Updated October 2026
Polyshares: what it pays, and what its pages leave open
Polyshares licenses a company's operating record, Slack, email, tickets, CRM and files, and supplies it to AI labs. It quotes typical deals of $100K-$2M+, an offer 1-2 weeks after intake and payment Net 30-60, and charges no fee. It publishes more terms than most buyers, but no terms of service or privacy policy.1,2,3,4,5
Publishes no terms of service, privacy policy, address or state of incorporation.5
Its pages disagree on whether licenses are perpetual and whether data is listed.6
Key facts
Polyshares in its own words and others'
| Fact | Value and source |
|---|---|
| Typical deal | $100K-$2M+ |
| Time to offer and payment | Offer 1-2 weeks after intake; paid Net 30-60 |
| Seller fees | Charges sellers no fee |
| Personal data | A third-party PII partner scrubs data before it is licensed |
| Excluded data | Data held on behalf of clients is excluded |
| Polyshares deals it lists | Lists four deals with names kept confidential, among them a $300,000 general contractor, a $275,000 solar company and a $110,000 global marketing agency |
Its deals
The deals Polyshares lists
Its track record page lists four licenses with company names kept confidential, among them a general contractor at $300,000, a solar company at $275,000 and a global marketing agency at $110,000. It describes each as a perpetual exclusive license. None is independently confirmed.7,8
It takes any company with real operating history, and says the length and texture of the record matter more than headcount. Industries it names run from software and logistics to construction and hospitality.9,10
Personal data
How it handles personal and client data
Polyshares says a specialist third-party partner strips personal data before Polyshares or any lab sees a record, and that data you hold on behalf of your own clients is excluded. It does not name the partner. Its data handling page says two named people at Polyshares see a company's identity alongside its data.11,12,6
Read closely
Where its own pages disagree
Two points need settling in writing. Term: the track record calls its deals perpetual and exclusive, while the data handling page says a defined term, exclusive by default. Listing: the homepage says "No marketplace, no listing", while the data handling page describes buyer-portal listings that carry a code instead of your name.7,6
The company
Who is behind Polyshares
The footer names Polyshares, Inc. and its team page names two managing partners, Nathan Mathews and Ryan Lock. The site gives no state of incorporation, address or phone, and its terms and privacy pages return errors. The domain was registered on 2024-05-08; a 2023 archive copy shows an unrelated crypto investment site, so older complaints under the name may not be about this business.5,13
Process
How it works with each buyer
In each buyer's own published words. Where a buyer publishes nothing, we say so rather than guess.
Check first
How to check Polyshares, or any buyer
The same checks for every company we profile. We state facts; you decide.
- 1.Find the company behind the ad: a legal name, a registered address and named people.
- 2.Ask for a written offer and a sample agreement before you send any data.
- 3.Ask who removes personal data, by what method, and approve it before anything is exported.
- 4.Ask which AI labs will receive the data, and whether you will be told.
- 5.Ask how they are paid: by you, by the buyer, or from a share of your deal.
- 6.Get terms from at least one other buyer before you answer.
FAQ
Questions, answered with sources
Before you sign
Legal questions go to the licensing company
We do not answer legal questions. Ask the licensing company before you sign: their team reviews these with you.
Questions for this kind of business
- Is our license perpetual or for a defined term, and is it exclusive?
- Do customer, vendor or platform contracts, NDAs or API terms restrict this?
Questions for any buyer
- Is the license exclusive, and for how long?
- Can you sublicense the data, and to whom?
- Which AI labs will receive it, and will you tell us?
- How long do you keep it, and how is it deleted?
- What is your liability cap, and who indemnifies whom?
- Will the contract ban re-identification of people in the data?
- Who removes personal data, by what method, and do we approve it first?