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  "dataset": "AI data brokerage log",
  "description": "Dated records of buyer programs, transactions, price ranges, referral terms and broker economics in company-data sales.",
  "reviewed": "2026-10-17",
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "covers": "our compilation of the tables",
    "excludes": "quotes keep their sources' terms, and article text is not covered"
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      "termsText": "CEO Piers North says Reach has sent OpenAI 'the next stage in the legal process' and that OpenAI is one of the parties it needs to bring to the table. Digiday reports the publisher has seen well over 100 million successful scrapes of its content across its portfolio in six months (per Reach). Reach says it is in talks with Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft; its Google deal is time-limited.",
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      "source": "https://digiday.com/media/reach-ceo-touts-google-ai-deal-as-a-template-steps-up-pressure-on-openai-over-scraping/",
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      "sourceDate": "2026-10-16",
      "quote": "says it has sent OpenAI a cease-and-desist letter as it steps up pressure on AI firms using its content without a deal"
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      "valueText": "around $50K to $1M+",
      "termsText": "Upfront licensing fee at signing plus a revenue share on downstream use; no dollar amount for either. Prism states $100M+ distributed to date and 1k+ companies licensing (self-reported).",
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      "source": "https://prism.labelbox.com/",
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      "sourceDate": "2026-10-16",
      "quote": "with smaller targeted datasets starting around $50K and large enterprise partnerships reaching $1M+."
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      "id": "2026-10-nyne-price-range",
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      "valueUsd": null,
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      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://nyne.ai/sell-company-data/",
      "sourceLabel": "Nyne (sell company data page)",
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      "quote": "Depending on the type and amount of data available, partnerships are commonly worth $100K or more."
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      "id": "2026-10-humxn-price-range",
      "date": "2026-10-16",
      "kind": "price range",
      "party": "HUMXN Research Labs",
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      "counterparty": "company owners",
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      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://humxn.io/sell-company-data",
      "sourceLabel": "HUMXN",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-16",
      "quote": "Operational data deals for a single company typically start around $250,000 and run into the millions for large archives."
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      "party": "HUMXN Research Labs",
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      "unit": "cap per deal",
      "valueText": "10% of the deal, up to $100,000 per deal",
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      "source": "https://humxn.io/partners",
      "sourceLabel": "HUMXN referral partners",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-16",
      "quote": "Introduce a company that holds data, we handle the valuation, the offer and the contract, and you earn 10 % of the deal, up to $100,000 per deal."
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      "id": "2026-10-mode-price-range",
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      "valueLowUsd": 100000,
      "valueHighUsd": 5000000,
      "unit": "per company",
      "valueText": "$100K to $5M",
      "termsText": "Indicative payout range on its public page (undated, read 2026-10-16). The release says payment varies with the amount and type of eligible data.",
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      "sourceDate": "2026-10-16",
      "quote": "Your company’s data could be worth $100K–$5M."
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      "party": "Polyshares",
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      "unit": "per licence",
      "valueText": "$100K to $2M and above",
      "termsText": "Home page, undated, read 2026-10-16. It states it is the buyer, charges the owner nothing and pays net 30 to 60 days after delivery.",
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      "source": "https://polyshares.com/",
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      "sourceDate": "2026-10-16",
      "quote": "Typical deals run $100K to $2M and above."
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      "counterparty": "AI labs (unnamed)",
      "dataType": "operational record of a roofing company (home services)",
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      "unit": "per perpetual exclusive licence",
      "valueText": "$450,000",
      "termsText": "Anonymous case study, undated page read 2026-10-16. No seller or lab confirms it.",
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      "sourceLabel": "Polyshares case studies",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-16",
      "quote": "Home services $450,000 Roofing company Perpetual exclusive license to the operational record. Anonymized before delivery."
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      "party": "Troveo",
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      "unit": "per export, typical",
      "valueText": "six figures",
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      "source": "https://www.troveo.ai/business-data",
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      "sourceDate": "2026-10-16",
      "quote": "AI labs and startups are actively paying six figures for company data exports."
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      "id": "2026-10-datarade-broker-economics-bronze",
      "date": "2026-10-16",
      "kind": "broker economics",
      "party": "Datarade",
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      "counterparty": "data providers",
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      "unit": "per year plus commission",
      "valueText": "$6,000 a year and 20% commission",
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      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://providers.datarade.ai/apply",
      "sourceLabel": "Datarade provider application",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-16",
      "quote": "Bronze Most popular Start your journey $6,000 / year + 20% commission Apply now"
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      "id": "2026-10-pre-dev-price-range",
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      "kind": "price range",
      "party": "pre.dev",
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      "counterparty": "developers and companies with private repositories",
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      "unit": "per repository, example non-exclusive licence",
      "valueText": "$6,000 for the example repository; source code $100 and git history $40 per million tokens",
      "termsText": "Earnings calculator on its code-licensing page (undated, read 2026-10-16); the example repository grades are illustrative. Paid net 15 after funds land.",
      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://pre.dev/",
      "sourceLabel": "pre.dev",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-16",
      "quote": "What you'll earn $ 6,000 per repo non-exclusive licence, paid Net 15 after funds land Source $ 100 /M tokens 20 M tokens Git history $ 40 /M tokens 100 M tokens"
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-defined-ai-price-range",
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      "party": "Defined.ai",
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      "valueText": "$600K+ average partner revenue; $1M+ for 5+ partners",
      "termsText": "Partnerships page, undated, read 2026-10-16; the page also states 319% year-over-year growth in dataset sales.",
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      "source": "https://www.defined.ai/partnerships",
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      "sourceDate": "2026-10-16",
      "quote": "319% YoY growth in dataset sales $600K+ Average partner revenue $1M+ Revenue for 5+ partners"
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      "counterparty": "ordinary people and professional actors licensing their faces",
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      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per use or per project, in yuan",
      "valueText": "100 to 500 yuan per AI short video for ordinary people; several thousand up to 10,000 yuan for professional actors; highest single listing 6,000 yuan (elderly man)",
      "termsText": "Platforms select from collected portraits and pay per usage or per project; prices follow demand by gender, age and style. Platforms are not named in the article.",
      "basis": "reported",
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      "quote": "For ordinary people, the usage fee of their portrait in an AI short video is roughly 100 to 500 yuan."
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      "party": "HUMXN Research Labs",
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      "dataType": "skilled trades and manufacturing business records, job-site photos and video, manuals",
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      "unit": "programme total",
      "valueText": "$50 million",
      "termsText": "Headline: \"HUMXN Research Labs Wants to Buy $50 Million Worth of Skilled Trades and Manufacturing Data\". The release says the initiative is \"backed by $50 million\" but names no backer and gives no fund structure, so it is a stated purchase target, not a disclosed funded round. Founder named: Thomas Unise. No seller or lab has confirmed a deal.",
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      "sourceLabel": "HUMXN journal (press release)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-13",
      "quote": "launching a nationwide initiative backed by $50 million to acquire and license real-world information for artificial intelligence and robotics training."
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      "kind": "price range",
      "party": "HUMXN Research Labs",
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      "counterparty": "skilled workers",
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      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per hour of approved footage",
      "valueText": "$20 per hour of approved footage",
      "termsText": "Part of the same 13 Oct 2026 release; the company is expanding programmes that pay skilled workers to record their everyday jobs.",
      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://humxn.io/humxn-research-labs-wants-to-buy-50-million-worth-of-skilled-trades-and-manufact",
      "sourceLabel": "HUMXN journal (press release)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-13",
      "quote": "Workers earn $20 per hour of approved footage giving businesses or workers an ongoing source of revenue in addition to selling their existing records."
