From Matt's desk
Eyy! I'm Matt Burns.
I'm obsessed with building communities people obsess about. This site helps you find out if the records your company already has could land a deal with an AI lab.
Matt Burns, Austin, Texas.
Why this site exists
Your company already paid to create years of email, chat, tickets and CRM notes. Some AI labs pay to learn from records like these. Few sites explain how a company gets in on it, so I wrote one.
I read the public deals, compare the buyers and put their terms on the table, so you know who takes companies like yours before you talk to anyone.
The fit check, a discovery call, the tools, the guides and introductions are free to your company. You see your result before I ask for anything.
Our only referral relationship is with micro1, an AI data company. It may pay us a fee if a company we introduce goes ahead with it. You pay nothing extra. We never take a percentage of your deal. No buyer pays to be listed or ranked. How we are paid
It started with a game
I wanted to get better at a team game called Overwatch. I figured community was the answer, but there was nowhere to share plans, help each other and team up. So I built the place.
r/CompetitiveOverwatch grew past 150,000 members before I passed it to the moderators.
Nearly a decade at monday.com
I joined as employee number one in the US. The whole company was a couple dozen people. Nearly a decade later we took it public, at nearly 4,000 people.
I wore a few hats along the way. I built and ran four teams from scratch. I hired and onboarded hundreds of people and managed more than 150.
Fast Company, Forbes, NBC News, Built In and CIO have covered my earlier work. The links live on the press page.
These days I also run ProveWorth, a review site for online communities that I built without an engineering team, and Digital Gravity, the community studio I co-founded with my wife, Nicole.
What I've learned so far
- Public deals for company data are few. The deals page lists each one I have found, with dates and sources.
- Most payout ranges come from the buyers themselves, so I label them that way.
- Rights come first. Records you can't license stay off the table.
- Some records are worth a phone call. The fit check is a quick first screen for which ones.
How I write the guides
Every claim links to a source in the list at the end of the page, and I'm responsible for what each page says. If something's wrong, tell me and I'll fix it and date the update.
Say hello
Send a company, ask a question or tell me I got something wrong.
