Selling your Bullhorn data to AI buyers

No buyer publishes a price list by industry. What they do publish is a range for a whole company: micro1, Polyshares and Ventra each advertise deals from roughly $100K to $2M or more, and Pewter's licensing partner cites examples between $350K and $650K. Read those as the buyers' own marketing figures, not offers.

For a Bullhorn user of about 40 people, three things move the number most: how many years of history you have, how much of the work is written down in one place, and how cleanly client and employee details can be removed. Try the worth estimator for a range based on your size.

Troveo's intake form has no category for this industry, so it falls under "something else", which sits in its third tier, which it describes as standard demand. Polyshares accepts staffing and recruiting, though it does not mark it as premium.

Some buyers pay us a referral fee. It never changes your price, and it never changes the order of our rankings.

1. 1Use Bullhorn's list export for notes, submissions and job orders. Each file is capped somewhere between 5,000 and 20,000 rows, by entity.
2. 2For a full copy, request a data backup through Bullhorn's backup process.
3. 3Do not let a buyer run bulk pulls through the API without checking Bullhorn's fair use policy.
4. 4Strip candidate names, emails and phone numbers before sharing.

• Monday: notes added after twenty screening calls.
• Tuesday: submissions sent with comments.
• Wednesday: client notes after a quarterly review.
• Thursday: job orders updated with new requirements.
• Friday: candidate texts confirming starts.

Illustrative. Multiply one week by every year you have kept, and that is the record a buyer is looking at. The written decisions matter more than the totals.

• Staffing agencies, the full guide
• Recruiting agencies
• Temporary staffing agencies
• Executive search firms

1. 1

   Check the fit

   Answer a few questions about headcount, years of records and the systems you use. No files change hands.

2. 2

   Inventory call

   A buyer walks through what you hold and what it wants. Most say the owner spends one to three hours in total.

3. 3

   Written offer

   Buyers usually send terms within days to two weeks: price, scope, term and whether the deal is exclusive.

4. 4

   Clean and deliver

   Personal details are removed under the agreed method, then a copy is exported. Your originals stay where they are.

A data license can sit alongside a sale or a wind-down. If you are selling the business, agree with the acquirer who keeps the right to license the archive. If you are closing down, keep the workspace and inboxes alive until a buyer has seen them. A closed company is not out of options: SimpleClosure reports more than 150 completed sales of shut-down startups' archives.