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Buyer profile · The General Data Company

How to apply to The General Data Company

Updated October 25, 2026 · How we research

The General Data Company licenses anonymized operating records, mainly from industrial and manufacturing firms, and supplies them to AI labs and manufacturers. You apply on The General Data Company's own site. Below: who qualifies, what to prepare, and how its process works, from its own pages as of 2026-10-25.

Before you apply

  1. Check you meet The General Data Company's published rules: no minimum published; accepts operating, 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.

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What The General Data Company takes

  • Email archives
  • Order and project files, quotes and scanned folders
  • Complaints and credit notes
  • Inspection and maintenance records
  • CRM histories
  • Order and stock exports
  • Technical drawings and CAD models
  • Change requests and commissioning records

The General Data Company's process

  1. Describe your records (formats, scope, content)
  2. Sign a confidentiality and data-processing agreement; operator reviews a sample and your rights
  3. Agree scope, uses, recipients and payment in writing
  4. Operator prepares, anonymizes and checks the data, then delivers

How it pays

unknown: payment and scope are agreed in writing per deal and paid by milestones; the page does not say whether it is upfront or revenue share. Payment timing: Paid according to milestones agreed in the written contract.

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?

Apply to The General Data Company

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Sources

  1. The General Data Company - Data partnerships, accessed 2026-10-15
  2. The General Data Company - Referral section, accessed 2026-10-15
  3. The General Data Company - Terms, accessed 2026-10-15
  4. The General Data Company - Legal notice, accessed 2026-10-15
  5. The General Data Company - Data licensing, accessed 2026-10-15