Can you sell your company data to AI companies?
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Short answer: Yes. AI labs and the data companies that supply them pay to license anonymised copies of real company work data: documents, email, team chat, code, support tickets and CRM notes. Deals typically run from about $100k for a 20-person company with 3 years of history up to around $2M for larger firms. You keep the original data, the copy is anonymised before it leaves your environment, and you can turn down any offer.
Why do AI companies want to buy company data?
Large language models have already been trained on most of the public web. What they are short of is real professional work: how a contract actually gets negotiated, how a support ticket gets resolved, how a financial model gets built and reviewed. That work lives inside companies, not on the internet.
AI labs use it to train and evaluate models that do professional tasks. Because few companies sell yet, good datasets are scarce and buyers compete for them.
What kinds of company data can you sell?
Almost any record of real work has value. Ranked roughly by what buyers pay per employee-year:
- Code repositories: commits, pull requests and code review threads.
- Documents and reports: memos, analyses, contracts, decks.
- Financial records: ledgers, forecasts and models.
- Workflow and process logs: how work actually moves through the company.
- Support tickets: customer issues and how they were resolved.
- Email, CRM records and team chat (Slack, Teams).
Expert industries earn a premium. Healthcare, legal and financial services data is worth the most, followed by insurance, software and consulting. See how much company data is worth.
How does selling company data work?
- Get a valuation. Enter your website in the data value calculator. It estimates value from your industry, headcount, years of history and the data types you hold.
- Anonymise it. The pipeline runs inside your environment, so raw data never leaves. It removes names, client names, credentials and exact figures, then drops any record that could still be re-identified. You approve a sample. More in how anonymisation works.
- Hear from buyers. Deal teams from the buyers that fit your data contact you directly with offers. Pick one or walk away.
Do you lose ownership of the data?
No. You license an anonymised copy, not the original. Your systems, clients and staff are untouched. Some buyers ask for a period of exclusivity on what they receive; they set those terms out in their offer.
Who is this for?
- Active companies looking for new revenue from an asset already sitting on their servers.
- Companies winding down that want value from their archives before systems are switched off.
- Closed companies, where archived data can still return money to creditors or shareholders. See selling data when a company shuts down.
Frequently asked questions
Who buys company data?
AI labs and the data companies that supply them. They need real examples of professional work such as drafting, analysis, code review and support resolution.
How much can I get for my company data?
Roughly $100k for a 20-person company with 3 years of typical data, rising to around $2M for large firms in expert industries. Each buyer makes a firm offer after reviewing an anonymised sample.
How long does it take to sell company data?
The estimate takes about a minute. After anonymisation and your sample review, buyers usually make offers within a few weeks.
Is it legal to sell company data?
Generally you are licensing an anonymised copy of data your company owns, under an agreement that limits how the buyer can use it. Client contracts or confidentiality terms can restrict some data, so those are checked first.