Buyer profile · Telegraph Lab

How to apply to Telegraph Lab

Updated October 25, 2026 · How we research

Before you apply

1. Check you meet Telegraph Lab's published rules: no minimum published; 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 Telegraph Lab takes

• work chat and email, including attachments
• CRM exports, support tickets and ERP records
• company drive files such as documents, spreadsheets, CAD and code
• operating records such as databases, scans and reports

Telegraph Lab's process

1. Tell Telegraph about your business (short form, then follow-up)
2. Review the opportunity: dataset, rights, sensitive data, preparation
3. Agree terms: scope, permitted uses, price, payment milestones
4. Prepare and deliver the agreed copy

How it pays

upfront: a licensing payment with price and payment milestones set in a signed written agreement; no revenue share is described. Payment timing: Not published; payment milestones are set in each agreement.

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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