micro1 data partnership: how the program works

One transfer now can lead to a second, smaller one later.

A micro1 data partnership is a deal where micro1 pays a company under an agreed data partnership for use of its workplace records, or for employees' graded work with an AI agent.

Its data partnerships page lists tiers from $100K+ to $1M+. It describes three ways in: a corpus deal, a workflows track and a referral.

In plain words

Data licensing means a company gets to use your records for a while, under rules.

Think of it like this

Picture an attic full of old boxes. micro1 wants to read through them, and it pays you under a partnership agreement.

Every number in this guide comes from micro1 describing itself, on its pages or in an undated recorded forum talk. Read each as a claim, not a measured result.

We read micro1's pages and worked from the recording of a forum talk by its CFO and team, the third Company Data Partnerships session. The recording has no date and its captions are automatic, so a few figures carry a "verify" flag below.

What does micro1 say it is?

In an undated recorded forum talk, micro1's team called the company a data lab. It trains and improves AI models and agents by supplying data in formats models learn from. Its company data page says it helps organisations turn operational data into revenue.

For the company profile and funding figures, see what is micro1.

The pitch for company data is simple. Hired experts build synthetic training environments that imitate the real world. micro1's CFO said the best training environment is the real world itself.

A real marketing budget request shows who asked, which tools they used, which spreadsheets changed and who approved it. That chain from request to deliverable is the product. The names and vendor line items matter less.

What are the three ways in?

1. Corpus deal. This is the Enterprise Data Partnerships track, a partnership covering a company's data corpus.

micro1 says companies keep ownership of their underlying data. Confirm licensed uses, duration, exclusivity and payment structure in the proposed agreement.

micro1's page lists $100K+, $500K+ and $1M+ tiers set per deal, and its Enterprise Data Partnership listing says $100K-$2M+ for approved data packages.

Its CFO said in an undated recorded forum talk that deals near $2 million are real. In the same talk, David Revland, who works on human data at micro1, said it may come back about six months later for a top-up covering data created since the first transfer.

2. Workflows track. Employees use a general-purpose AI agent on their real daily work and grade how it did. They also say how it should have done the task. micro1 receives the evaluation and the agent's trajectory.

In the undated talk, the CFO described pay per completed task in the high hundreds of dollars for a couple of hours of work. We could not confirm that figure word for word in the captions (verify).

The company chooses how many employees take part and how often. A company can run both tracks.

3. Referral. micro1 also pays people who introduce a company. If someone introduced you, ask them in writing whether micro1 pays them.

What is the process for a corpus deal?

micro1's David Revland described seven steps in the undated recorded forum talk.

A referral, a peer introduction or organic contact starts it.
A first call with a data partnership manager.
A data manifest form on micro1's data platform, as described in the undated talk.

It asks which services you use (Google Workspace, Slack, project management tools, GitHub and so on) and rough sizes per tool. micro1 supplies instructions for finding sizes, for example in Google Drive.
micro1 sends a payment proposal.
Contract language.
The transfer, with micro1's forward-deployed engineering team helping your IT people. In the undated talk, the CFO estimated about 10 hours of work from one or two of your IT people over a week or two. How long a transfer takes has the detail.
micro1 verifies the delivered data and then pays.

The page version is shorter. It lists four stages: a simple assessment, an evaluation, a discovery and privacy discussion, and a partnership agreement. The talk's seven steps are the same path in more detail.

Who qualifies?

micro1's current public criteria list 30+ employees, mature operations and primarily English documentation, with US companies prioritized. Acceptance depends on its review and current demand. Confirm exceptions directly with micro1.

Employees. The data partnerships page and the referral page say 30 or more.
Operations. Mature operations with established documentation, knowledge bases, CRM metadata and project histories.
Language. Primarily English. The pages give no percentage.
Place. US companies first, then other Western markets.
Volume. The pages state no data-size threshold. A storage count still helps you describe your records.

The undated recorded talk gave earlier, different figures: at least 20 full-time employees, about 1 TB across the corpus and about 80% English. It also named any industry, a US and Canadian preference and no cap on the number of companies.

Those figures are history, and they do not decide who qualifies now. Every company goes through micro1's evaluation. The referral page says a referral does not guarantee acceptance.

What happens to personal information?

Personal information here means names, emails and phone numbers. micro1's CFO said in the undated talk that it does not want any.

In the same undated talk the CFO said every corpus goes through a scrubbing step, which it samples at several points before use. The page says personal information "is removed when relevant."

Revland said micro1 swaps names instead of blacking them out. A name is replaced with a consistent stand-in across every platform. The same person keeps the same stand-in in Slack and in Google Workspace, so the role and cross-tool trail survive.

For that reason micro1 staff said in the undated talk that companies cannot pre-scrub. The same talk said removing names first would destroy the trail micro1 needs. micro1 refers to its own data trust principles.

Counsel and regulators treat swapped names with caution. The UK ICO says pseudonymised data is still personal data for anyone who holds the extra information. The union objection in the Spirit Airlines sale turned on the same worry (Time).

Ask micro1 who holds the mapping between real and stand-in names, and how long it keeps it.

The page also says data is held in isolated pipelines. It is kept for agreed periods and deleted on request or at the end of the engagement, in line with the contract. We found no security certification published by micro1.

What should you ask before the first call?

Which of my systems does the manifest cover, and which stay out?
Who sees the data besides micro1, and does the contract name the AI labs that receive it?
Who holds the real-to-stand-in name mapping, and for how long?
What does the contract say about my warranties, the promise to protect micro1 from lawsuits (the indemnity) and any cap on micro1's liability? Reps and warranties shows the published pattern.
If micro1 is breached, who pays and who notifies? See who is liable after a breach.
Is the payout one-time, and is a top-up possible?

Before any call, run the rights check on the systems you plan to include. Customer contracts, employee conversations and tool terms such as Slack's API terms all sit between you and a clean deal.

The risks page lists what the companies publish about security and removing names. Want a person to organise the facts? Managed readiness is the service we run. We never take custody of your data.

What does micro1's own video add?

A micro1 referral partner spoke in a micro1 video. The publish date is not stated, the video is promotional, and she earns from referrals. Her statements differ from the undated recorded talk in places, so both are printed here.

Payout clock. Payouts typically arrive about 60 days after the company engages with micro1, with "engaged" undefined. The undated recorded talk and micro1's pages give no day count (about 2:54).
Form and payment proposal. The form takes under 10 minutes and a payment proposal follows within a few days (about 2:20 and 2:34).
License or sale. She calls it a license in which the company keeps full access. In the earlier, undated talk the CFO called the corpus track a one-time sale (about 12:29). micro1's current page says companies keep ownership of their underlying data.
Removing names. She says it removes names, emails and phone numbers. Revland described a consistent stand-in swap (about 13:27).
IT effort. She says no IT team is needed. In the undated talk the CFO said about 10 hours from one or two IT people (about 12:12).

What does micro1 say you gain?

Two things.

First, a new revenue stream from data you already store. Second, for the workflows track, a team that works with AI agents more fluently, "more AI native" in micro1's phrase.

micro1 reports a large business, and its pages name no lab clients. Weigh both claims with that in mind.

Compare it with the other published routes in the buyers directory and the deals tracker. Read how to license company data to AI companies for the whole market. 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

Apply to micro1's data partnership (paid link)micro1's own data-partnerships pagePaid link. How we are paid

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. Ask for a referral