Market intel
What’s changing in the market for company data.
New buyer programs, court-supervised sales, changing terms and the reporting worth reading — dated, sourced and written for owners deciding whether and how to license their records.
- buyer programs in our index
- 17
- set no industry requirement
- 7
- accept a 20-person company, or set no size minimum
- 14
- don’t rule out companies that have closed
- 14
Analysis
Who’s buying company data: October 2026
Eight more programs joined our buyer index this month. Their size and history criteria are converging; their terms are not.
ReadAnalysis
The Spirit Airlines records sale is still unsettled
The first court-run sale of a company’s workplace records to an AI buyer goes to a hearing on November 6, with employee data at the center of the objections.
ReadReading · MIT Technology Review
AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
The clearest account so far of why AI labs want companies’ working records, and why there are no price benchmarks yet. Prices rest on each buyer’s own research bets.
Reading · The Next Web
micro1 commits $1bn to buy company data for training AI agents
micro1 announced its buying program as a twelve-month commitment. Some budgets in this market have an end date.
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