AI labs are buying company data like yours
Get paid for the records your business has been making for years, like support tickets, chat threads, CRM history, SOPs and much more. Get paid anywhere from
$100K to $4M+
The frontier AI labs and big tech companies racing for training data
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Google DeepMind
- Meta
- xAI
- Microsoft
- Amazon
- Apple
- NVIDIA
- Mistral AI
- Tinker
- Cohere
- Perplexity
- Reflection AI
- Safe Superintelligence
Video series
Selling your company's data to AI, in seven short videos
Video 1 of 7 · 0:47
Introduction: AI companies are buying business data
AI companies are now paying ordinary businesses for their internal records, and some offers have passed $1 million. This video explains what the rest of the series covers.
The shift
AI has read the whole public internet. What it hasn't seen is how real work gets done: the ticket that led to the fix, the thread that led to the decision, the deal from first call to close. That lives inside companies like yours.
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Two ways to turn work into money
License your own company's data, or refer companies you know and earn $50K+ for each one.
Data partnerships
LiveOwn a company with 30+ staff and years of records? Apply through our link and get a priced offer from micro1 in 1–2 days. Nothing confidential is shared until you sign.
See how it works →Referrals
LiveKnow business owners? Join through us and get your own link. You earn $50K+ for each company you refer, and your full payout stays yours.
Get your referral link →Data from every part of the business can sell
HVAC firms, SaaS companies, manufacturers, agencies. If your team works in software, you're already producing it.
Software & engineering
Code docs, bug tracking, product planning, engineering workflows and knowledge bases.
Finance & accounting
Reconciliations, approvals, reporting workflows, SOPs and month-end processes.
Customer support
Ticket histories, QA reviews, help docs and how issues actually got solved.
Sales & CRM
The full customer lifecycle, from first lead to closed deal, plus playbooks and call notes.
Legal & contracts
Policies, contract workflows, review processes and compliance procedures.
Operations & logistics
Dispatch, fulfillment, inventory, field service and the SOPs behind them.
And much more
Marketing campaigns, product and design work, project management, procurement, training and onboarding, R&D, and the chat and email around all of it. If your team does it in software, ask.
Plus Slack and Teams threads, email, Google Drive, and tickets in Jira, Asana, ClickUp, Monday or Zendesk.
What sets the price
Connected records beat loose documents
Volume matters least. A ticket that links to its fix is worth more than a folder of files nobody can follow. One company's Slack can be worth more than another's Slack, email and calendars combined. Our guide to what company data is worth breaks down each factor.
Connected records
Work you can follow start to finish
Scarcity
Niche industries, unusual tools and workflows
Clean rights
Proof you're allowed to license it
Exclusivity
Reportedly worth several times a shared deal
Years of history
Several years across several systems
Volume
Matters least
Privacy
Sensitive data excluded. Only workflows remain.
Personal details are swapped for consistent stand-ins before anyone outside your company sees them, so conversations still make sense. You don't do the scrubbing yourself. See how company data is anonymized.
You keep ownership, because it's a license, not a sale (how data licensing works). You choose what to leave out (HR, health or legally privileged records), and raw data is deleted on an agreed schedule.
How it works
Weeks from first click to money in the bank. You only describe what you have until there's a signed contract.
Intro call & data manifest
You describe what you have: which apps, how many years, roughly how much. No files change hands.
Priced offer 1–2 days
A specific number based on quality, uniqueness and value, not a range.
Licensing contract
Covers security, personal data and confidentiality. Nothing can be resold until it's anonymized.
Secure transfer 1–7 days
Encrypted, through APIs or approved exports, with progress you can watch.
Payment within 30 days
Paid in full after the data is reviewed and accepted.
Paid once, in full
Your archive (one payment)
One timeA snapshot of the records you already have, anonymized and licensed once. Labs use it as seed data for the worlds their agents train in.
Is your company a fit?
The best fits have been running for years on software their whole team uses. The qualification guide explains each check, with a one-minute checker.
Strong fit
- 30+ employeesIdeally mostly desk staff who work in shared software.
- 2+ years in businessMore history across more systems pays more
- 70%+ of your data in EnglishUS companies first, then other Western markets
- Well-documented operationsSOPs, knowledge bases, CRM records, project histories and QA processes
- Still operating, or shut downClosed companies qualify with 30+ staff at their peak and substantial Slack or Teams history
Not a fit?
If you are not a good fit, fill out this form and we will find you something else.
Tell us about your company and the apps your team uses. We'll look for another buyer and reply within 24 hours.
Questions
Who actually buys the data?
Referrals today go to micro1, which builds training data and agent evaluations for frontier AI labs and has committed $1B to buying enterprise data. Data is licensed only to U.S. and allied buyers. For the other kinds of buyers, see where to sell data.
Do I lose ownership of my data?
No. If your business is operating, it's a license. You keep the data, choose what's excluded, and the buyer deletes raw files on an agreed schedule (at most 180 days).
What does The Corner get out of this?
When a company applies through our link and its data is accepted, micro1 pays us a referral fee. micro1 pays it itself, and nothing in its published terms takes it out of your payment. Ask micro1 to confirm in writing if you want certainty.
Do I have to clean or anonymize anything?
No. The buyer handles anonymization, swapping names, emails and numbers for consistent stand-ins. You agree on the rules and can review samples first.
How fast does it move?
An offer typically arrives 1–2 days after your intro call. Transfer takes 1–7 days, and payment lands within 30 days of acceptance.
Is this legal or tax advice?
No. Before you send anything, have a lawyer check your customer contracts and app terms, and talk to your CPA about how the payment is taxed. Is it legal to sell company data? covers what the lawyer checks.
Info Hub
Guides to selling your company's data
Each guide answers one question an owner asks before applying, with sources for every figure.
How to sell your company's data
Who buys company data, what it pays, who qualifies and every step from application to payment.
Read the guide →What your company's data is worth
How much AI labs and data vendors pay, what sets the price, and an estimate range for your company.
Read the guide →Does your company qualify?
The size, history, language and software checks data vendors run, with a one-minute checker and the rules for closed companies.
Read the guide →How company data is anonymized
What counts as personal information, why names become consistent stand-ins, and what is deleted outright.
Read the guide →How data licensing works
How licensing differs from selling, the ways deals pay, and what exclusivity, term and deletion mean in the agreement.
Read the guide →Is it legal to sell company data?
Who owns what in your records, the app terms and privacy laws that limit a deal, and what a lawyer reviews.
Read the guide →Bottom line
Prices are high now, and won't stay that way
We expect prices to level off as more supply comes online, possibly within a year. If your company has years of connected records, now is the time to find out what they're worth, and one of the data vendors we refer companies to will walk you through it and take care of everything. If you know owners who fit, you can earn $50K or more by introducing them. Just click Become a referral partner.
Not legal, tax or financial advice. Figures come from micro1's published pages and public reporting as of October 2026.
The data is already there. Get paid for it.
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