How to Sell Data is a handbook on licensing a company’s operational data to AI buyers. We write for owners and operators of companies with roughly 30 to 500 employees who want a plain answer before they talk to a buyer or a lawyer.
What the site covers
AI labs need data they can’t scrape: how real companies actually run. Data companies pay operating businesses to license their records, such as SOPs, support tickets, CRM history and project files. The business sells a license and keeps its data.
Our pages cover how licensing company data works, whether it is legal, who buys it and how to prepare it. Our guide to AI training data buyers compares the buyers we know of, and a separate review covers the buyer this site refers companies to.
What we are not
We don’t work for any buyer of company data and we don’t speak for one. We are also not a law firm, an accountant or a broker, and we don’t negotiate or sign data deals for anyone. We explain how licensing works so you can ask better questions of the people who do.
How the site is funded
We refer companies whose records may qualify to an AI data buyer through a referral link. The buyer pays us a referral fee only after a company we refer has its data transferred and approved. That is how the site is funded, and you pay us nothing. The disclosure page explains the arrangement.
How we write
- Figures carry a source and a date. Numbers about buyers and deal sizes come from the buyers’ own published material or from named press coverage. Anything that can change carries “as of November 2026”.
- Legal statements link to the official source. We cite the statute, regulator or agency. Where rules vary by state we say so and point you to the state agency.
- Examples are labeled. A hypothetical example starts with “Example:”. We don’t publish invented statistics, quotes, testimonials or case studies.
- Gaps are stated. When we can’t verify a claim, we leave it out or say we couldn’t verify it.
- Pages are dated. Each page shows when it was last updated, and we revise a page when a buyer’s terms or the law change.
Corrections
If you spot a mistake, or a buyer changes its terms, tell us using the contact line on our privacy page. We correct errors and update the date on the page.
Our other guides
How to Sell Data is published by Ingenious Digital LLC, which also publishes these guides:
- Data Value Talk (datavaluetalk.com): what a company’s data is worth to AI buyers.
- Closing Business Checklist (closingbusinesschecklist.com): the checklist for closing a business, in order.
- Winding Down Guide (windingdownguide.com): notices, final pay, creditor routes and records for larger companies.
Each guide covers its own topics and has its own disclosure and privacy pages.
Next steps
If you are new to the topic, start with how to sell your company’s data to AI companies, which walks through the process from ownership check to payment.