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AI data vendors

Acquire or license company data and supply it onward, mostly to AI labs, on their own account. This page compares the 22 companies we profile.

Last verified November 3, 2026

What an AI data vendor is

An AI data vendor acquires or licenses data from companies and supplies it onward, mostly to AI labs, on its own account. The vendor is the counterparty: you sign with the vendor, and the vendor signs separately with its own customers.

Vendors usually prepare the data themselves. They extract it, remove personal and customer details, and package it into datasets, training tasks or environments that their customers use to train and evaluate models.

How it pays

Most vendors pay a fixed license fee once the data is delivered and accepted. Some add a revenue share on later sales or offer recurring payments for refreshed data. The vendor earns the difference between what it pays you and what its customers pay it, and that figure is not normally disclosed to the seller.

Companies compared

Every value below is as published or reported, with its source. "Not published" means we found no figure. Open a profile for the full record.

CompanyWhat they buyPriceDeal structureStatus
AfterQueryEmail, Chat, Tickets, CRM, Support, Finance, Industry systems and legacy tools[1]Code, Financial models, CAD designs[2]Not publishedLicense; seller sets scope (teams, systems, time window); payment followed by an 'ongoing partnership'[1]Active (Data Partnerships announced Oct 23, 2026)[2]
AppenOperational documentation, Decision & escalation records, Systems of record[3]Not publishedDefined licence for a defined use; no ownership transfer[3]Active[3]
CentificEmail; Calendar; Slack/Teams; Docs/wiki (Word, Docs, Drive, SharePoint, Confluence, Notion); Project management (Jira, Asana); CRM; Support tickets; Finance/ERP; HR/people systems (e.g., Workday); Data warehouses; Health records (claims and revenue-cycle work, care coordination, de-identified clinical documentation)[4]Not publishedLicense (seller never hands data over)[4]One-time sale; most partners then move to an optional quarterly refresh that becomes a recurring line[4]Active[4]
Collinear AICode, Slack/Teams, Email, Docs/wiki, CRM, Project management/tickets, Support tickets, Payments/finance (Stripe), Design files (Figma), Database dumps[5]Not publishedLicensing agreement granting Collinear rights to use the data; one-time export[5]Active[5]
HalluminateCompany data and workflows (unspecified)[6]Private-equity deal documents (anonymized documents from actual PE transactions used in its Westworld Finance Diligence Bench; how they were obtained is not stated)[7]Not publishedNot publishedActive[6]
Handshake AISlack, Email, Docs/wiki, Finance/ERP, Design/CAD, HR/payroll, Field service, Project management[8]Documentation, Workflows, Project history[9]$100K to $4M+[8]Data license[8]Active[10]
LabelboxCRM (Salesforce), Tickets (Jira), Slack, ERP (SAP), CAD, Financial workbooks[11]Support tickets, Health records, Robotics telemetry, Code (IDE session logs), Video, Images, Audio[11]Smaller targeted datasets typically start around $50K; large enterprise partnerships can reach $1M+; specialized streams can exceed that range[11]License: upfront fee plus revenue share on downstream use[11]Active[11]
MercorSlack/Teams, Email, Docs/wiki, CRM, Code, Drive[12]Not publishedLicense; Mercor packages data and pays the company[12]Active[12]
micro1Internal communications, SOPs, Project histories, CRM, Support tickets, Other business documentation[13]$100K-500K (qualified enterprise data partnerships); $500K-2M (large-scale operational datasets or participation across multiple teams); $2M+ (highly unique, proprietary operational data)[13]Headline: "$200k-2M+"[13]Payment step: typically $150K to over $2M[13]License, not sale; Licensee (micro1) acquires no ownership of the Data[14]Active[15]
ModeEmail, Calendar, Docs/wiki, Slack/Teams, Call recordings, CRM, Finance/ERP[16]Email, Docs/wiki, Slack/Teams, CRM, Finance/ERP[16]Company data could be worth $100K–$5M[16]Calculator estimate is illustrative only[16]Mode buys the agreed, filtered copy directly; the agreement defines its scope and any exclusivity[16]Active (program announced October 13, 2026)[17]
NyneFinance/ERP, CRM, Support tickets, Scheduling/project management[18]Slack/Teams[19]Email, Calendar[19]Docs/wiki[19]CRM, HR, Finance/ERP, Support tickets[19]Partnerships are commonly worth $100K or more[18]Six-figure payouts[19]Will beat a qualifying written offer for the company's operational data; comparison covers the same eligible dataset, licensing rights, payment conditions and required work[20]Paid under a licensing agreement whose scope, rights and acceptance criteria are agreed up front[18]Active[18]
Ooak DataDocs/files (reports, contracts, presentations); Project management; CRM/sales; Financial records; Product analytics; Internal wikis; Code[21]Up to $1M[21]Closed deals to date from $20K to several hundred thousand dollars[21]License (anonymized dataset retained for the licence term)[21]Active[21]
PolysharesSlack/Teams, Drive/SharePoint, Email, CRM, Support tickets, Design files, Call recordings, Finance/ERP[22]Typical deals run $100K to $2M and above[23]A license to defined operational data; non-dilutive (no equity, no debt)[23]Active[23]
pre.devCode, Git history, Pull requests/code reviews[24]Not publishedLicense (lab-facing licenses non-exclusive by default)[24]Active[24]
ReplayCode and commits, Internal docs, Decision threads, CRM data, Financial records, Sales conversations, Support history, Presentations, Product logs, Analytics[25]$10K–$100K (20–50 employees); $100K–$1M (50–250 employees); $1,000,000+ (250+ employees)[25]License offer, typically an upfront cash payment plus a perpetual revenue share[25]License, not a sale; nothing is transferred[26]Seller liability capped at the fees paid[26]Active[25]
Scale AICRM, HR, ERP, Support tickets[27]$10K–$1M+ illustrative value per data partnership, scaling with cadence[27]Continuous partnership, not a one-time file transfer[27]Active[27]
Snorkel AINot publishedNot publishedNot publishedExploring (staffing a new data-partnerships function to source private data)[28]
SuperAnnotateSlack/Teams, Email[29]Docs/wiki[29]Support tickets, Approvals/audit trails[29]Domain records (inspection reports, equipment logs, specs, claims files, pricing/catalog histories)[29]Video (screen recordings of multi-step tasks)[29]Docs/wiki, Support tickets, Approvals, Transcripts, Archives, Recorded tasks[29]$100K – $1M+ (indicative valuation range)[29]Licensing of rights for a set period, not a sale; payment based on what the data is worth to buyers[29]Active[29]
Surge AICompany data archives (Surge's RL-environments lead compares the value of Slack history with Slack, email and calendars) (reported)[30]Not publishedNot publishedActive (buying data archives, as reported)[30]
Telegraph LabSlack/Teams, Email, CRM, Support tickets, ERP records, Docs/drives, CAD, Code[31]$100K–$4M target licensing opportunities, subject to data review and agreed terms[31]License; business keeps its original files and ownership[31]Active[31]
The General Data CompanyEmail archives, Order and project files, Quotes and costings, Scanned folders[32]Support tickets, CRM, Inspection and maintenance records, Order and stock system exports, Complaints and credit notes[32]CAD/technical drawings, Change requests, Commissioning records[32]Not publishedNot publishedActive[32]
TuringChat, Email, Tickets, Docs/wiki, CRM, Support history, Databases, Code[33]Not publishedNon-exclusive license; Turing is the only seller for the first 90 days after signing, then the seller can renew or opt out[33]Active[33]

