A staffing firm's records are mostly about people, which decides everything.
Requisitions, submissions, interview notes, placements and what happened next. The matching judgement is valuable; the candidate data it sits in is personal data with its own rules.
Example engagement
ExampleAn illustration of a firm of this kind, not a client and not a transaction. No figure here is a price; the published figures on this page are the buyers' own, and each one links to the page it came from.
- Headcount
- 35 to 90 people
- Years of records
- 11 years of records
- Tools it runs on
- An applicant-tracking system, a CRM, a job-board stack, a back-office or payroll system and email.
- What is in them
- Requisitions and the intake behind them; submission and interview records; placement outcomes and tenure; client feedback on candidates; rate and margin history.
- Route options
- 1Keep them and sell them with the companyThe records stay inside the company and count toward what a buyer pays for it. Nothing is licensed now.
- 2License a defined sliceOne buyer licenses records you choose, from a set period, for a set term or use. You keep the records and the right to license them again.
- 3Train a model of your ownYour team fine-tunes an open-weight model on your own records, in systems you control. The trained weights belong to the company, and the records never go to a lab.
- 4Sell the company to a buyer that prices the records inAI-enabled roll-ups and strategic buyers now pay for companies whose records and workflows they can put to work. The records are part of what they buy.
What buyers publish
Checked Nov 5, 2026
Published per-company figures
$10K to $4M+
The span of what 7 programs publish for a company like yours.
These are the programs' own advertised figures. None of them is an offer, and no buyer has seen your records.
Where these come from
- Handshake AI data licensing $100K to $4M+ payouts
- micro1 Company Data Partnerships $200k-2M+ headline; $100K-500K, $500K-2M and $2M+ by tier; payments typically $150K to over $2M
- Polyshares data licensing Typically $100K to $2M, paid by us to the company
- Replay data licensing $10K - $100K for 20-50 employees; $100K - $1M for 50-250; $1,000,000+ for 250+
- Scale AI Data Partnerships $10K-$1M+ illustrative value per data partnership, scaling with cadence
- SourceX data licensing Estimated licensing payout based on company size (for example $30K–$180K for 50–99 employees); exact payout fixed in a signed Dataset Deal Confirmation
- Turing, Project Lazarus up to $1M
Every program, with its terms and its source
Fifteen to twenty minutes on what these figures mean for your records, your rights and the rest of your plans.
What changes in this line of work
Almost every record here is about an identifiable person, so the governing documents are the candidate privacy notice and whatever consent was collected, not just the client contract. De-identification by the buyer does not cure a consent that never covered this use. Where a licence does work, it is usually the firm's own structured judgement rather than the candidate record underneath it.
What decides whether you may license at all
The candidate privacy notice and consent language, state privacy law in every state the firm recruits in, and the client contracts covering submissions. This vertical rewards getting the rights answer before the price conversation.
Where to go next
- Work through your own records
The same questions, answered for your firm: whether the records are ready, which route fits your plans, and the range the published figures support.
- Already hold an offer?
Paste it. You get a note on the figure against what buyers publish, the payment trigger, exclusivity, export and retention.
- Every buyer, with its terms
One row per program: what it buys, what it publishes, a quote from its own page and the day we read it.