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      "kind": "buyer program",
      "party": "Mode (BizBuyData)",
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      "dataType": "company operating records (email, chat, documents, CRM, billing)",
      "valueUsd": 5000000000,
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      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "initiative headline",
      "valueText": "$5 Billion",
      "termsText": "The $5 billion appears only in the headline of a paid Business Wire release. The body does not say what it counts, who funds it, or whether it is a purchase budget. Terms in the release: 14-day non-binding letter of intent, collection and de-identification over 15 to 30 days, payment expected within about 60 days; eligible organisations have 20 or more full-time US office employees (10 for accounting firms, 6 for law firms). Neither the release nor Mode's half-year filing explains the figure: the filing shows $15.5 million of cash at 30 Jun 2026, a going-concern doubt that management says is alleviated, and no mention of data licensing.",
      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mode-inc-launches-5-billion-151600765.html",
      "sourceLabel": "Business Wire (paid release), read on Yahoo Finance",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-13",
      "quote": "Mode.Inc Launches $5 Billion Enterprise Data Monetization Initiative to Help Businesses & Nonprofits License Data to Leading AI Companies"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-mode-referral-terms",
      "date": "2026-10-13",
      "kind": "referral terms",
      "party": "Mode (BizBuyData)",
      "partyId": "mode-bizbuydata",
      "counterparty": "referrers",
      "dataType": "company operating records",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": 50000,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "floor per referral",
      "valueText": "the greater of $50,000 or 6% of the organisation's payment",
      "termsText": "Paid once the licensing transaction is complete. Its page adds that the first five qualified US referrals earn the greater of $50,000 or 6%, with a $5,000 or 1% reward for secondary referrals.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mode-inc-launches-5-billion-151600765.html",
      "sourceLabel": "Business Wire (paid release), read on Yahoo Finance",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-13",
      "quote": "Qualifying referrers can earn the greater of $50,000 or 6% of a participating organization's payment once the licensing transaction is complete."
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-simpleclosure-intermediary",
      "date": "2026-10-13",
      "kind": "intermediary",
      "party": "SimpleClosure AssetHub",
      "partyId": "simpleclosure",
      "counterparty": "AI labs and workspace vendors",
      "dataType": "startup code and workspace data (email, chat, documents)",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "deals handled since April 2026",
      "valueText": "over 150 deals; expects to return over $10 million by end of 2026; 47% of its deals now include code or data sales",
      "termsText": "MIT Technology Review reporting, with the CEO as the source of the 150, the $10 million and the 47%. It supersedes the April 2026 figure of nearly 100 deals (Forbes).",
      "basis": "reported",
      "source": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/13/1145755/ai-labs-buying-data-from-dead-startups-to-train-models/amp/",
      "sourceLabel": "MIT Technology Review",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-13",
      "quote": "Asset Hub has handled over 150 deals and expects to return over $10 million to startups by the end of 2026."
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-simpleclosure-transaction",
      "date": "2026-10-13",
      "kind": "transaction",
      "party": "SimpleClosure AssetHub",
      "partyId": "simpleclosure",
      "counterparty": "buyer (unnamed)",
      "dataType": "code base and workspace data of a wound-down crypto startup",
      "valueUsd": 25000,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "code base, roughly",
      "valueText": "roughly $25,000 for the code base; a pending amount (likely around $15,000) for workspace data",
      "termsText": "One founder's sale brokered by SimpleClosure (the founder is named in the article).",
      "basis": "reported",
      "source": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/13/1145755/ai-labs-buying-data-from-dead-startups-to-train-models/amp/",
      "sourceLabel": "MIT Technology Review",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-13",
      "quote": "He’s netted roughly $25,000 for his code base and a still-pending amount (likely around $15,000) for the workspace data in Google, Notion, Figma, and Slack."
    },
    {
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      "date": "2026-10-10",
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      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://www.kled.ai/blog/kled-lands-8m-financial-data-request",
      "sourceLabel": "Kled",
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      "termsText": "Self-reported by Kled; counterparty not named; Kled says the deal makes its marketplace officially profitable.",
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      "termsText": "Examples given in the same post.",
      "basis": "self-reported",
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      "source": "https://defined.ai/press-room/defined-ai-reports-sixty-five-percent-revenue-growth",
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      "quote": "Several partners now generate more than $1 million annually by licensing proprietary datasets through the marketplace."
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      "valueText": "No price stated",
      "termsText": "One-time transaction with no maintenance or support burden; clear authorization and tightly scoped usage for AI training; no public attribution. The post does not name Alignerr or state a price.",
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      "source": "https://labelbox.com/blog/from-dormant-codebases-to-lasting-value",
      "sourceLabel": "Labelbox (company blog)",
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      "quote": "Labelbox works with fully defunct startup codebases to help train and evaluate advanced AI systems."
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      "sourceLabel": "Kled",
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    {
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      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://www.kled.ai/blog/kled-secures-1m-loi-to-power-healthcare-ai",
      "sourceLabel": "Kled",
      "sourceDate": "2025-10-02",
      "quote": "We’re excited to announce that Kled has received a $1 million LOI from Superpower to help build the future of healthcare AI."
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-grepped-calculator-referral",
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      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per company (referrer estimate)",
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      "sourceLabel": "Grepped, site configuration (config.js)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-16",
      "quote": "Referrer calculator (referrals.grepped.ai, Estimate tab): a deliberately generous range a referrer can show an owner."
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-micro1-referral-terms-sub-affiliate",
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      "kind": "referral terms",
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    {
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      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": 100000,
      "unit": "per business introduced",
      "valueText": "10% of the licensing payment, up to $100,000 per business",
      "termsText": "First registered introduction gets the credit for 12 months; paid within 30 days after the business is paid and Pewter has received its own fee; a business already in its pipeline earns nothing. Pewter does not buy: an unnamed licensing firm pays it a fee when a deal closes.",
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    {
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    {
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-micro1-price-range",
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      "source": "https://www.micro1.ai/company-referral",
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    },
    {
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      "sourceLabel": "micro1",
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-micro1-referral-terms",
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      "partyId": "micro1",
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      "source": "https://www.micro1.ai/company-referral",
      "sourceLabel": "micro1",
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      "quote": "Enterprise Data Partnership Operational data partnership using existing business documentation and operational datasets. $50,000 referral reward"
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-databroker-studio-referral-terms",
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      "dataType": "operating-company data (email, Slack, tickets, docs, workflows)",
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      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://databroker.studio/",
      "sourceLabel": "databroker.studio (Tom Wang, independent micro1 referral partner)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-11",
      "quote": "Defunct company referral Limited time $75,000 For each shut-down company you refer that signs."
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-mercor-buyer-program",
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      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per company (formula undisclosed)",
      "valueText": "amount not published",
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      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://www.mercor.com/data/",
      "sourceLabel": "Mercor",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-11",
      "quote": "Compensation is based on data volume, the tools you connect, and the depth of your data. Connecting more tools generally results in a higher payout."
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-mercor-referral-terms",
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      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per referred company (amount undisclosed)",
      "valueText": "referral bonus, amount not stated",
      "termsText": "Paid when the referred company goes live and starts earning ('you receive your referral bonus').",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://www.mercor.com/data/",
      "sourceLabel": "Mercor",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-11",
      "quote": "Refer them to Mercor. When they become a paid partner, you get rewarded too."
