Training frontier AI models to work inside companies, navigating real tools, workflows and decisions (Mercor's explanation of why labs want the data)[1]
Price and payment
Price and payment: Mercor
Price
Not published
Pricing basis
Based on data volume, tools connected and depth of data[1]
Payment timing
Wire on delivery of the anonymized dataset to the buyer, typically 2-4 weeks after signing[1]
Seller fees
None; Mercor covers extraction, anonymization and transfer costs[1]
Platform's cut
Not published
Referral bounty
Not published
Deal terms
Deal terms: Mercor
Deal structure
License; Mercor packages data and pays the company[1]
Exclusivity
Not published
Term
Not published
Field of use
Not published
Onward transfer
No AI lab buyer or third-party vendor ever sees the raw data[1]
Seller keeps ownership
Not published
Privacy and data handling
Privacy and data handling: Mercor
De-identification
Extraction and anonymization process is fully automated[1]
Fully automated extraction and anonymization; no AI lab buyer or third-party vendor sees raw data; engineering team does not manually review data; all access logged[1]
Process
Process: Mercor
Steps
Connect: link accounts from 100+ supported tools
Process: platform extracts and de-identifies data into an asset
Typically 2-4 weeks from signed agreement to payment[1]
Sample before offer
No data leaves the seller's systems until the seller approves it[1]
How to start
Choose from 100+ supported tools and link accounts[1]
Who they sell to
Who they sell to: Mercor
Sells to
Frontier AI labs (not named on the program page)[1]
Track record
Named deals
Spirit Airlines data auction: alternate (backup) bidder behind Google (Aug 2026) (reported)[3]
Offered to buy or license Warmly's code base and task records after Warmly agreed to be acquired by HubSpot (an offer, per The Information) (reported)[4]
Coverage
RuntimeWire: Mercor offers up to $100K for companies willing to license data to AI labs; Foody says Mercor has partnered with more than 500 companies (reported)[5]
Mercor courting shuttered startups for Slack/Jira archives (reported)[4]
Watch for
March 2026 security incident via LiteLLM supply-chain attack (confirmed by Mercor)[6]
Several plaintiffs filed class-action lawsuits in California federal court on April 1 over an alleged data breach affecting Mercor (HR Dive, Apr 13 2026) (reported)[7]
Hausfeld LLP and Hall Attorneys filed a putative class action in N.D. Cal. on April 21, 2026 on behalf of individuals whose personal information may have been compromised (reported)[8]
Spirit Airlines privacy ombudsman wants to examine Mercor's security incident if the court considers Mercor instead of Google (reported)[3]