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The General Data Company
Builds training data, evaluations and RL environments from industrial companies' operational records, for AI labs and for those companies. Recorded here: its published terms for buying data and what it sells, in its own words.
San Francisco, USAthegeneraldata.comLatest record 15 Oct 2026
How The General Data Company buys data
The General Data Company, data partnerships page, 15 Oct 2026- What it wants
- Company archives (projects, correspondence, orders, technical documentation), operational processes (complaints, inspection and maintenance records, tickets, order and stock exports) and expertise (drawings, CAD models, change requests, commissioning records).
- What it publishes about price
- No figure published; scope, uses, recipients and payment are set out in writing.
- Who it takes
- Industrial companies, including companies that are no longer trading. It does not take current designs, prices or anything a competitor could use.
- How the holder is paid
- "Payment follows the agreed milestones." No file moves before a signed agreement.
- Who removes personal data
- It replaces names, companies, addresses and identifiers with invented ones using its own model, a person checks the result, then the link to the real names is deleted.
- What it pays for an introduction
- Up to $50,000 when a data partnership is signed, under a written referral agreement; the amount depends on the size of the partnership.
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What The General Data Company sells
In its own words, read on its own site 15 Oct 2026. On the vendor register
- What it sells
RL environments: “The General Data Company builds reinforcement learning environments for AI labs from real industrial workflows” thegeneraldata.com
Datasets: “Decades of real operational data that never reached the internet, from drawings and change orders to quality reports, service histories and tenders.” thegeneraldata.com
Evaluations and benchmarks: “Evaluation sets are held-out, never-published document tasks for benchmarking extraction, reasoning and agent workflows.” thegeneraldata.com
- Where its data comes from
Licensed from its owners: “From companies that agreed to it in writing.” thegeneraldata.com
The client's own data: “A model trained on your company’s own history, running in your own cloud.” thegeneraldata.com
- Buys data from owners
In its words: “Companies license records they no longer need through our data partnerships” thegeneraldata.com
- Areas its pages name
- Business work
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AIData.Broker, “The General Data Company in the AI training data market”, reviewed 15 Oct 2026. https://aidata.markets/companies/general-data
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