What your company data is worth to AI labs.
A typical license through Allied runs $100K–$2M, with no fee to you. Volume, years of history and depth set where yours lands.
Prices on the public record
Most licenses are private. These are the figures that have been disclosed.
Reddit disclosed data licensing contracts worth $203.0 million in total, with terms of two to three years.1
In Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy, Google won the auction for the carrier’s records, including about 100 million emails, with a $10 million bid. The data company Mercor was the backup bidder at $7.5 million.4
A founder closing a small crypto startup netted roughly $25,000 for its code base, with a further sum pending for its Slack, Google, Notion and Figma workspaces.2
SimpleClosure’s Asset Hub, which helps closing startups sell their code and workspace data, has handled over 150 deals. 47% of SimpleClosure deals now include a code or data sale.2
Labs pay these sums because agent work in support, sales and engineering barely appears on the public web. See the six systems labs license.
What sets the price
Volume
Messages, tickets, calls or commits. More is worth more, up to the point where it repeats itself.
Years of history
Long records show how decisions played out. A year is usually the minimum.
Depth
Threads where people argue, decide and follow up. Bot alerts and newsletters add little.
Which systems
Each system is priced on its own. Several systems from the same team tell a fuller story than one.
Outcomes attached
Closed deals in the CRM, resolved tickets, merged code. Labs pay for work they can grade.
Exclusivity
Licenses are non-exclusive by default. An exclusive license costs the lab a premium.
What lowers it
Thin history
Under 25 employees or under a year of records rarely clears a lab’s minimum.
Heavy exclusions
Removing most channels or years removes most of the value. HR, legal and board material is excluded anyway.
Unclear permission
Employee policies or customer contracts that never contemplated licensing must be fixed first, or the deal stalls.
Permission comes before price
The FTC has warned that quietly rewriting a privacy policy or terms of service to allow AI training on data already collected may be unfair or deceptive.3 Records gathered under old promises need those promises checked first.
No federal law bans selling workplace records, though at least one employment-law scholar argues employers should get workers’ express consent.2 We review your employee policies and customer contracts before making an offer, and names, contact details and customer identities are removed before anything leaves. How anonymization works.
Questions about price
Is there a price per message or per gigabyte?
No public rate card exists. Labs value records by what their models can learn from them, so two offers for similar archives can differ widely.
Why is the Allied range so wide?
Because volume, history and depth vary that much between companies. The written offer after the discovery call is the real number.
Do I pay anything to find out?
No. The buyer pays Allied. The questionnaire and the call are free.
Does selling to one lab stop me selling to another?
No, unless you accept a premium for exclusivity.
Sources
- Reddit, Inc., Form S-1 registration statement, February 22, 2024
- MIT Technology Review, “AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models,” October 13, 2026
- Federal Trade Commission, “AI (and other) Companies: Quietly Changing Your Terms of Service Could Be Unfair or Deceptive,” February 13, 2024
- Skift, “Google Scoops Up Spirit Airlines’ Data in Bankruptcy Sale to Train AI,” August 17, 2026
Find out what your records are worth.
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