address, with a stand-in that is the same every time it appears. A call still reads in order, so a lab can learn from it, but it no longer says who was speaking. The data vendor also deletes records too sensitive to clean safely instead of anonymizing them. The method, including how you review samples, is in how company data is anonymized for AI training.

Ownership and payment

Licensing gives the buyer limited rights to a copy, while the company keeps ownership of the originals. The terms that matter, such as exclusivity, permitted use and deletion, are covered in data licensing. micro1 pays in full within 30 days of accepting the data, usually as a single payment.