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-grepped-referral-terms",
      "date": "2026-10-11",
      "kind": "referral terms",
      "party": "Grepped",
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      "valueText": "10% of what we pay the owner",
      "termsText": "Paid 'When the owner you referred is paid. If they don't sell, there's no fee.' First link the owner fills the full form through wins; no fee if the owner applied alone first. No account needed; referrer need not work at the company. The linked full referral terms were not read. No legal entity named on the page.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://referrals.grepped.ai/portal/",
      "sourceLabel": "Grepped",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-11",
      "quote": "10% of what we pay the owner, up to $100K per referral. A $300K deal pays you $30K. Any deal of $1M or more pays the $100K maximum."
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-grepped-referral-terms-2",
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      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://referrals.grepped.ai/portal/",
      "sourceLabel": "Grepped",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-11",
      "quote": "10% of what we pay the owner, up to $100K per referral. A $300K deal pays you $30K. Any deal of $1M or more pays the $100K maximum."
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-grepped-price-range",
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      "valueText": "$20K–$5M; 'Up to 6 figures per workspace'",
      "termsText": "Buyers see redacted previews before a sale; 'When they purchase, the money comes to you'; 'Get paid in as little as 7 days.'",
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      "source": "https://www.grepped.ai/",
      "sourceLabel": "Grepped",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-11",
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-grepped-price-range-2",
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      "valueHighUsd": 41500,
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      "valueText": "$29K to $41.5K",
      "termsText": "Estimate from team size, founding year and revenue. Reply with scope and offer within a few business days; read-only access to approved sources; payment within 7 days of data passing review; 'two to three weeks' from form to payment; originals deleted after processing.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://www.grepped.ai/business/",
      "sourceLabel": "Grepped",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-11",
      "quote": "Estimated payout range $29K to $41.5K Final payout is determined based on data sources, volume, quality, access terms, and due diligence."
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-grepped-intermediary",
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      "counterparty": "AI labs and research teams (buyers, unnamed)",
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      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "licence (spread undisclosed)",
      "valueText": "no buyer price or spread published",
      "termsText": "Grepped licenses to buyers under its own agreements with data owners and pays owners itself (referral fee is defined on what Grepped pays the owner), so its margin between lab price and owner payout is not disclosed. Samples de-identified and under NDA.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://www.grepped.ai/buyers/",
      "sourceLabel": "Grepped",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-11",
      "quote": "Clear provenance. Every source is licensed under a signed agreement with the data owner."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-fileyield-broker-economics",
      "date": "2026-10-11",
      "kind": "broker economics",
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      "unit": "percent of deal (seller side)",
      "valueText": "8% for sellers",
      "termsText": "Calls itself a private data brokerage. Does not perform PII stripping or legal certification; claims no standing agreements with companies in its buyer directory; a transaction 'may take weeks or months, or may not close'.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://fileyield.com/sell-data",
      "sourceLabel": "FileYield",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-11",
      "quote": "Current agreement rates are 8% for sellers and 6% for buyers."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-fileyield-broker-economics-2",
      "date": "2026-10-11",
      "kind": "broker economics",
      "party": "FileYield",
      "partyId": "fileyield",
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      "dataType": "company datasets (any)",
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      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "percent of deal (buyer side)",
      "valueText": "6% for buyers",
      "termsText": "Calls itself a private data brokerage. Does not perform PII stripping or legal certification; claims no standing agreements with companies in its buyer directory; a transaction 'may take weeks or months, or may not close'.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://fileyield.com/sell-data",
      "sourceLabel": "FileYield",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-11",
      "quote": "Current agreement rates are 8% for sellers and 6% for buyers."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-datavendor-broker-economics",
      "date": "2026-10-11",
      "kind": "broker economics",
      "party": "DataVendor",
      "partyId": "datavendor",
      "counterparty": "sellers of codebases, datasets and tasksets",
      "dataType": "codebases, datasets and tasksets",
      "valueUsd": 20,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "percent of vendor earnings (platform fee, charged at withdrawal)",
      "valueText": "DataVendor keeps 20% of vendor earnings, taken when earnings are withdrawn (so the seller keeps 80%)",
      "termsText": "Converting earnings to credits is fee-free; the fee is never charged on referral fees. Buyers pay a separate transaction fee at checkout. Withdrawals from $1,000, plus Stripe's transfer cost; a lost card dispute passes through a $15 fee (Fees and limits page). Read on DataVendor's own documentation, 16 Oct 2026.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://docs.datavendor.ai/overview/faq",
      "sourceLabel": "DataVendor documentation (General FAQ)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-16",
      "quote": "DataVendor keeps 20% of vendor earnings, assessed only when earnings are withdrawn; converting earnings to credits is fee-free. Buyers pay a separate transaction fee at checkout, shown before payment."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-ooak-data-price-range",
      "date": "2026-10-11",
      "kind": "price range",
      "party": "Ooak Data",
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      "counterparty": "operating, winding-down and closed companies",
      "dataType": "company records (email, Slack, Teams, documents, tickets, code, CRM)",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": 20000,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per deal (closed deals to date)",
      "valueText": "from $20K (smallest closed) to several hundred thousand dollars",
      "termsText": "Price depends on years of history, headcount, number of tools and how deeply they connect. Payment goes to the entity, not individuals; signer must hold signing authority. Raw archive deleted within 30 days (contract obligation).",
      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://ooakdata.com/partner",
      "sourceLabel": "Ooak Data",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-11",
      "quote": "Deals to date range from $20K, the smallest closed, to several hundred thousand dollars."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-ooak-data-buyer-program",
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      "kind": "buyer program",
      "party": "Ooak Data",
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      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": 300000,
      "unit": "per company (advertised maximum)",
      "valueText": "Earn up to $300K",
      "termsText": "Advertises '2 to 4 weeks' and 'No engineering work required'; in-house anonymization, no third party touches the raw archive. As read on 11 Oct 2026. Replaced: the same page read 16 Oct 2026 says 'Earn up to $1M' (record 2026-10-ooak-data-buyer-program-2).",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://ooakdata.com/partner",
      "sourceLabel": "Ooak Data",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-11",
      "quote": "Ooak Data licenses the operational and business data that defines how companies actually work, anonymizes it, and turns it into training material for frontier AI models. You get paid for something you already have. Earn up to $300K",
      "supersededBy": "2026-10-ooak-data-buyer-program-2"
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-pewter-intermediary",
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      "party": "Pewter (pewterdata.com)",
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      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": null,
      "valueText": "no buyer named; paid by the licensing firm",
      "termsText": "Run by Buzzlead.io LLC, a Florida company doing business as Pewter Labs (its other site is a cold-outbound lead-generation agency); domain registered 10 Oct 2026; no person, staff or funding named. Its estimate for 100 employees and 10 years sits about 1% above micro1's own estimator for the same inputs.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://pewterdata.com/",
      "sourceLabel": "Pewter, site",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-16",
      "quote": "The licensing firm pays Pewter a fee when a deal closes; the owner pays nothing."
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-micro1-buyer-program",
      "date": "2026-10-09",
      "kind": "buyer program",
      "party": "micro1",
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      "valueUsd": 1000000000,
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      "unit": "per 12 months (spending commitment)",
      "valueText": "$1 billion over the next 12 months",
      "termsText": "Buys and licenses data through the Company Data Partnerships program; de-identified data is turned into reinforcement learning environments. Financed through capital provided by Citi and Hercules Capital (the size and form of that financing are not disclosed).",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://www.micro1.ai/blog/micro1-commits-1b-to-enterprise-data-acquisition",
      "sourceLabel": "micro1, blog",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-09",
      "quote": "Today micro1 is announcing a commitment to spend $1 billion over the next 12 months acquiring and licensing enterprise operational data through our Company Data Partnerships program."
