AI data brokers: the middlemen between your business and AI labs

A licensor pays you for a copy of your records, scrubs out names and personal details, then licenses the cleaned set on to AI labs. That is the model behind most of the buyers we rank. micro1 on its own has pledged $1B across a 12-month window.

Some pay a lump sum for an agreed copy, others share revenue as the data earns. Find out which deal is in front of you: it determines whether the money arrives once or in instalments.

Introducers are a more recent arrival. They connect businesses with licensors and collect a fee when a deal closes. Pewter says its fee comes from its licensing partner, so owners pay nothing, and License My Data, Endless and aitrainer.work describe themselves in similar terms. Under micro1's referral terms, introducers earn 7.5% of the license price by default.

We are paid this way too. Some buyers pay us a referral fee. It never changes your price. See how we make money.

Marketplaces post datasets so buyers can browse them. Datarade takes 15% to 30% from sellers, depending on the plan, and hc1 offers its 12B+ lab results on the Protege marketplace. This route works best for a ready-made dataset, less well for a working company's archive.

• Who pays you, and how much?
• Do you hold our data at any point?
• Which buyer would receive our records?
• Does registering with you lock us to you, and for how long?