Buyer profile · Handshake AI

How to apply to Handshake AI

Updated October 25, 2026 · How we research

Before you apply

1. Check you meet Handshake AI's published rules: 20+ employees, 3+ years; accepts operating 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 Handshake AI takes

• Financial models and underwriting workflows
• Design documentation and test reports
• Operating procedures, research and procurement workflows
• Production records and lab protocols
• Project history, product catalogs, technical documentation and issue histories

Handshake AI's process

1. Start a conversation by sharing details about the business
2. Explore the opportunity together
3. Agree on scope and terms
4. Prepare the data
5. Complete delivery and payment

How it pays

unknown: Handshake describes licensing the data; it does not state lump sum versus ongoing payments on the page.

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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