What to check before you sign

  • Who removes personal and customer details, when, and whether it happens before the data leaves your systems.
  • Whether the license is exclusive or perpetual, and for how long you are blocked from licensing the same records again.
  • The field of use, and whether the vendor may resell or sublicense the data, and to whom.
  • When you are paid and what acceptance condition has to be met first.
  • Whether raw copies are deleted after delivery, by when, and with what written confirmation.

This is general guidance, not legal advice. Your counsel should review any license before you sign.

Sources

  1. Data Partnerships: License Your Company's Data - AfterQuery, afterquery.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement)
  2. Announcing Partnerships for Business Data - AfterQuery, afterquery.com. Published October 23, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement)
  3. Enterprise Data for Frontier AI Models | Appen, appen.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement)
  4. Enterprise Data | Centific, centific.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement)
  5. Data licensing for founders and operators | Collinear AI, collinear.ai. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement)
  6. Data Partnerships | Halluminate, halluminate.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement)
  7. Westworld Finance Diligence Bench | Halluminate, halluminate.ai. Published August 11, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement)
  8. Get started | Form | Handshake AI Data Partnerships, joinhandshake.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement)
  9. Data Partnerships | Get Paid for Your Data | Handshake AI, joinhandshake.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement)
  10. Introducing Handshake AI Employer Data Partnerships | Handshake, joinhandshake.com. Published October 20, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement)
  11. Prism — Real-world data for advancing frontier AI, prism.labelbox.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement)
  12. Mercor Data | Enterprise Workflow Data for Frontier AI, mercor.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement)
  13. Monetize your company's operational data, micro1.ai. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement)
  14. Data License Master Terms, micro1.ai. Published October 30, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement)
  15. micro1 announces commitment to spend $1B on enterprise data acquisition over the next 12 months, micro1.ai. Published October 9, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement)
  16. Get Paid $100K–$5M For Your Operational Business Data | Mode, data.mode.inc. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement)
  17. Mode.Inc Launches $5 Billion Enterprise Data Monetization Initiative to Help Businesses & Nonprofits License Data to Leading AI Companies (Business Wire release via Yahoo Finance), finance.yahoo.com. Published October 13, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company press release)
  18. Sell Your Company Data to AI Companies | Nyne.ai, nyne.ai. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement)
  19. Data partnerships | Nyne.ai, nyne.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement)
  20. Nyne Offer Qualification Terms | Company Data Licensing, nyne.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement)
  21. Partner with us | Ooak Data, ooakdata.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement)
  22. Sell your company's operational data | Polyshares, polyshares.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement)
  23. Polyshares | A data lab that buys operational data, polyshares.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement)
  24. pre.dev Labs: RL Tasks and Codebases for AI Labs, pre.dev. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement)
  25. Replay | Data as Growth Capital, replay.ai. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement)
  26. Replay | Data Privacy, replay.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement)
  27. Data Partnerships | Scale AI, scale.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement)
  28. Director, Data Partnerships - Snorkel AI (Greenhouse), job-boards.greenhouse.io. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company job posting)
  29. Data Partnerships | SuperAnnotate, superannotate.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement)
  30. AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models (MIT Technology Review), technologyreview.com. Published October 13, 2026. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (press)
  31. License Your Business Data | Telegraph Lab, telegraphlab.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement)
  32. Sell or license your operational data | The General Data Company, thegeneraldata.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement)
  33. Project Lazarus | Turing, lazarus.turing.com. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company statement)

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