A handful of companies now pay businesses to license their internal records — email, chat, tickets, CRM history, documents and code — to train AI. Their criteria differ more than their marketing suggests. This page sets them side by side, using what each buyer publishes about itself.
Checked October 28, 2026. Programs change often; check the buyer’s own page before you rely on any detail. Participating buyers may pay us referral fees. Read the disclosure.
“Not stated” means the buyer’s page doesn’t say. It doesn’t mean there is no requirement.
| Criterion | micro1Company Data Partnerships | MercorMercor Data | SimpleClosureAssetHub · marketplace |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company status | Operating companies | Not stated | Built for companies winding down; the page does not say whether that is required |
| Company size | 30+ full-time employees | Not stated | Not stated |
| Company age / history | No minimum stated; several years of records across multiple systems is a stronger fit | Not stated | Not stated |
| Geography | US first, then other Western markets; demand strongest in the US, UK and Canada. Records primarily in English | Not stated | Not stated |
| Industries | Any industry | Legal; healthcare; finance and insurance; professional services; manufacturing; retail and e-commerce; real estate; logistics and supply chain | Not stated |
| Records they want | Internal communications, SOPs, project histories, CRM records, support tickets, other business documentation | Data from 100+ supported tools, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Gmail, Outlook, Confluence, Salesforce, GitHub, Google Drive and Notion | Source code and workspace data: communications, documents, designs, tickets and workflows, including from tools like Slack and Notion |
| How data is handed over | micro1 de-identifies the data (no need to anonymize first); transfer through its APIs or other approved methods; you can review representative samples | You connect your accounts; extraction and anonymization are automated; Mercor says no data leaves your systems until you approve it | Every dataset is processed for personal information before it is licensed to a buyer |
| How payment works | One payment within 30 days of data acceptance; tiers published on micro1’s page | Based on data volume, the tools you connect and the depth of your data; paid by wire on delivery of the anonymized dataset | Not stated |
| Source | micro1’s own page | Mercor’s own page | SimpleClosure’s own page |
This is a young market and it is moving fast. A company that fits a program today may not fit next quarter, and what a buyer offers can change while you wait.
Demand for companies’ internal records appeared suddenly last year, as AI labs ran into the limits of public and synthetic data.
Buyer quotes vary widely. There are no published benchmarks for what this data is worth, so prices rest on each buyer’s own research bets.
Reporting expects prices to settle over the coming year as the market matures.
Some budgets have an end date: micro1 announced its buying program in October 2026 as a 12-month commitment.
Company Data Partnerships
Licenses operational data from established companies and de-identifies it to build training environments for AI agents.
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Mercor Data
Pays companies for real-world workflow data, extracted and de-identified from the tools they already use, for frontier AI research.
AssetHub
A marketplace from a company that helps startups wind down. It sells or licenses code and workspace data to a network of buyers rather than buying it itself.
These companies have been reported as buyers, but we haven’t been able to confirm a program on their own sites, so they aren’t in the table.
Reported to acquire operating records from live and winding-down companies, including code, chat, email, documents and support history. We could not find Turing’s own program page.
Buys workplace archives to build training environments for AI agents, and wants records that show disagreements and judgment calls.
Won the bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines’ business records, ahead of Mercor. The sale had not been approved by the court as of our check, and micro1 filed a competing bid.
Reported to be pitching law firms on licensing their historical operational records to AI labs.
Check you’re allowed to share it.
Customer, vendor and employment contracts can restrict what you license, even after de-identification.
Think about the people in the records.
Email and chat archives describe employees and customers. Buyers say they remove personal information, but you should know what goes in.
Compare more than one program.
Criteria, handover methods and payment terms differ. A company that doesn’t fit one buyer may fit another.
Get the terms in writing.
Exclusivity, how long the license runs, deletion and who the data can be passed to all belong in the contract.
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