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Updated October 2026

Can you sell your company's data to OpenAI or Anthropic?

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Not directly, for most companies. The data deals AI labs have published are with large publishers and platforms. Operating companies reach the labs through licensors that buy company data and license it on: micro1 alone has committed $1B to that.1,2,3

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What labs publish

The deals labs have published are with publishers

OpenAI's published content deals are with News Corp (reported at more than $250M over 5 years), the Financial Times ($5M-$10M a year) and Axel Springer (about $13M a year). Google pays Reddit about $60M a year, Reuters reported. We found no published program from OpenAI or Anthropic that buys operating data directly from businesses.1,2,4,5

There is one notable exception to the publisher pattern: in Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy, Google bid $10M directly for the company's internal archive.6

The deals labs have published are with publishers
FactValue and source
News Corp and OpenAI

More than $250M over 5 years (WSJ)

[1] Quartz ·

Financial Times and OpenAI

$5M-$10M a year

[2] Quartz ·

Axel Springer and OpenAI

About $13M a year

[4] Quartz ·

Reddit and Google

About $60M a year (Reuters, citing sources)

[5] TechCrunch ·

Spirit Airlines internal archive

$10M from Google, against a $7.5M Mercor bid

The court has not ruled on the sale; the approval hearing was moved to 2026-11-06.

[6] Bloomberg Law ·

How companies reach the labs

Through licensors that buy company data

micro1, Mercor, Polyshares, Nyne, Cognor Labs, Ventra and Troveo publish programs to license operating data from companies. micro1 says it licenses SOPs, knowledge bases, CRM metadata and project history, and has committed $1B over 12 months to buying company data. MIT Technology Review reported that AI labs are buying training data from startups that have shut down.7,8,9,10,3,11

These licensors generally do not say which labs receive the data. That is the first question to ask: which AI labs will receive it, and will you tell us?

What they want

What labs' suppliers ask companies for

Mercor lists Slack, Teams, Gmail, Outlook, Confluence, Salesforce, GitHub, Drive, Notion and 100+ other tools. micro1 asks for internal docs, SOPs and playbooks, knowledge bases, project workflows, internal comms, templates, CRM and workflow metadata, and task histories.12,13

Size floors apply. micro1 asks for 30+ employees, US first and mostly English data. Nyne asks for 20+ US W-2 employees and 3+ years in business. Polyshares says any company with real operating history.14,15,16

FAQ

Questions, answered with sources

  • Its published deals are with publishers: News Corp (more than $250M over 5 years), the Financial Times and Axel Springer. We found no published OpenAI program for operating companies; those sell through licensors such as micro1 and Mercor.1,2,4,17

  • We found no published Anthropic program that buys operating data from businesses. Companies that want to license to the labs work through licensors; micro1 has committed $1B over 12 months to buying company data.3

  • Most do not publish it. Ask before you sign, and ask whether the license lets them sublicense to anyone else. Troveo, for one, describes its deals as licensing on a revenue share.9

  • Usually nothing: Mercor, Polyshares and Ventra say they charge sellers no fees, though Ventra may add fees with notice. Brokers that sit between you and the licensor can take a cut, such as Jottings at 20-30% of proceeds and FileYield at 8%.18,19,20,21,22

  • Published ranges mostly run $100K to $2M, as the buyers' own claims: micro1 and Polyshares state $100K-$2M+ per package, Cognor Labs and Ventra $100K-$2M, and Jottings up to $1M+ for rare data. Nyne says $100K or more, and Mercor does not publish a price.17,23,7,8,24,25,26

  • Google bid $10M for Spirit Airlines' internal archive in its bankruptcy, against bids from Mercor and micro1. The court has not ruled on the sale yet.6,27

  • We do not answer legal questions. Ask the licensing company: their team reviews this with you before anything is signed.

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

  • 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?

How this page was made

Every figure comes from a published source listed below, each with the date we checked it. Buyer statements are the buyer's own claims and are marked so in the source list. Firm counts come from the US Census Bureau's Statistics of US Businesses. Anything marked as our estimate is ours, not a buyer quote.

Drafted with AI assistance from our research files, then checked against each source. Reviewed 14 Oct 2026. Last updated 14 Oct 2026.

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Sources (27)

  1. 1.Quartz. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  2. 2.Quartz. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  3. 3.The Next Web, published 9 Oct 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  4. 4.Quartz. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  5. 5.TechCrunch, published 22 Feb 2024. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  6. 6.Bloomberg Law, published 17 Aug 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  7. 7.Cognor Labs partners page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  8. 8.Ventra company data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  9. 9.Troveo, published 11 Sep 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  10. 10.beri.net, published 10 Oct 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  11. 11.MIT Technology Review, published 13 Oct 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  12. 12.Mercor Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  13. 13.micro1 Enterprise Data Partnership page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  14. 14.micro1 company referral page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  15. 15.Nyne sell-company-data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  16. 16.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  17. 17.micro1 company referral page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  18. 18.Mercor Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  19. 19.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  20. 20.Ventra terms of service, published 30 Sep 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  21. 21.Jottings how we get paid page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  22. 22.FileYield data buyers page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  23. 23.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  24. 24.Jottings how we get paid page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  25. 25.Nyne sell-company-data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  26. 26.Mercor Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  27. 27.AI Weekly. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.