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Ooak Data: what it takes, how it earns, what to check

A Y Combinator-backed lab that licenses anonymized company operating data as training material for frontier AI models.

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Type
AI lab or data lab. Licenses or partners for the data itself, under its own agreement.
Legal entity
Ooak Data, Inc.
Data it wants

Operational, strategy and business data: documents, project management, CRM and sales, financial records, product analytics, wikis, code repositories, email and chat.

It values the links between tools more than isolated files.

Who it takes

No minimum published. Its estimator starts at 1 to 10 people and 2+ years of history, and covers operating, winding-down and closed companies.

Not stated. It says it checks jurisdiction and requirements during scoping.

How it earns

Not published. Ooak licenses the anonymized dataset to AI buyers under a code name.

Process
  1. A 15-minute call to map workflows and tools, with an estimate.
  2. You pick systems and date ranges. Exclusions are annexed to the contract.
  3. A joint count of volume and coverage, under an hour of your time.
  4. Ooak's own engine anonymizes the data, and you review a sample before delivery.
  5. Payment. Your raw archive is deleted within 30 days of delivery, as a contract term, with written confirmation.
Payout claims
  • Its headline says up to $300K, paid in 2 to 4 weeks.
  • Its FAQ says deals to date run from $20K, the smallest closed, to several hundred thousand dollars.

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

Security claims
  • No certification named on the page we read.
  • Says only Ooak handles the raw archive and its QA team works on the anonymized output.
  • Says it has recorded zero re-identification incidents. No method is shown.
De-identification and privacy

One entity dictionary replaces names, companies and addresses the same way across every source, and faces, logos and signatures are blacked out. Consistent stand-ins keep records linkable.

Terms for companies
  • License or ownership. Its FAQ says the contract licenses the records for training only, with your exclusions annexed. Only the anonymized dataset is kept, for the license term.
  • Your warranties. Not published.
  • Your indemnity and audit. Not published.
  • Liability cap. Not published.
  • Governing law. Not published.

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.

  • The zero re-identification claim is its own record, with no method shown.
  • Consistent replacement keeps records linkable across sources, which raises the stakes if one stand-in is traced back.
  • No buyer is named.

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