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-micro1-price-range-2-2",
      "date": "2026-10-09",
      "kind": "price range",
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      "valueText": "$100k+ (Qualified Enterprise Data Partnerships)",
      "termsText": "Eligibility: 30+ employees, established documentation, US first then other Western markets, English. Companies retain ownership; PII removed when relevant; some datasets may get synthetic rewrites. Pay factors: dataset size, workflow complexity, quality, domain expertise, uniqueness.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://www.micro1.ai/data-partnerships",
      "sourceLabel": "micro1",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-09",
      "quote": "Compensation is based on the quality, uniqueness, and value of the data provided $100k+ Qualified Enterprise Data Partnerships"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-micro1-price-range-2-2-2",
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      "kind": "price range",
      "party": "micro1",
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      "termsText": "Eligibility: 30+ employees, established documentation, US first then other Western markets, English. Companies retain ownership; PII removed when relevant; some datasets may get synthetic rewrites. Pay factors: dataset size, workflow complexity, quality, domain expertise, uniqueness.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://www.micro1.ai/data-partnerships",
      "sourceLabel": "micro1",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-09",
      "quote": "$500k+ Large-scale operational datasets or ongoing participation across multiple teams and business functions"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-micro1-price-range-2-2-2-2",
      "date": "2026-10-09",
      "kind": "price range",
      "party": "micro1",
      "partyId": "micro1",
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      "dataType": "company operational data (highly unique, proprietary)",
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      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://www.micro1.ai/data-partnerships",
      "sourceLabel": "micro1",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-09",
      "quote": "$1M+ Highly unique, proprietary operational data with significant value for frontier AI development"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-micro1-referral-terms-2",
      "date": "2026-10-08",
      "kind": "referral terms",
      "party": "micro1",
      "partyId": "micro1",
      "counterparty": "referrers",
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      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "percent of total license or purchase price paid to the company (fallback when no payout is specified on the site)",
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      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://www.micro1.ai/legal/referral-terms",
      "sourceLabel": "micro1 Inc.",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-08",
      "quote": "If no Referral Payout is specified on the Site for a Qualified Referral of a given Company (“Company Referral”), the Referral Payout will equal seven and one-half percent (7.5%) of the total license or purchase price paid to Company in connection with such Qualified Referral."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-micro1-referral-terms-2-2",
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      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "payout timing and discretion",
      "valueText": "no amount (discretion clauses)",
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      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://www.micro1.ai/legal/referral-terms",
      "sourceLabel": "micro1 Inc.",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-08",
      "quote": "The timing and manner of Referral Payouts made in connection with the Program are within our sole discretion and will be communicated through the Site."
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-members-of-congress-legal-or-policy",
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      "counterparty": "Google; Spirit Airlines",
      "dataType": "bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)",
      "valueUsd": null,
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      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "letter",
      "valueText": "$10 million deal",
      "termsText": "Letter signed by 121 lawmakers per the article (Reuters: 'more than 120'). Asks to exclude as much employee information as possible, set use limits and run an independent employee confidentiality review.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://therecord.media/lawmakers-warn-of-google-spirit-ai-training-deal",
      "sourceLabel": "The Record (Recorded Future News)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-08",
      "quote": "More than 100 members of Congress on Thursday sent a letter to the CEOs of Google and Spirit Airlines imploring them to halt a deal which would give the tech giant internal Spirit data in exchange for a $10 million payment to the failed carrier."
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-micro1-defunct-company-program",
      "date": "2026-10-08",
      "kind": "buyer program",
      "party": "micro1",
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      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": null,
      "valueText": "50+ peak employees, substantial Microsoft Teams or Slack data",
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      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://req.micro1.ai/post/681c84e1-2628-4382-aeca-a50433f2f72d",
      "sourceLabel": "micro1, Defunct Company Data Partnership posting",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-08",
      "quote": "\"required_skills\":[\"50+ peak employees\",\"Substantial MS Teams or Slack data\",\"United States\",\"UK\",\"Canada\",\"India\",\"Australia\",\"Singapore\",\"Ireland\",\"Netherlands\",\"Germany and France\",\"English\"]"
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    {
      "id": "2026-10-micro1-defunct-company-referral-terms",
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      "kind": "referral terms",
      "party": "micro1",
      "partyId": "micro1",
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      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per referred defunct company",
      "valueText": "75000 (referral_reward_amount)",
      "termsText": "The referral reward is a data field of micro1's own posting; the visible page prints no amount. An independent partner's microsite calls the same $75,000 limited time; no micro1 page does.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://req.micro1.ai/post/681c84e1-2628-4382-aeca-a50433f2f72d",
      "sourceLabel": "micro1, Defunct Company Data Partnership posting",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-08",
      "quote": "\"create_datetime\":\"2026-10-08 18:52:42\",\"referral_reward_amount\":\"75000\",\"is_referral_enabled\":1"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-grepped-broker-economics",
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      "kind": "broker economics",
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      "valueHighUsd": null,
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      "valueText": "$4M MRR (run rate), as the founder put it ($48M a year if annualised)",
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      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://x.com/eriknewsha/status/2107253221244715130",
      "sourceLabel": "Erik Newsham, founder of Grepped (post on X)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-05",
      "quote": "literally entered this space two weeks ago and am at a $4m MRR (run rate) already."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-frankfurt-kurnit-klein-and-selz-legal-or-policy",
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      "kind": "legal or policy",
      "party": "Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz (Daniel M. Goldberg)",
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      "dataType": "company records (email, chat, code, HR)",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "legal guidance",
      "valueText": null,
      "termsText": "Also warns that once data trains a model 'it cannot practically be pulled back out' and advises excluding privileged, HR, payroll, health, union and customer-confidential material rather than relying on de-identification.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://www.legal500.com/intelligence/united-states/privacy/selling-company-data-for-ai-training-what-to-know-before-you-say-yes",
      "sourceLabel": "Legal 500 (Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, Daniel M. Goldberg)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-06",
      "quote": "Assemble the Team. Legal, privacy, security, HR, and communications should be involved. These deals should not be run by business development alone. Do not share sample data before this review, since a sample itself could be a disclosure."
