Data licensing
AI labs are paying to license companies’ internal records — emails, chat messages, documents, support tickets and project files — to train their own AI. We help companies under financial pressure, and companies already in a proceeding, understand what their data could be worth and apply to license it. The buyer pays us. The company never does.
Free · About three minutes · Nothing shared
Choose where the company stands. About ten short questions give you an indicative value range, the recommended buyer and the next steps.
AI labs are building systems to do everyday business work. To train them, they need real examples of that work being done.
Public websites rarely show how a business actually runs. A company’s own records do. Take a customer complaint: it arrives by email, becomes a support ticket, is discussed by the team in chat, and ends with a manager approving a refund. Years of records like these, across thousands of cases, show an AI how real decisions get made.
That is what labs, and the data companies that supply them, are paying for. One buyer alone has committed $1 billion over the next year to licensing company records.
The buyer licenses a copy of the records for its own use. After signing, the company’s only task is to give the buyer access to its systems. The buyer does everything else: it copies the data, removes personal details and uses it to train its own AI. The company is paid for the licence and has no further role.
After signing
To the systems that hold the records, so the buyer can take a copy. The company's systems stay as they are, and its staff keep working.
The buyer copies the records and removes personal and identifying details.
It turns the records into practice tasks for its AI, based on real requests and decisions.
Its AI practises those tasks until it can do similar work.
Buyers pay more for records that show a lot of real work, come from connected systems, and won’t be licensed to anyone else.
Labs want data their competitors can't use.
Worth less: Licensed to several buyers
Worth more: Licensed to one lab only
More people over more years means more work on record.
Worth less: 10 people over 2 years
Worth more: 150 people over 10 years
Records that link across systems show a whole piece of work.
Worth less: Email only
Worth more: Email, chat and tickets that refer to each other
Buyers value discussion and decisions most.
Worth less: Automated notifications and newsletters
Worth more: Discussions, escalations and decisions
Buyers name some industries as targets.
Worth less: Hospitality, general retail
Worth more: Software, finance, legal, healthcare
Buyers license English-language records today.
Worth less: French
Worth more: English
Deleted records can't be licensed.
Worth less: Systems shut down, partial exports
Worth more: Systems still running, full history
The company applies to the buyer and signs with it directly. We explain the options and help with the application.
Answer a few questions on this site. You'll see an indicative value range for the company's data.
We explain what buyers look for, what the company's data could be worth, and how the process works. There's no cost and no commitment.
The company applies to the buyer directly, through our introduction. We help prepare the application: what to include, how to describe the records, and what the buyer is likely to ask.
The buyer reviews the application and samples of the records, then makes a detailed offer.
The company signs a contract directly with the buyer and gives it access to the systems that hold the records. From then on, the buyer does all the technical work. Its team and lawyers decide how the data is anonymized and what can be used.
The buyer pays the company as the contract sets out, usually once the data is delivered or accepted. It pays our fee separately.
The company keeps
The records remain the company's property.
The company keeps using its records exactly as before. Nothing is removed from its systems.
The company can review samples of the records before anything is used.
Unless the licence is exclusive, the company can license the same records to another buyer.
The buyer receives
The right to use a copy of the records, on the terms of the contract.
No other lab gets the same records. Most labs want this and pay more for it.
The buyer uses the records to train and test its own AI. The company has no role in that work.
The buyer copies, anonymizes and prepares the records itself, at its own cost.
The licence
A copy of the company's internal records, showing how its work actually gets done. Typically that includes:
The buyer removes personal details and turns the records into practice tasks for its AI, based on how the company's staff handled real work. The AI is the buyer's own. The company has no role in that work and is paid for the licence.
Only to give the buyer access to the systems that hold the records, so it can take a copy. The buyer does all the technical work, at its own cost.
Data companies that license company records and supply the leading AI labs. One has committed $1 billion over the next year to licensing company data, and buyers offer $100K to $2M+ for approved data packages. We introduce the company to the buyer offering the best value for its records.
Most labs want an exclusive licence: the records go to one lab only, so its competitors can't use the same data. That is why exclusive licences pay more.
A non-exclusive licence lets the company license the same records to more than one buyer, usually for less each time. Either way, the company keeps ownership and keeps using its data.
Working with Proceedings
Yes. The company applies to the buyer directly, through our introduction, and signs with the buyer directly. Before that, we explain the options, help prepare the application, and answer questions through to signing.
Nothing. The buyer pays Proceedings a percentage of what the company receives, separately from what it pays the company. Before anything is signed, we tell you who pays us and how our fee is calculated.
The buyer. Copying and anonymizing the records are its responsibility, and its lawyers decide what can be used. That is written into the company's contract.
Yes. What you tell Proceedings stays with us. It goes to the buyer only when the company decides to apply.
Value and timing
The buyer sets the final figure after reviewing the records. Our estimate is a guide. It places the company in a range based on what buyers look at: how many people, over how many years, in how many connected systems, in which industry and language, and whether the licence is exclusive.
Published buyer tiers start at $100K for qualified companies, rise to $500K+ for large datasets, and reach $1M+ for highly unique data.
The estimate takes minutes, and a first conversation can happen this week. The buyer's review and offer usually take a few weeks. Payment follows signing, usually once the data is delivered or accepted.
Buyers are licensing English-language records today. So that the estimate doesn't overstate what the company could receive, it counts only the English share. We'll update it if that changes.
We'll explain the options and how the process works before the company commits to anything. It costs the company nothing.
Facts and summaries are extracted automatically from the court filings linked on each page; the filings remain the authoritative record. Suggested corrections are reviewed against the source filings.