Guides for owners licensing company data to AI
20 plain guides for company owners: what your records are worth, how the price is set for each tool and industry, what happens to your data when you shut down, and how to keep employees and customers private. Every number has a source and a date.
Basics
- AI data partnership programs: who runs them, what they pay (2026)
Which AI companies run data partnership programs for businesses in 2026, what each publishes about pay, size limits and terms, and how to choose.
5 min readUpdated - Dark data: the old records in your inboxes and drives that AI labs now pay for
Dark data is the 55% of company data that goes unused, per a 2019 Splunk survey. Why AI labs now pay for old email, chat and files, with 2026 examples.
5 min readUpdated - How to sell company data to AI labs: a step-by-step guide (2026)
From first question to payment: who buys company records for AI, what to prepare, how offers and payment work, and the mistakes to avoid.
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Prices
- How much is your company's data worth to AI labs? (2026 prices)
Published AI buyer ranges for company records mostly run $100K to $2M in 2026. Real deals by company size, what moves the price, and sources.
6 min readUpdated - Your company's records and your business valuation: cash without selling the company
Records rarely count in a business valuation, but a license can bring separate cash: $110,000 to $450,000 in one buyer's 2026 case studies.
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Tools
- Sell your Slack data to AI: what it is worth and how to export it (2026)
AI buyers pay for de-identified Slack history. Reported offers run from about $15K to $1M. What Slack lets you export by plan, and what to leave out.
7 min readUpdated - What are your support tickets and Jira issues worth to AI labs? Zendesk, Jira, ServiceNow, Linear
AI buyers rank resolved tickets with full history among the most useful company records. How to count and export Jira, Zendesk, ServiceNow and Linear data.
6 min readUpdated - What is your company's email archive worth to AI labs? Gmail and Outlook (2026)
AI buyers license de-identified business email as part of a wider record, with published ranges from $100K. How to count and export Gmail and Outlook mail.
6 min readUpdated - What is your CRM data worth to AI labs? HubSpot and Salesforce (2026)
AI buyers license de-identified CRM history: deals, stages, notes and activity. How to count and export HubSpot and Salesforce data, and the privacy rules.
6 min readUpdated - What is your Microsoft 365 data worth to AI labs? Teams, Outlook, SharePoint and OneDrive
AI buyers license de-identified Teams chats, Outlook mail and SharePoint files. How to count them in the admin center and export with Purview eDiscovery.
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Industries
- Can an accounting firm license its data to AI labs? What it is worth and what the rules allow
AI buyers want accounting firm workflows. Broker-reported deals run $280K to $350K. Section 7216 and the AICPA rule limit what client data you can include.
6 min readUpdated - What is a field service company's data worth to AI labs? HVAC, plumbing, roofing, electrical, solar
AI buyers pay trades companies for work orders, dispatch notes and quotes. Reported figures run about $150K to $450K. What sells and what to keep out.
6 min readUpdated - What is a logistics company's data worth to AI labs? Freight, 3PL and distribution (2026)
AI buyers license rate quotes, dispatch notes, exceptions and claims from logistics firms. Broker-reported deals run $350K to $1.2M.
5 min readUpdated - What is a manufacturing or engineering company's data worth to AI labs? (2026)
Mercor lists $100K to $1.5M for manufacturers with 20 to 2,000 staff. What sells (work orders, inspections, CAD), and the customer and ITAR rules.
6 min readUpdated - What is a marketing or creative agency's data worth to AI labs? Client work, contracts and IP
AI buyers license agency briefs, revisions, design files and SOPs. One buyer reports paying an agency $110K. What you own, what clients own, what to skip.
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Shutting down
- Sell your startup's codebase to AI labs: prices, buyers and checks (2026)
What AI buyers pay for a private startup codebase in 2026, what makes code valuable, how to remove secrets, and the IP checks to do before you sell.
5 min readUpdated - Sell your startup's data before you shut down: what closed companies get paid
Closed startups have been paid $10K to $100K, sometimes more, to license Slack, email and code. When to do it in a wind-down, who buys, and what to keep.
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Privacy and legal
- Data licensing agreement for AI: the terms to check before you sign
A plain-English guide to AI data licensing agreements: exclusivity, term, permitted use, de-identification, deletion, payment, warranties and liability.
7 min readUpdated - How de-identification works for company data licensed to AI
What gets removed from company records before AI training, how tools and human review do it, a before and after example, and the risk that remains.
6 min readUpdated - Is it legal to sell your company's data to AI? Ownership, employees and privacy law
When licensing company records to AI is allowed: who owns them, employee and customer data, contracts, GDPR and CCPA basics, and what to leave out.
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