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      "valueHighUsd": null,
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      "valueText": "$10 million sale",
      "termsText": "Ombudsman recommended approval; approval is up to the court; hearing scheduled for 14 October. Any other bids (Mercor, micro1) would need additional consumer-privacy review.",
      "basis": "reported",
      "source": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/google-just-got-boost-bid-220104422.html",
      "sourceLabel": "Business Insider (via Yahoo Finance)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-05",
      "quote": "The ombudsman was appointed to evaluate risks specific to consumer privacy, as US bankruptcy law provides for consumer protections in data sales. The ombudsman said her review did not include whether the sale posed any privacy risks to employees."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-california-privacy-protection-agency-legal-or-policy",
      "date": "2026-10-05",
      "kind": "legal or policy",
      "party": "California Privacy Protection Agency",
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      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per year (2026 registration fee)",
      "valueText": "$6,000 plus up to 2.99 percent processing fee",
      "termsText": "Since 1 Aug 2026 brokers must process DROP deletion requests at least every 45 days; $200 per day fine for failure to register; independent audits from 2028. Oregon $600, Texas $300.",
      "basis": "reported",
      "source": "https://www.bytebacklaw.com/2026/10/is-your-business-model-subject-to-data-broker-laws/",
      "sourceLabel": "Husch Blackwell (Byte Back)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-05",
      "quote": "For 2026, the fee is $6,000 plus an electronic-payment processing fee of up to 2.99 percent."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-u-s-court-of-appeals-for-the-third-circuit-legal-or-policy",
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      "kind": "legal or policy",
      "party": "U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit",
      "partyId": null,
      "counterparty": "Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence",
      "dataType": "proprietary third-party content (Westlaw headnotes) used for AI training",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
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      "termsText": "Ruled for Thomson Reuters on copyrightability and fair use (training use not fair use); ROSS says it will seek Supreme Court review.",
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      "source": "https://www.lawnext.com/2026/09/3rd-circuit-rules-for-thomson-reuters-in-its-copyright-fight-against-legal-research-startup-ross.html",
      "sourceLabel": "LawNext (LawSites)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-09-30",
      "quote": "That makes it the first federal appellate decision to address fair use in the context of AI training, although the unique facts of the case, including that the copying was done before the advent of generative AI, may minimize the implications."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-state-data-broker-registries-legal-or-policy",
      "date": "2026-09-30",
      "kind": "legal or policy",
      "party": "State data-broker registries (CA, OR, TX, VT; CT and NJ to follow)",
      "partyId": null,
      "counterparty": "data brokers selling or licensing personal data",
      "dataType": "personal data inside brokered datasets",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "registration requirement",
      "valueText": null,
      "termsText": "Definitions differ by state; California covers selling personal information of consumers with whom the business has no direct relationship.",
      "basis": "reported",
      "source": "https://www.bytebacklaw.com/2026/10/is-your-business-model-subject-to-data-broker-laws/",
      "sourceLabel": "Husch Blackwell (Byte Back)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-05",
      "quote": "As of September 30, 2026, California, Oregon, Texas, and Vermont have active registration procedures. Connecticut requires registration beginning January 1, 2027. New Jersey enacted a separate registry framework in June 2026."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-spacex-buyer-program",
      "date": "2026-09-17",
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      "party": "SpaceX",
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      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "internal discussions (no price)",
      "valueText": null,
      "termsText": "Internal discussions only, per people familiar with the matter; no deal or price reported.",
      "basis": "reported",
      "source": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-17/spacex-discusses-buying-data-for-ai-models-from-failed-startups",
      "sourceLabel": "Bloomberg",
      "sourceDate": "2026-09-17",
      "quote": "Elon Musk’s SpaceX has held internal discussions about buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups, according to people familiar with the matter, targeting a more affordable data source to improve its artificial intelligence models."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-u-s-court-of-appeals-for-the-ninth-circuit-legal-or-policy",
      "date": "2026-09-16",
      "kind": "legal or policy",
      "party": "U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit",
      "partyId": null,
      "counterparty": "Doe v. GitHub (GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI)",
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      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "appellate ruling",
      "valueText": null,
      "termsText": "Open-source licence contract claims continue in the district court; the panel took no position on whether Copilot output infringes.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://www.haynesboone.com/news/alerts/ai-legal-news-ninth-circuit-rejects-dmca-section-1202(b)-theory",
      "sourceLabel": "Haynes Boone",
      "sourceDate": "2026-09-18",
      "quote": "The Ninth Circuit affirmed on September 16, 2026 the dismissal of a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) claim in Doe v. GitHub, Inc., holding that programmers cannot sue over GitHub Copilot output that omits their attribution notices."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-micro1-transaction",
      "date": "2026-09-14",
      "kind": "transaction",
      "party": "micro1",
      "partyId": "micro1",
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      "dataType": "company data (unspecified)",
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      "valueHighUsd": null,
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      "valueText": "more than 50 data transactions in the preceding 45 days",
      "termsText": "Stated in micro1's Spirit court filing; no sellers, prices or AI-lab customers named.",
      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://fortune.com/2026/09/14/micro1-tries-to-beat-googles-bid-to-buy-bankrupt-spirit-airlines-data-for-12-5-million-highlighting-value-of-data-to-ai-companies/",
      "sourceLabel": "Fortune",
      "sourceDate": "2026-09-14",
      "quote": "Micro1 said it had completed more than 50 data transactions in the preceding 45 days, without identifying the sellers, prices, or AI-lab customers."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-turing-transaction",
      "date": "2026-09-14",
      "kind": "transaction",
      "party": "Turing",
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      "counterparty": "five to ten failed startups (unnamed)",
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      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per codebase (average)",
      "valueText": "average in the tens of thousands of dollars",
      "termsText": "CEO statement to The Information, relayed by Fortune.",
      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://fortune.com/2026/09/14/micro1-tries-to-beat-googles-bid-to-buy-bankrupt-spirit-airlines-data-for-12-5-million-highlighting-value-of-data-to-ai-companies/",
      "sourceLabel": "Fortune",
      "sourceDate": "2026-09-14",
      "quote": "Jonathan Siddharth, the CEO of Turing, which provides human experts and training data to AI developers, told The Information that his company had bought five to ten failed-startup codebases, paying an average in the tens of thousands of dollars for each."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-buymydeadstartup-intermediary",
      "date": "2026-09-09",
      "kind": "intermediary",
      "party": "BuyMyDeadStartup",
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      "dataType": "defunct-company archive (code, documents, operational records)",
      "valueUsd": 1500,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per month (buyer access fee)",
      "valueText": "$1,500 a month",
      "termsText": "Free for sellers, no cut of any sale; listing board only, no custody of data; says it is not a broker or escrow.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://www.buymydeadstartup.com/",
      "sourceLabel": "BuyMyDeadStartup",
      "sourceDate": "2026-09-09",
      "quote": "Nothing for sellers. No listing fee and no cut of any sale. Buyers pay $1,500 a month for access to the listings, which is how the site is funded. We are not a broker and not an escrow, and no sale money passes through us."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-consumer-privacy-ombudsman-legal-or-policy",
      "date": "2026-09-08",
      "kind": "legal or policy",
      "party": "Consumer privacy ombudsman (Lucy L. Thomson)",
      "partyId": null,
      "counterparty": "Google; Spirit Airlines",
      "dataType": "bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "court filing",
      "valueText": null,
