Polyshares vs Troveo
Both pay companies for internal business records used to train AI. The main differences on their published terms are below; the real answer comes from putting both offers side by side.
Key differences
- They pay differently: Polyshares: pays a one-time amount for your records; Troveo: pays you a share of each sale of your records.
Side by side
| Polyshares | Troveo | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Pays a one-time amount for your records | Pays you a share of each sale of your records |
| Who qualifies | No minimum published | No minimum published |
| Accepts | operating | operating |
| How it pays | upfront: Polyshares is the buyer and pays the company for a license to defined data; no equity or debt is involved. | revenue-share: as of October 2026 the page says the company shares in the revenue from every sale of its licensed dataset, not only the first; no percentage is published. |
| Published range | Typically $100K to $2M paid to the company, with more possible for large or long records. The buyer's figure, not an offer. | The page says AI buyers pay six figures for company data exports and shows an example totaling $850,000 across four sales, marked as illustrative with actual terms set per partnership. The buyer's figures, not an offer. |
| When it pays | Offer within one to two weeks of intake; payment net 30 to 60 days after the data is approved, shared and anonymized. | Not published. The page mentions a fast first sale with no schedule. |
| Exclusivity | Perpetual and exclusive. Each of the four closed licenses on its track-record page is described as a "perpetual exclusive license to the operational record". Its data handling page says licenses are exclusive by default unless agreed otherwise; its home page describes "defined material for a defined term". | not stated |
| Data handling | A specialist outside privacy partner removes names, emails, phone numbers, account numbers and addresses before Polyshares or any lab sees the record. Polyshares reviews an anonymized sample before pricing. Data a company holds on behalf of its own clients is excluded. Labs never learn the company's identity, and Polyshares does not disclose which labs receive which records. | Troveo says it removes names, contact details, credentials and client identities to one documented standard and records the package in a manifest. It does not connect to your systems; it guides your team through an export. The company is not named publicly, and buyers are introduced confidentially only after an agreement. Ownership stays with the company. |
| Good fit if | You want a single buyer to pay a fixed licence fee for a defined set of records, with a stated timeline and no commission. | You want an agent to market an anonymized copy of your records to several AI buyers and are comfortable being paid as a share of each sale instead of a single fixed price. |
You can apply to both at once. Nothing you submit commits you, and two offers make it easier to judge either one. See comparing offers.
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Polyshares: We may be paid: this buyer pays us a referral fee if a company we sent signs. You pay us nothing. Among buyers that fit your answers, buyers that pay us are shown first.
Troveo: We may be paid: this buyer pays us a referral fee if a company we sent signs. You pay us nothing. Among buyers that fit your answers, buyers that pay us are shown first.
Sources
- Polyshares - Data licensing, accessed 2026-10-15
- Polyshares - Home, accessed 2026-10-15
- Polyshares - Answers (FAQ), accessed 2026-10-15
- Polyshares - Data handling, accessed 2026-10-15
- Polyshares - Is selling company data legal, accessed 2026-10-15
- Polyshares track record, accessed 2026-10-20
- Troveo - License your business data, accessed 2026-10-15
- Troveo - Business data assessment, accessed 2026-10-15