Guides
Guides for owners weighing a data license
What your records are worth, what the law allows, and how a deal is structured. Every figure is sourced and dated.
- Can a law firm license its data to AI labs?Rule 1.6, ABA Formal Opinions 480 and 512, privilege and what a US law firm could license to AI buyers, with the buyers that accept small firms.Updated 2026-10-19
- Can an accounting firm sell its data to AI labs? What section 7216 allowsIRC 7216 consent, the AICPA confidentiality rule and GLBA: what a US accounting firm can license to AI labs, what needs client consent, and who buys.Updated 2026-10-30
- Can you sell your company's data to AI companies?Yes, in most cases. How selling company data to AI labs works in the US: what sells, size floors, prices, legal checks, risks and the steps, as of Oct 2026.Updated 2026-10-23
- How do AI data partnership programs compare, and how do they pay?How AI data partnership programs pay companies that sell or license their records, as of Oct 2026: upfront plus revenue share, fixed sums, per sale.Updated 2026-10-19
- How do seller-side data advisors work?The four routes to license company data to AI labs, who pays each middleman, typical fees from 6% to 30%, and what a seller-side advisor does.Updated 2026-10-17
- How do you de-identify support tickets and email before licensing them?What counts as de-identified under the CCPA and HIPAA, where personal data hides in email and tickets, who removes it and how to check a sample.Updated 2026-11-03
- How much is company data worth?Published buyer bands, disclosed deals and what moves the price for US company records licensed to AI labs, with every figure sourced and dated.Updated 2026-10-17
- Is it legal to sell company data to AI?A plain-English guide for US owners on licensing company records to AI labs: contracts, privacy law, employees, privilege and a ten-step checklist.Updated 2026-10-17
- Our company is shutting down. What should we do with the data?Before a closing company deletes its Slack, email and code, check whether the records can be licensed. Buyers, fees and steps for US founders.Updated 2026-10-17
- Selling your company soon? How a data license affects M&A due diligenceA data license will come up in M&A due diligence. What a buyer's counsel checks, which clauses carry over to the acquirer, and what to keep on file.Updated 2026-10-27
- Should our data license be exclusive or non-exclusive?How exclusivity, license term and upfront versus revenue-share payment work when you license company data to AI labs, clause by clause.Updated 2026-10-17
- Someone offered to buy our company data. Is it a scam?How to check an unsolicited offer for your company's data: who the buyer is, who pays the middleman, the 48-hour deadline and the red flags.Updated 2026-10-17
- What do AI labs want from company records?Why AI labs pay for email, tickets, documents and code from real companies, which records buyers ask for, and what they turn down.Updated 2026-10-17
- What's in an AI data licensing agreement?What a data licensing agreement covers when you sell company data to an AI lab: scope, use, deletion, payment, warranties and indemnity.Updated 2026-10-20
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