Buyer profile · Defined.ai

How to apply to Defined.ai

Updated October 25, 2026 · How we research

Before you apply

1. Check you meet Defined.ai's published rules: no minimum published; accepts operating, closing, closed companies.
2. List your systems, years of history and who can export each one. The data inventory worksheet helps.
3. Confirm the records are yours to license and note what must stay out (HR, legal, customer data held under contract, regulated data).
4. Decide in advance whether you would accept an exclusive license, and for how long.

Get the free data inventory worksheet

What Defined.ai takes

• audio, video, image, text and multimodal data
• in-demand types: cinematic video, anime-style media, coding datasets, STEM content

Defined.ai's process

1. Create an account on the partner portal
2. Market research on commercial opportunities
3. Review of data quality, volume, organization and metadata
4. Ethics, licensing rights, legal and security review

How it pays

revenue-share, partners earn licensing fees from marketplace sales; terms vary by dataset and are agreed with the partner.

Questions to ask before you sign

• Who signs the agreement with us, and in which state is that company registered?
• When exactly are we paid, and what has to happen first?
• Is the license exclusive? For how long, and for which uses?
• Who de-identifies the records, where, and can we review a sample of the result?
• What happens to the copy when the license ends?

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