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AI companies are paying up to $2M for company data

Developers of AI models license the everyday records of real businesses: process documents, support tickets, CRM notes, project files and years of team email and chat. It is a license, not a sale of your company, so you keep the data and keep using it. Check in three clicks whether your business can apply.

  • Any industry
  • US businesses first
  • UK, Canada, EU and Australia considered

Can your business apply?

Team size
Time in business
Is most of your internal data in English?

Is my business data ready to sell?

Before you approach a data buyer, it pays to know whether anything stands in the way. Answer these twelve questions about ownership, contracts, privacy and how your data is stored, and the checker gives you a clear verdict: ready, nearly ready or not ready yet. Every "no" or "not sure" turns into a specific fix, with the deal-breakers listed first.

Rights and privacy a "no" here blocks a sale
Does your company own the data, rather than your clients or partners?Work done for clients may belong to them under your contracts.
Do your contracts allow you to share anonymized data?Look for confidentiality and data-use clauses.
Can you remove personal details such as names, emails and phone numbers?Automated redaction tools can do most of this.
Is the data free of health, payment card or children's data, or can those be cut out?These have their own strict rules.
Data and preparation
Have you identified trade secrets and confidential client details to leave out?Pricing, formulas, source code under NDA, deal terms.
Can you export the data from the systems it lives in?Not stuck on paper, personal devices or a tool with no export.
Have you already exported a sample from each source?A buyer will ask to see one early on.
Do you have at least two years of records?
Is most of the data written in English?Most buyers want 70 percent or more.
Are records consistent within each source?Same fields, labels and formats throughout.
Can you show where each dataset came from and what was changed?Source system, dates, cleaning steps.
Have the owners or board agreed in principle to license data?

Your fix list

Blockers first, then the other "no" answers, then anything you were not sure about.

    How the verdict is reached

    The checker separates legal blockers from preparation work. Preparation can be done in weeks; a legal blocker stops a sale until contracts or data handling change.

    1. Score each answer

      Yes counts 1, not sure 0.5 and no 0. The meter shows your total out of 12.

    2. Check the four legal questions

      Ownership, contract permission, removing personal details and sensitive data. A "no" to any of them means "Not ready yet", whatever the rest says.

    3. Count the remaining gaps

      With no legal "no", the result is "Ready to sell" when you have at most one other "no" and nothing unsure on the legal side. Otherwise it is "Nearly ready".

    4. Turn gaps into fixes

      Each "no" or "not sure" becomes a concrete step, ordered so blockers come first.

    Questions about getting data ready to sell

    How do I know if my company data is ready to sell?

    It is ready when you can show you own it, your contracts allow sharing it, personal and sensitive details can be removed and the data can actually be exported in a usable form. The first four questions in the checker cover the legal side; any "no" there stops a sale until it is fixed.

    What usually stops a business data sale?

    Ownership and contracts. Many companies discover that client contracts keep data confidential or give the client ownership of work product. Personal data that cannot be removed reliably is the other common blocker, especially in healthcare, finance and HR records.

    Do I need a lawyer before licensing company data?

    For the contract itself, yes. A lawyer should review your client agreements, privacy policy and the license you are offered. You can do the groundwork yourself first: list your data sources, check what you can export and test redaction on a sample.

    What does "not sure" count as?

    Half a point. It is not a blocker, but it is something a buyer will ask about, so the checker lists it in your fix list as something to confirm.

    How long does it take to get data ready to sell?

    If the legal questions are already a yes, a few weeks: exporting, redacting and documenting a sample. If contracts need changing or data is spread across many tools, it can take several months. The sister calculator on this site estimates the hours and cost.

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