# License AI training data? Start with your company records

> Looking to sell AI training data? A company licenses the records it already keeps: email, chat, tickets and CRM. Who takes them, on what terms.

By Matt Burns, Vaultfish. Canonical: https://vaultfish.com/answers/sell-ai-training-data  
Published: 2026-08-10  
Updated: 2026-10-14

## The short answer

To license AI training data as a company, start with the records you already keep: email, chat, tickets, CRM history and documents. micro1 and Handshake AI run company-data programs with stated payment ranges, and Troveo licenses records as a marketplace. Check your rights to the records before any call.

Search this phrase and you get pages about photo licensing, gig work and phone apps. For a business, the training data is the records it already keeps.

## Which company records count as AI training data?

Email, chat, tickets, CRM history, documents and code from a working business.

[micro1's data partnerships page](https://www.micro1.ai/data-partnerships) lists tiers of $100K+, $500K+ and $1M+ for companies with 30 or more employees, and [Troveo's business page](https://www.troveo.ai/business-data) runs a four-step process that starts with a directional valuation range and needs no access to your systems.

Both are self-reported. My guide to [where to license company data](/answers/where-to-sell-company-data) compares four routes, and the [buyer directory](/buyers) lists each buyer with its published terms.

## Which firms take company records?

[Handshake AI](/buyers/handshake-ai) and [Mercor](/buyers/mercor) run company-data programs alongside micro1. The [Handshake AI evidence page](/answers/is-handshake-ai-legit) and [Mercor evidence page](/answers/is-mercor-legit) show what is checkable on each.

Expert-labor platforms such as Outlier sell contractors' work to labs. As far as I found, none of them takes a company's archive.

## How do I know if my records are worth licensing?

Ask what you can hand over and whether you have the right to. A business with years of records and a legal right to license them has something to offer.

Run the [rights check](/rights-check) before any call, and read [how to license business data to AI](/answers/sell-business-data-to-ai) next. Talk to a privacy or commercial lawyer in your state before you sign.

micro1 may pay us a referral fee if a company we introduce goes ahead with it. [How we are paid](https://vaultfish.com/disclosure)

Figure: comparison of Two ways a company earns from its records: Direct programs (emphasized: Prices stated up front, Stated payment ranges), Marketplaces (Share of each deal). Direct programs state payment ranges up front, while a marketplace pays a share of each deal.

[Apply to micro1's data partnership (paid link)](https://req.micro1.ai/post/74520e8b-4673-4da5-b855-53609aaf6710?referralCode=f82e519e-5d64-4e0e-9574-760c84371cf2&utm_source=referral&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=data_referral) · [micro1's own data-partnerships page](https://www.micro1.ai/data-partnerships)

_Paid link. [How we are paid](https://vaultfish.com/disclosure)_

_Vaultfish helps you run the process. We are not lawyers and this is not legal advice. If you need counsel who knows this area, we can point you to one._

## Sources

- [micro1's data partnerships page](https://www.micro1.ai/data-partnerships)
- [Troveo's business page](https://www.troveo.ai/business-data)