{"name":"Frontier Desk AI-data buyer index","description":"Published terms of AI-data buyer programs that license a company's operating records. One row per program, each with a primary source URL, a verbatim quote and a check date.","source":"https://www.frontierdesk.ai/data-buyers","cite_as":"Frontier Desk, Frontier Desk AI-data buyer index, checked 2026-11-05, https://www.frontierdesk.ai/data-buyers","checked_on":"2026-11-05","count":11,"programs":[{"program_key":"handshake_ai","program_name":"Handshake AI data licensing","operator":"Handshake","program_url":"https://joinhandshake.com/ai/data-partnerships/license/","what_it_buys":"Records from more than a thousand integrated sources, including AutoCAD, Dropbox, Figma, Gmail, Google Drive, Outlook, Monday.com, NetSuite, Notion, Paychex, Quickbooks, ServiceTitan and Slack.","stated_range":"$100K to $4M+ payouts","range_low_usd":100000,"range_high_usd":4000000,"range_is_open_ended":"true","minimum_size":"20+ full time employees","years_required":"3+ years in operation","geography":"not stated","payment_trigger":"not stated","exclusivity":"not stated","deidentification":"Buyer-side: all data is scoped, de-identified, and confidential.","export_method":"Integrations with more than a thousand sources.","source_url":"https://joinhandshake.com/ai/data-partnerships/license/","source_quote":"$100K to $4M+ payouts ... 20+ full time employees & 3+ years in operation ... This is an indicative estimate only and is not an offer to purchase your data.","checked_on":"2026-10-30"},{"program_key":"micro1","program_name":"micro1 Company Data Partnerships","operator":"micro1","program_url":"https://company.micro1.ai/register/?referralCode=7e8bec60-788c-4234-80aa-336123f65c7e&utm_source=referral&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=job_referral","what_it_buys":"Operating records across the systems a company already runs: engineering and source-code documentation, finance processes and reconciliations, support tickets and QA, CRM and sales playbooks, legal and contract workflows, operations and logistics SOPs.","stated_range":"$200k-2M+ headline; $100K-500K, $500K-2M and $2M+ by tier; payments typically $150K to over $2M","range_low_usd":100000,"range_high_usd":2000000,"range_is_open_ended":"true","minimum_size":"30+ full-time employees","years_required":"several years of records across multiple business systems","geography":"US first, then the United Kingdom and Canada; U.S. and allied buyers only","payment_trigger":"Paid in full within 30 days of acceptance; payment within 30 days of invoicing.","exclusivity":"Commits not to resell or distribute the data until personal and identifying information has been anonymized. Exclusivity itself is not stated.","deidentification":"Buyer-side: personal and identifying information is removed or transformed before the data is shared.","export_method":"Secure transfer through micro1's APIs or other approved methods.","source_url":"https://www.micro1.ai/data-partnerships","source_quote":"We're paying out $200k-2M+ for the data your business already generates ... established companies with 30+ full-time employees ... payments typically ranging from $150K to over $2M","checked_on":"2026-10-30"},{"program_key":"polyshares","program_name":"Polyshares data licensing","operator":"Polyshares","program_url":"https://polyshares.com/signup?ref=97abaa7ca16129f9f0f2bbcaec72a1f3","what_it_buys":"Slack and Teams, Drive and SharePoint, email, CRM history, support tickets, design files, call recordings, accounting and ERP exports.","stated_range":"Typically $100K to $2M, paid by us to the company","range_low_usd":100000,"range_high_usd":2000000,"range_is_open_ended":"false","minimum_size":"not stated","years_required":"not stated","geography":"not stated","payment_trigger":"Net 30 to 60, once the data has been approved, shared, and anonymized.","exclusivity":"Exclusivity is not stated. The page says the company is not listed anywhere and that there is no marketplace, listing or auction.","deidentification":"Buyer-side: identifying fields are stripped as part of preparing the data, handled before anything moves.","export_method":"not stated","source_url":"https://polyshares.com/data-licensing","source_quote":"Typically $100K to $2M, paid by us to the company. ... Net 30 to 60, once the data has been approved, shared, and anonymized.","checked_on":"2026-10-30"},{"program_key":"replay","program_name":"Replay data licensing","operator":"Replay","program_url":"https://www.replay.ai/","what_it_buys":"Code and commits, decision threads, financial records, support history, product logs, presentations, CRM data, sales conversations, internal docs and analytics.","stated_range":"$10K - $100K for 20-50 employees; $100K - $1M for 50-250; $1,000,000+ for 250+","range_low_usd":10000,"range_high_usd":1000000,"range_is_open_ended":"true","minimum_size":"20+ employees (the lowest stated band)","years_required":"not