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Polyshares: what it takes, how it earns, what to check

A buyer that licenses a company's operational data for a defined scope and term, says it anonymizes it, and supplies AI labs. Its data handling page says buyers see de-identified listings in a buyer portal, and that you keep the business and the underlying data.

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

Slack, email, CRM, tickets and files, per its site.

Who it takes

Any company with real operating history, per its site. It says record length and texture matter more than headcount. No employee minimum stated.

Not stated on the pages we read.

How it earns

Licenses the data, says it anonymizes it, and supplies AI labs.

Its site says there is no fee and no commission to the company on a license. It does not say which labs take which data.

Process
  1. Check your data by picking the systems you use and answering a short intake.
  2. A sample is read after anonymization and before pricing.
  3. Its data handling page says the record is listed de-identified in a buyer portal, under a code instead of your name.
  4. Offer within one to two weeks of intake, per its terms page.
  5. Payment net 30 to 60 once the data is approved, shared and anonymized.
Payout claims
  • Deals of $100K to $2M and above for large records, offer in one to two weeks.
  • Case studies list four perpetual exclusive licenses: a roofing company at $450K, a general contractor at $300K, a solar company at $275K and a global marketing agency at $110K. Companies are unnamed and the page is undated.

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

Security claims
  • No certification published on the pages we read.
  • Says a specialist PII partner, unnamed, removes names, emails, phone numbers, account numbers and addresses before Polyshares reviews the record.
  • Says two people at Polyshares can see an unmasked record.
  • Says nothing moves before an offer is accepted.
De-identification and privacy

It says an outside partner strips identifying fields, and that roles, timestamps and work content stay.

Its data handling page says identifiers are stripped before Polyshares or any lab sees the record, and names two people who can see identity alongside the anonymized data.

An article by co-founder Ryan Lock says Polyshares never touches raw files. The same page says listings in its buyer portal carry no company name, website, people or exact locations.

Terms for companies

  • License or ownership. Its site says you keep the business and the data, and that a license is not a sale.

    It covers defined systems for a defined term, exclusive unless agreed otherwise. Read the full terms before you sign.

  • Your warranties. Not published.
  • Your indemnity and audit. Not published.
  • Liability cap. Not published.
  • Governing law. Not published on the pages we read.

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.

  • Every figure is Polyshares' own. No outside review or named lab customer found.
  • The article says Polyshares never touches raw files, and its data handling page says two Polyshares people can see an unmasked record.
  • Its homepage says "No marketplace, no listing", while its data handling page describes de-identified listings in a buyer portal. Ask who can see a listing.
  • The broker program is described in an X article and not on the site.
  • The anonymization partner is unnamed.
  • The full license, warranties and liability terms are not public.
  • Its homepage says the founders licensed data on their own companies first, and the partner bios name Roofer.com and Simplicity Solar. The case studies include a roofer and a solar company without saying whether those are the founders' own firms.
  • All four published case studies are perpetual exclusive licenses. Ask whether a shorter or non-exclusive term is on offer before you sign.

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