Guides

Plain answers to the questions owners ask before licensing company records.

• Does my company qualify?A plain checklist for whether your company's internal records are likely to interest AI data buyers, and what usually rules a company out.
• Does your company actually own the data it wants to license?Before licensing business records to AI companies, check what you have the right to license: contracts, NDAs, employee data and software terms.
• Exclusive or non-exclusive?What exclusive and non-exclusive licenses mean for your company data, what each one costs you, and what to check before agreeing to exclusivity.
• How do employee and customer privacy rules affect licensing company data?How privacy laws such as California's CCPA affect licensing employee and customer records to AI companies, and what to check before you agree to anything.
• How do referral fees work, and how is this site paid?How referral and introducer fees work in AI data licensing, how this site is paid, and what to confirm with a buyer about your own payment.
• How do you compare two offers for your company data?Put two AI data licensing offers side by side: amount, payment timing, exclusivity, scope, de-identification, deletion, liability and payment terms.
• How do you prepare a data inventory before talking to buyers?A plain-English checklist for listing your company's systems, record types, date ranges and restrictions before talking to AI data buyers.
• How does de-identification work?What de-identification means for business records licensed to AI buyers: removing names and identifiers, its limits, and the legal standards.
• How long does it take to license company data?Typical stages and published timelines for licensing business records to AI buyers, from first call to payment, and what slows a deal down.
• Is my company too small to license its data?Small team, lots of records? Why buyers ask about headcount, why your peak employee count is the number to give, and how high data volume can qualify a small company.
• Is this offer legitimate?How to check an unfamiliar data buyer or introducer: who signs, who pays, entity checks, references, and why raw data waits for a contract.
• Licensing or selling: what is the difference?The difference between licensing your company records to an AI buyer and selling them outright: ownership, control, term, payment and risk.
• Upfront payment or revenue share?How one-time payments and revenue-share deals for company data compare: certainty, upside, reporting, audit rights and what to ask.
• What can be excluded?What companies commonly keep out of an AI data license: HR files, regulated data, legal advice, trade secrets, customer data and more.
• What is a data sample, and should you share one?What a data sample is, why AI buyers ask for one, what goes in it, and how to share a sample without exposing private or confidential records.
• What is my company's data worth?The factors that drive what AI buyers pay for internal business records: headcount, years, systems, depth, uniqueness and company status.
• What should you ask a buyer before licensing your company data?Questions to ask any company offering to license your business records for AI training, covering rights, privacy, payment and deletion.