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Defined.ai: what it takes, how it earns, what to check

A data lab with a long-running marketplace for licensed datasets. It wants datasets with consent documentation, not whole company archives.

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Type
AI lab or data lab. Licenses or partners for the data itself, under its own agreement.
Legal entity
Defined.ai (Seattle headquarters, per its press release)
Data it wants

Third-party and custom datasets across text, audio, image, video and sensor data.

It is currently seeking cinematic video, anime-style media, code and STEM content (its partnerships page).

Who it takes

No fixed minimum dataset size. Partners need consent and licensing documentation.

Not restricted on the pages we read.

How it earns

Licensing fees from marketplace sales. Its cut is not published.

Process
  1. Enrolment with an ethical questionnaire.
  2. Clearance with dataset-level forms.
  3. Onboarding after satisfactory completion.
  4. Ongoing compliance monitoring.
Payout claims
  • 65% revenue growth in 2025, the company's own figure. It says nothing about what your company would receive.
  • Its partnership page quotes partner revenue figures. We leave them out: they are undated, unaudited and predict nothing for your company.

Public figure, see sourceSelf-reported by the company unless marked reported.

Security claims
  • States ISO 42001 certification on its supplier terms.
  • Its ethics page also claims ISO 27001 and 27701 (per our research notes, not re-read today).
  • Says it is GDPR compliant.
De-identification and privacy

Requires consent and licensing documentation from the partner and runs an ethics and compliance review before listing.

Terms for companies
  • License or ownership. Non-exclusive, with no minimum commitment for either party.
  • Your warranties. Suppliers provide rights and consent documentation. The full terms are in its supplier general terms and conditions. Defined.ai may audit a supplier once a year, or sooner if it suspects a material breach, with at least 15 business days' notice.
  • Your indemnity and audit. Section 3.4 of its supplier terms: the supplier defends, indemnifies and holds Defined.ai harmless against third-party claims arising from the supplier's breach of the terms. Any obligations from Defined.ai in return are left to a separate data license agreement.
  • Liability cap. The supplier's liability under its indemnity is limited to two times the total value of business conducted between the parties.
  • Governing law. Washington State law.

Our guides go further: how Defined.ai uses your company data.

Check before you share anything

These are facts from the company's own pages or from news and court reports, listed so you can ask about them. They are not verdicts. Companies change their terms, so confirm each one on the company's own page.

  • Its partner revenue figures are unaudited and undated.
  • Its fee split is not published.
  • It lists licensed datasets and does not target small-company archives.
  • The supplier indemnifies Defined.ai, and the terms leave Defined.ai's own obligations to a separate data license agreement.

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Not sure whether your data can be licensed at all? Read the risk map before you fill in any intake form.

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. We never judge a specific contract and never touch your data. Dollar figures are the source's claim and promise you nothing. Ask for a referral