      "termsText": "Report conditions approval on recommended conditions (Attachment A, not yet filed as of 11 Sep). Sale hearing adjourned to 30 Sep 2026 [Dkt. 1601]. Google's 9 Sep response argued the ombudsman's role is limited to personally identifiable information.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://chapter11cases.com/blogs/news/the-spirit-airlines-deidentified-data-sale-auction-results-objections-and-the-september-30-hearing",
      "sourceLabel": "Research Suite by Stretto (chapter11cases.com), docket summary",
      "sourceDate": "2026-09-13",
      "quote": "Consumer privacy ombudsman files her report, identifying five categories of conditions to be provided as Attachment A [Dkt. 1581]"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-micro1-transaction-2",
      "date": "2026-09-03",
      "kind": "transaction",
      "party": "micro1",
      "partyId": "micro1",
      "counterparty": "Spirit Airlines (debtor)",
      "dataType": "bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)",
      "valueUsd": 12500000,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per deal (late competing offer)",
      "valueText": "$12,500,000",
      "termsText": "All cash from cash on hand, no financing contingency; described as a $2.5 million (25 percent) premium over the Successful Bid. Offered covenants excluding disciplinary, medical, EEO and union material. The Debtors had not responded on the docket through 11 Sep 2026.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://chapter11cases.com/blogs/news/the-spirit-airlines-deidentified-data-sale-auction-results-objections-and-the-september-30-hearing",
      "sourceLabel": "Research Suite by Stretto (chapter11cases.com), docket summary",
      "sourceDate": "2026-09-13",
      "quote": "On September 3, 2026, micro1 Inc. filed a notice of intent to submit a competing and superior bid [Dkt. 1556]. The notice states a purchase price of $12,500,000 payable entirely in cash from cash on hand"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-simpleclosure-broker-economics",
      "date": "2026-09-03",
      "kind": "broker economics",
      "party": "SimpleClosure",
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      "counterparty": "venture-backed startups (sellers); foundation labs and RL-environment builders (buyers)",
      "dataType": "source code and operational data (AssetHub)",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": 10000000,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "cumulative seller proceeds by end of 2026 (projection)",
      "valueText": "on track to return more than $10 million to startups by the end of 2026 (a forecast, not money already returned)",
      "termsText": "350+ companies supported; AI buyers up 9X versus 2025; AssetHub opened to operating companies; free for SimpleClosure dissolution customers (fee for others not disclosed). Multi-pass de-identification; sensitive employee and health records not sold.",
      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://www.webull.com/news/15515143679517696",
      "sourceLabel": "SimpleClosure press release (syndicated via Webull)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-09-03",
      "quote": "After launching earlier this year, AssetHub is on track to return more than $10 million to venture-backed startups by the end of 2026."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-simpleclosure-price-range",
      "date": "2026-09-03",
      "kind": "price range",
      "party": "SimpleClosure",
      "partyId": "simpleclosure",
      "counterparty": null,
      "dataType": "company assets (code, operational data)",
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      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per company",
      "valueText": "tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars; potentially millions at enterprise scale",
      "termsText": "Based on 350+ startup datasets. About 37% of raw code disappeared after removing third-party or generated code and duplicates. Demand cited in manufacturing, energy, banking and insurance, professional services and logistics.",
      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://simpleclosure.com/blog/insights/what-your-assets-are-worth/",
      "sourceLabel": "SimpleClosure",
      "sourceDate": "2026-09-03",
      "quote": "What we’re seeing: company assets can represent tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars in value, and potentially even millions at enterprise scale."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-unnamed-codebase-buying-platform-price-range",
      "date": "2026-09-03",
      "kind": "price range",
      "party": "unnamed codebase-buying platform (cited by Troveo)",
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      "counterparty": "code owners",
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      "valueUsd": 5000,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per repository (baseline before grading)",
      "valueText": "5,000 dollar baseline per repository",
      "termsText": "Adjusted up or down after grading; platform not named.",
      "basis": "reported",
      "source": "https://www.troveo.ai/resources/sell-code-to-ai-companies",
      "sourceLabel": "Troveo",
      "sourceDate": "2026-09-03",
      "quote": "One codebase-buying platform lists a 5,000 dollar baseline per repository, adjusted up or down after grading."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-troveo-price-range",
      "date": "2026-09-03",
      "kind": "price range",
      "party": "Troveo (compiling reported figures)",
      "partyId": "troveo",
      "counterparty": null,
      "dataType": "source code and company archives",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per repository or per deal",
      "valueText": "a few thousand dollars per graded repository; 10,000 to 100,000 dollars per shutdown deal; hundreds of thousands for a complete company archive",
      "termsText": "Operating companies usually license and keep ownership; an outright sale is 'mainly for shutdowns'. Exclusive licences command a premium. Rights work makes deals take 'Weeks, not days'.",
      "basis": "reported",
      "source": "https://www.troveo.ai/resources/sell-code-to-ai-companies",
      "sourceLabel": "Troveo",
      "sourceDate": "2026-09-03",
      "quote": "Reported figures from the current market run from a few thousand dollars for a single graded repository to somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 dollars per deal for shutting-down startups, and into the hundreds of thousands for a complete company archive."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-u-s-department-of-justice-legal-or-policy",
      "date": "2026-09-01",
      "kind": "legal or policy",
      "party": "U.S. Department of Justice",
      "partyId": null,
      "counterparty": "OpenAI copyright MDL (S.D.N.Y.), addressing The New York Times' claims",
      "dataType": "copyrighted text used for LLM training",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "statement of interest",
      "valueText": null,
      "termsText": "Non-binding; argues training is 'exceedingly transformative'. Bears on public content, not on contract and privacy limits on private company data.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://ipwatchdog.com/2026/09/03/doj-sides-with-openai-warns-obstacles-to-ai-development-threaten-national-security/",
      "sourceLabel": "IPWatchdog",
      "sourceDate": "2026-09-03",
      "quote": "On September 1, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a Statement of Interest urging the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to hold that using copyrighted written works to train large language models (LLMs) is fair use"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-08-micro1-broker-economics",
      "date": "2026-08-20",
      "kind": "broker economics",
      "party": "micro1",
      "partyId": "micro1",
      "counterparty": "multiple customers",
      "dataType": "off-the-shelf datasets resold to multiple customers",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": 80,
      "valueHighUsd": 90,
      "unit": "percent gross margin",
      "valueText": "as high as 80% to 90%",
      "termsText": "Figure from an unnamed person familiar with micro1's finances.",
      "basis": "reported",
      "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/ai-data-startup-micro1-reaches-500m-gross-run-rate-amid-ai-training-boom/",
      "sourceLabel": "TechCrunch",
      "sourceDate": "2026-08-20",
      "quote": "Additionally, some of the data it generates can be sold to multiple customers, driving gross margins for this “off-the-shelf” data as high as 80% to 90%, a person familiar with the startup’s finances told TechCrunch."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-08-google-transaction",
      "date": "2026-08-14",
      "kind": "transaction",
      "party": "Google",
      "partyId": "google",
      "counterparty": "Spirit Airlines (In re Spirit Aviation Holdings, No. 25-11897, Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)",
      "dataType": "bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)",
      "valueUsd": 10000000,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per deal (winning bid)",
      "valueText": "$10,000,000",
      "termsText": "Google opened at $5 million cash, with a third-party de-identification process paid for by the buyer. Sale not approved as of the docket review through 11 Sep 2026 (later status: see the 5 Oct 2026 ombudsman record).",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://chapter11cases.com/blogs/news/the-spirit-airlines-deidentified-data-sale-auction-results-objections-and-the-september-30-hearing",
      "sourceLabel": "Research Suite by Stretto (chapter11cases.com), docket summary",
      "sourceDate": "2026-09-13",
      "quote": "Google LLC was selected as Successful Bidder with total consideration of $10,000,000, and Mercor.io Corporation was designated Alternate Bidder with total consideration of $7,500,000 [Dkt. 1463]."