stated","geography":"not stated","payment_trigger":"Paid for historical data first, up front, with a revenue share on every later license; new data follows the same path.","exclusivity":"Exclusivity is not stated. The page says data is only sold to frontier AI and data labs, never to foreign adversaries and never resold through brokers.","deidentification":"Buyer-side: every category of identifying information is removed, from names and emails to customer records and account numbers.","export_method":"Replay exports the data.","source_url":"https://www.replay.ai/","source_quote":"$10K - $100K [20-50 employees] ... $100K - $1M [50-250 employees] ... $1,000,000+ [250+ employees] ... Replay presents an offer to license your data. These are typically structured as an upfront cash payment plus a perpetual revenue share.","checked_on":"2026-10-30"},{"program_key":"scale_ai","program_name":"Scale AI Data Partnerships","operator":"Scale AI","program_url":"https://scale.com/data-partnership","what_it_buys":"Table schemas and structured records from data warehouses, chat histories, email threads and calendar events, file contents with metadata, tickets and project records, and CRM, HR and ERP records. Employee and customer identities, raw systems, credentials and source access are excluded.","stated_range":"$10K-$1M+ illustrative value per data partnership, scaling with cadence","range_low_usd":10000,"range_high_usd":1000000,"range_is_open_ended":"true","minimum_size":"40+ employees is the preferred starting point, assessed case by case","years_required":"years of records in the tools the teams already run on","geography":"not stated","payment_trigger":"Not stated. The page says partnerships are designed so there is opportunity for recurring revenue.","exclusivity":"not stated","deidentification":"Buyer-side, inside the company's own environment: PII is stripped and records are processed before any data is extracted.","export_method":"Connectors to warehouses, chat, email, files, work management and business platforms, with on-prem and VPC options and per-package approval gates.","source_url":"https://scale.com/data-partnership","source_quote":"$10K-$1M+ illustrative value per data partnership, scaling with cadence ... 40+ employees is our preferred starting point — though we assess every partnership on a case-by-case basis.","checked_on":"2026-10-30"},{"program_key":"sourcex","program_name":"SourceX data licensing","operator":"SourceX","program_url":"https://refer.sourcex.si/r/5dcc17df78d9","what_it_buys":"Business operating records licensed directly from companies for AI training and evaluation: email, documents, messaging, CRM, support, workflow and multi-step work records across systems the company already runs.","stated_range":"Estimated licensing payout based on company size (for example $30K–$180K for 50–99 employees); exact payout fixed in a signed Dataset Deal Confirmation","range_low_usd":30000,"range_high_usd":180000,"range_is_open_ended":"true","minimum_size":"50+ full-time employees at peak (contractors excluded); smaller companies with unique data can still qualify","years_required":"several years of operating history","geography":"U.S. priority; also Canada and the EU. UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, South Africa, Latin America, UAE and Saudi Arabia can qualify when at least 70% of data is in English","payment_trigger":"After Closing the supplier invoices SourceX; payment due within 60 calendar days after a valid invoice unless different terms are signed","exclusivity":"Licenses are exclusive for AI training: the company agrees not to license the selected data to anyone else for that purpose; term set in Dataset Deal Confirmation","deidentification":"Buyer-side: SourceX de-identifies through approved processing routes before use or share","export_method":"Approved processing route for extraction, secure transfer and de-identification; packaged exports also accepted","source_url":"https://sourcex.si/faq","source_quote":"Best suited to companies with 50+ full-time employees at peak (contractors excluded) and several years of operating history. ... We also work with companies in Canada and the EU. Companies in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, South Africa, Latin America, the UAE and Saudi Arabia can qualify when at least 70% of their data is in English. ... After the fit check you'll see an estimated licensing payout based on company size (for example $30K–$180K for 50–99 employees).","checked_on":"2026-11-05"},{"program_key":"turing_lazarus","program_name":"Turing, Project Lazarus","operator":"Turing","program_url":"https://lazarus.turing.com/","what_it_buys":"How the team communicated (threads, channels, decision context), how the work got built (source code, reviews, tickets, iteration history), how the business ran (wikis, runbooks, schemas) and how decisions were made.","stated_range":"up to $1M","range_low_usd":null,"range_high_usd":1000000,"range_is_open_ended":"false","minimum_size":"not stated","years_required":"not stated","geography":"not stated","payment_trigger":"One payment. No retainer, no recurring commitment.","exclusivity":"not stated","deidentification":"Buyer-side: personal data and secrets removed before anything reaches a model; de-identified before training.","export_method":"not stated","source_url":"https://lazarus.turing.com/","source_quote":"up to $1M ... One payment. No retainer, no recurring commitment.","checked_on":"2026-10-30"},{"program_key":"grepped","program_name":"Grepped","operator":"Grepped","program_url":"https://www.grepped.ai/","what_it_buys":"Messages, docs, tickets, code and records from Slack, Teams, Gmail, GitHub, GitLab, Google Drive, SharePoint, Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, QuickBooks, Xero, Zendesk, Asana and ServiceNow.","stated_range":"Up to 6 figures per workspace","range_low_usd":null,"range_high_usd":null,"range_is_open_ended":"","minimum_size":"not stated","years_required":"not stated","geography":"not stated","payment_trigger":"Get paid in as little as 7 days.","exclusivity":"not stated","deidentification":"Buyer-side: customer names, contact details and identifying information are stripped before anything leaves processing.","export_method":"Read-only workspace connections.","source_url":"https://www.grepped.ai/","source_quote":"Up to 6 figures per workspace ... Get paid in as little as 7 days","checked_on":"2026-10-30"},{"program_key":"mercor","program_name":"Mercor data monetization","operator":"Mercor","program_url":"https://mercor.com/data","what_it_buys":"Workspace messages and threads, email messages and metadata, CRM accounts and opportunities, repositories and issues, workspace pages and databases, sorted by industry: legal, healthcare, finance and insurance, professional services, manufacturing, retail, real estate and logistics.","stated_range":"not stated","range_low_usd":null,"range_high_usd":null,"range_is_open_ended":"","minimum_size":"not stated","years_required":"not stated","geography":"not stated","payment_trigger":"Wire transfer on delivery of the anonymized dataset to the buyer, typically within 2-4 weeks of the signed agreement.","exclusivity":"not stated","deidentification":"Buyer-side: the extraction and anonymization process is fully automated.","export_method":"More than a hundred supported tools are connected to the platform.","source_url":"https://mercor.com/data","source_quote":"Compensation is based on data volume, the tools you connect, and the depth of your data. ... Payment is issued via wire transfer upon delivery of the anonymized dataset to the buyer. This typically occurs within 2-4 weeks of the signed agreement.","checked_on":"2026-10-30"},{"program_key":"nyne","program_name":"Nyne","operator":"Nyne","program_url":"https://nyne.ai/","what_it_buys":"Licensed business data reached through an identity graph, including financial records and accounting workflows, product workflows and interaction traces, and maintenance and operational records.","stated_range":"not stated","range_low_usd":null,"range_high_usd":null,"range_is_open_ended":"","minimum_size":"not stated","years_required":"not stated","geography":"not stated","payment_trigger":"not stated","exclusivity":"not stated","deidentification":"Anonymization requirements are reviewed for each dataset and licensed use; data using stable pseudonyms still requires privacy safeguards.","export_method":"not stated","source_url":"https://nyne.ai/","source_quote":"Nyne is a research and data company connecting AI labs with human expertise and licensed data through an identity graph of 2.2B people and 380M businesses.","checked_on":"2026-10-30"},{"program_key":"troveo","program_name":"Troveo business data","operator":"Troveo","program_url":"https://www.troveo.ai/business-data","what_it_buys":"Chat and messaging, email and calendar, documents and files, work and knowledge tools, CRM, sales and support, business platforms, finance and operations, data and code, and internal or custom systems.","stated_range":"not stated as a per-company range; the dollar figures on the page are a worked example and a licensor total","range_low_usd":null,"range_high_usd":null,"range_is_open_ended":"","minimum_size":"not stated","years_required":"not stated","geography":"not stated","payment_trigger":"A first sale, then a share of revenue on later licenses.","exclusivity":"not stated","deidentification":"Buyer-side: names, contact details, credentials and client identities are scrubbed under one documented standard.","export_method":"No OAuth into the company's systems and nothing to install; Troveo guides the export.","source_url":"https://www.troveo.ai/business-data","source_quote":"A fast first sale, then more to come — you share in the revenue on all of them. ... No OAuth into your systems. No platform to install. We guide you through the export.","checked_on":"2026-10-30"}]}