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    {
      "id": "2026-08-mercor-transaction",
      "date": "2026-08-14",
      "kind": "transaction",
      "party": "Mercor",
      "partyId": "mercor",
      "counterparty": "Spirit Airlines (debtor)",
      "dataType": "bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)",
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      "valueLowUsd": 5200000,
      "valueHighUsd": 10000000,
      "unit": "per deal (alternate bid; range across Mercor's offers)",
      "valueText": "$7.5 million alternate bid; also $5.2M, $7M and $10M offers",
      "termsText": "Mercor offered $7 million and later $10 million conditioned on using its own de-identification tools instead of a third party; neither was selected. If the Google deal is not consummated, the Debtors may accept the Alternate Bid.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://chapter11cases.com/blogs/news/the-spirit-airlines-deidentified-data-sale-auction-results-objections-and-the-september-30-hearing",
      "sourceLabel": "Research Suite by Stretto (chapter11cases.com), docket summary",
      "sourceDate": "2026-09-13",
      "quote": "Mercor.io also offered $10 million subject to an in-house rather than third-party deidentification process; the Debtors designated its $7.5 million bid as the Alternate Bid [Dkt. 1470]."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-08-multiple-unnamed-buyers-transaction",
      "date": "2026-08-14",
      "kind": "transaction",
      "party": "multiple unnamed buyers",
      "partyId": null,
      "counterparty": "Warmly (spelled 'Wormly' in this source), acquired by HubSpot",
      "dataType": "source code and employee communications",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": 300000,
      "unit": "per offer (maximum)",
      "valueText": "as much as $300,000",
      "termsText": "CEO Maximus Greenwald said he received four such offers and turned them all down; HubSpot said no data was included in the acquisition. AI Weekly (15 Aug 2026), citing The Information, says Mercor approached Warmly.",
      "basis": "reported",
      "source": "https://en.fnnews.com/news/202608141625145080",
      "sourceLabel": "The Financial News (fnnews.com), summarizing The Information",
      "sourceDate": "2026-08-14",
      "quote": "In fact, after AI startup Wormly agreed in late June to be acquired by customer management and marketing software company HubSpot, it received multiple offers to buy its codebase and employee communication records for as much as $300,000."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-08-protege-intermediary",
      "date": "2026-08-14",
      "kind": "intermediary",
      "party": "Protege",
      "partyId": "protege",
      "counterparty": null,
      "dataType": "licensed training data (mixed; Protege's catalog is mainly clinical and media)",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": 100000000,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "transaction volume per year (2026)",
      "valueText": "transaction volume from $30 million in 2025 to at least $100 million in 2026 (what buyers paid through it, not its revenue)",
      "termsText": "CEO Bobby Samuels' figures, relayed from The Information.",
      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://en.fnnews.com/news/202608141625145080",
      "sourceLabel": "The Financial News (fnnews.com), summarizing The Information",
      "sourceDate": "2026-08-14",
      "quote": "Bobby Samuels, CEO of U.S. data brokerage startup Protege, said the company’s total transaction volume has jumped from $30 million last year to at least $100 million this year as demand has recently increased."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-08-ooak-data-broker-economics",
      "date": "2026-08-14",
      "kind": "broker economics",
      "party": "Ooak Data",
      "partyId": "ooak",
      "counterparty": "multiple frontier labs (unnamed)",
      "dataType": "company records turned into anonymized 'digital twins' for agent training",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": 1000000,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "revenue to date (claimed)",
      "valueText": "well above 7 figures in revenue; data from 20 companies",
      "termsText": "Seeks companies with 20+ FTEs, operating, winding down or recently closed.",
      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Sih-ooak-data-turn-internal-company-data-into-a-training-ground-where-ai-agents-can-be-trained-on-real-work",
      "sourceLabel": "Y Combinator (Launch YC post by Ooak Data)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-08-14",
      "quote": "We're working with multiple frontier labs and are now well above 7 figures in revenue. We've cut ingestion-to-delivery time 3x since launch, across data from 20 companies."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-08-verb-intermediary",
      "date": "2026-08-06",
      "kind": "intermediary",
      "party": "Verb",
      "partyId": "verb",
      "counterparty": "consumers (sellers); AI labs expected as biggest buyers",
      "dataType": "consumer personal data (shopping habits, social media use; adjacent to company data)",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "seller-set price",
      "valueText": "no price disclosed",
      "termsText": "Users set their own price; Verb provides an estimate; 'The more you share, the more you can charge.' Excludes passwords, text messages and health data. CEO Cyrus Beschloss expects AI labs to be the biggest buyers.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/exclusive-verb-lets-you-sell-your-data-to-ai-labs-for-training",
      "sourceLabel": "Axios",
      "sourceDate": "2026-08-06",
      "quote": "Verb, a data exchange, is launching a marketplace Thursday that lets consumers sell their personal data directly to companies, the company first shared with Axios."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-07-mercor-referral-terms",
      "date": "2026-07-29",
      "kind": "referral terms",
      "party": "Mercor",
      "partyId": "mercor",
      "counterparty": "referrers",
      "dataType": "company workflow data",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per referral (amount not published)",
      "valueText": "Referral bonus, amount not published. An up-to-$100K-per-referral figure that a third-party tracker reported on the page from 29 Jul to 22 Sep 2026 is unverified: Mercor's own page names no amount.",
      "termsText": "Paid when the referred company becomes a paid partner and goes live (Mercor data page, read 16 Oct 2026). The earlier $100K figure could not be confirmed on any Mercor page or in named press, so it is not held as fact.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://www.mercor.com/data/",
      "sourceLabel": "Mercor (data page)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-16",
      "quote": "Do you know someone who runs a company? Refer them to Mercor. When they become a paid partner, you get rewarded too."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-07-troveo-intermediary",
      "date": "2026-07-23",
      "kind": "intermediary",
      "party": "Troveo",
      "partyId": "troveo",
      "counterparty": "7,000+ licensors (rights holders)",
      "dataType": "mixed licensed data (mainly video and audio; business data program added)",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": 20000000,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "cumulative payouts to rights holders",
      "valueText": "over $20 million paid out; 95 percent of licensors exclusive",
      "termsText": "Commission not disclosed.",
      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://www.troveo.ai/resources/ai-data-licensing",
      "sourceLabel": "Troveo",
      "sourceDate": "2026-07-23",
      "quote": "more than 7,000 licensors have signed licensing agreements with Troveo that explicitly cover AI training, 95 percent of them exclusively, with over $20 million paid out to rights holders so far."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-07-micro1-buyer-program",
      "date": "2026-07-01",
      "kind": "buyer program",
      "party": "micro1",
      "partyId": "micro1",
      "counterparty": "50 partner companies (unnamed)",
      "dataType": "company workflow data",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": 100000,
      "valueHighUsd": 2000000,
      "unit": "per company",
      "valueText": "$100K-$2M+ each, 50 companies",
      "termsText": "Company Data Partnership Program; companies and amounts per company not disclosed.",
      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://www.micro1.ai/forum/turn-existing-workflows-into-revenue-2",
      "sourceLabel": "micro1 forum",
      "sourceDate": "2026-07-01",
      "quote": "will share insights on how we're partnering with 50 companies, paying $100K–$2M+, for their real-world business workflows that will help train the next generation of AI models."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-06-micro1-referral-terms",
      "date": "2026-06-16",
      "kind": "referral terms",
      "party": "micro1",
      "partyId": "micro1",
      "counterparty": "referrers",
      "dataType": "company operational data",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": 25000,
      "unit": "per referred company (maximum at launch)",
      "valueText": "up to $25,000 per referred company; $5,000,000 committed to the program",
      "termsText": "Paid once the referred company enters a paid data partnership with micro1; company must identify the referrer during onboarding. Superseded by the $50,000 headline on the current referral page.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://www.micro1.ai/forum/company-data-partnerships-referral-program",
      "sourceLabel": "micro1 forum",
      "sourceDate": "2026-06-16",
      "quote": "Ali joined Anthony Pompliano to share how micro1 is committing $5,000,000 to launch the micro1 Company Data Partnerships Referral Program. For every company you refer, you can earn up to $25,000."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-05-labelsets-broker-economics",
      "date": "2026-05-26",
      "kind": "broker economics",
      "party": "LabelSets",
      "partyId": "labelsets",
      "counterparty": "dataset sellers",
      "dataType": "labeled datasets (marketplace)",
      "valueUsd": 15,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "percent of each sale (platform commission)",
      "valueText": "15% commission; sellers keep 85%",
      "termsText": "Free to list, per the directory. Not confirmed on LabelSets' own site.",
      "basis": "reported",
      "source": "https://toolradar.com/tools/labelsets",
      "sourceLabel": "Toolradar (third-party tool directory)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-05-26",
      "quote": "Sellers keep 85% of every sale, with LabelSets taking a 15% commission."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-05-datarade-broker-economics",
      "date": "2026-05-22",
      "kind": "broker economics",
      "party": "Datarade (Monda)",
      "partyId": "datarade",
      "counterparty": "data providers",
      "dataType": "datasets (general data marketplace)",
      "valueUsd": 30,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "percent of each sale, provider side (the free Commission-only plan)",
      "valueText": "30% commission",
      "termsText": "Datarade's own plan table (read 16 Oct 2026): Commission-only plan $0 a year + 30% commission; Bronze $6,000 a year + 20%; Silver $12,000 a year + 15%; Gold custom. First recorded on 22 May 2026 from a third-party summary; now cited from Datarade's page.",
      "basis": "stated",
      "source": "https://providers.datarade.ai/apply",
      "sourceLabel": "Datarade (provider application and plans page)",
      "sourceDate": "2026-10-16",
      "quote": "For exploring the platform $0 / year + 30% commission"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-04-simpleclosure-price-range",
      "date": "2026-04-16",
      "kind": "price range",
      "party": "SimpleClosure",
      "partyId": "simpleclosure",
      "counterparty": "defunct startups (sellers); AI labs and data firms (buyers, unnamed)",
      "dataType": "defunct-company archive (code, Slack, email)",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": 10000,
      "valueHighUsd": 100000,
      "unit": "per company",
      "valueText": "$10,000 to $100,000 per company; nearly 100 deals; over $1 million recovered",
      "termsText": "CEO Dori Yona's figures to Forbes. SimpleClosure removes personally identifiable information before sale.",
      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-training-data-your-old-work-slacks-and-emails/",
      "sourceLabel": "Forbes",
      "sourceDate": "2026-04-16",
      "quote": "In the past year SimpleClosure has processed nearly 100 deals on behalf of dead companies, Yona said. It has recovered over $1 million dollars on behalf of founders, typically paying between $10,000 and $100,000 per company."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-04-sunset-price-range",
      "date": "2026-04-16",
      "kind": "price range",
      "party": "Sunset",
      "partyId": "sunset",
      "counterparty": "defunct companies (sellers)",
      "dataType": "defunct-company archive",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per company",
      "valueText": "'similar prices' to SimpleClosure (whose typical range is $10,000 to $100,000 per company)",
      "termsText": "Pricing factors per CEO Brendan Mahony: company size, age and 'data richness' (internal traceability and cross-platform linkage). A Jira ticket tied to a specific code commit is worth more than a standalone document; healthcare and finance command a premium.",
      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-training-data-your-old-work-slacks-and-emails/",
      "sourceLabel": "Forbes",
      "sourceDate": "2026-04-16",
      "quote": "A competitor, Sunset, also buys defunct company data at similar prices. CEO Brendan Mahony told Forbes the price depends on the company’s size, its age, and ‘data richness’ [...] A Jira ticket tied to a specific code commit carries more value than a standalone document, he said."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-04-simpleclosure-transaction",
      "date": "2026-04-16",
      "kind": "transaction",
      "party": "SimpleClosure (wind-down and sale)",
      "partyId": "simpleclosure",
      "counterparty": "cielo24 (seller); buyer not named",
      "dataType": "defunct-company archive (13 years of Slack, Jira, email, Google Drive)",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": null,
      "valueHighUsd": null,
      "unit": "per deal",
      "valueText": "hundreds of thousands of dollars",
      "termsText": "Former CEO Shanna Johnson's account; buyer and exact price not disclosed.",
      "basis": "self-reported",
      "source": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-training-data-your-old-work-slacks-and-emails/",
      "sourceLabel": "Forbes",
      "sourceDate": "2026-04-16",
      "quote": "Then came the part nobody puts in the founder playbook: selling off cielo24’s 13-year digital footprint [...] as training data for the next generation of AI. For that, cielo24 received “hundreds of thousands of dollars,”"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-01-rl-environment-vendors-price-range",
      "date": "2026-01-12",
      "kind": "price range",
      "party": "RL environment vendors",
      "partyId": null,
      "counterparty": "neolabs and frontier labs",
      "dataType": "RL environment (contracts)",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": 300000,
      "valueHighUsd": 500000,
      "unit": "per quarter (neolab contract)",
      "valueText": "often six to seven figures per quarter; $300k-$500k seen by a neolab researcher",
      "termsText": "From interviews with RL-environment founders and lab researchers. Included as a brokerage input: Grepped's referral portal accepts RL environments as referred supply.",
      "basis": "reported",
      "source": "https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/state-of-rl-envs",
      "sourceLabel": "Epoch AI",
      "sourceDate": "2026-01-12",
      "quote": "Contract sizes are often six to seven figures per quarter. For example, one RL environment founder noted that contracts are often seven figures per quarter or more. A neolab researcher mentioned seeing contracts in the $300k-$500k range"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-01-rl-environment-vendors-price-range-2",
      "date": "2026-01-12",
      "kind": "price range",
      "party": "RL environment vendors",
      "partyId": null,
      "counterparty": "AI labs",
      "dataType": "RL environment (software replicas)",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": 20000,
      "valueHighUsd": 300000,
      "unit": "per environment",
      "valueText": "around $20k per website replica; around $300k for a Slack-grade replica",
      "termsText": "From interviews with RL-environment founders and lab researchers. Included as a brokerage input: Grepped's referral portal accepts RL environments as referred supply.",
      "basis": "reported",
      "source": "https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/state-of-rl-envs",
      "sourceLabel": "Epoch AI",
      "sourceDate": "2026-01-12",
      "quote": "SemiAnalysis reported that website replicas (“UI gyms”) cost around $20k each. But higher-quality replicas of complex products like Slack can cost significantly more: one interviewee mentioned figures around $300k for these."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-01-rl-environment-vendors-price-range-2-2",
      "date": "2026-01-12",
      "kind": "price range",
      "party": "RL environment vendors",
      "partyId": null,
      "counterparty": "AI labs",
      "dataType": "RL task (prompt plus grader)",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": 200,
      "valueHighUsd": 2000,
      "unit": "per task",
      "valueText": "$200-$2,000 per task; $20k per task rare",
      "termsText": "From interviews with RL-environment founders and lab researchers. Included as a brokerage input: Grepped's referral portal accepts RL environments as referred supply.",
      "basis": "reported",
      "source": "https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/state-of-rl-envs",
      "sourceLabel": "Epoch AI",
      "sourceDate": "2026-01-12",
      "quote": "Task costs also vary, but multiple interviewees agreed on a ballpark of $200-$2,000 per task."
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-01-rl-environment-vendors-price-range-2-2-2",
      "date": "2026-01-12",
      "kind": "price range",
      "party": "RL environment vendors",
      "partyId": null,
      "counterparty": "AI labs",
      "dataType": "RL environment (exclusive vs non-exclusive)",
      "valueUsd": null,
      "valueLowUsd": 4,
      "valueHighUsd": 5,
      "unit": "multiple of non-exclusive price",
      "valueText": "roughly 4-5x",
      "termsText": "From interviews with RL-environment founders and lab researchers. Included as a brokerage input: Grepped's referral portal accepts RL environments as referred supply.",
      "basis": "reported",
      "source": "https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/state-of-rl-envs",
      "sourceLabel": "Epoch AI",
      "sourceDate": "2026-01-12",
      "quote": "Two RL environment founders independently agreed that exclusive deals are roughly 4-5x more expensive than non-exclusive ones."
    }
  ]
}