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Company Data Brokerage: Buyers, Prices and Terms

Companies' records (email, chat, tickets, code, CRM) and the archives of defunct companies now sell to AI labs and principal vendors as raw material for RL environments: 62 prices, programs and terms recorded to 11 Oct 2026, up to $12,500,000 for a single archive and a $1 billion over the next 12 months buying program at micro1.

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12 Jan 2026 to 11 Oct 2026
Events by the date they happened
Computed
18 Oct 2026, 17:37 UTC
Live figures daily; sources as reviewed
Source
Company announcements and terms pages, court filings and reporting, each linked; live roles from the labs' and vendors' public job boards.
Method
Version 1. Definitions
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Key findings

  1. 1

    The largest price recorded: micro1 for Spirit Airlines (debtor), $12,500,000 (stated, 3 Sep 2026).

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  2. 2

    micro1: $100K-$2M+ for approved data packages for company operational data (Enterprise Data Partnership) (11 Oct 2026).

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  3. 3

    The largest buyer program: micro1, $1 billion over the next 12 months (9 Oct 2026).

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  4. 4

    micro1 pays referrers $50,000 referral reward (stated, 11 Oct 2026); the terms are in the figure.

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Figure 1

Who is hiring to buy data today (live)

Which labs and vendors have data-acquisition, partnership or licensing roles open right now?

Sample. Read today from the public job boards of 25 AI labs and 14 human-data vendors. Recomputed daily.

The desks a data owner or a broker sells to. Full detail in the report Who Is Buying AI Training Data.

Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Company Data Brokerage: Buyers, Prices and Terms, live data.

Figure 2

Deals and prices paid

What have buyers paid for companies' records and archives?

WhoPrice or terms as published
micro1micro1$100K-$2M+ for approved data packages
micro1micro1$50,284 - $92,776 (example output of micro1's payout estimator)
GreppedGrepped$20K–$5M; 'Up to 6 figures per workspace'
GreppedGrepped$29K to $41.5K
Ooak Data (operating, winding-down and closed companies)Ooak Datafrom $20K (smallest closed) to several hundred thousand dollars
micro1micro1$100k+ (Qualified Enterprise Data Partnerships)
micro1micro1$500k+ (large-scale operational datasets or ongoing participation across multiple teams)
micro1micro1$1M+ (highly unique, proprietary operational data)
micro1 (unnamed sellers)Fortunemore than 50 data transactions in the preceding 45 days
Turing (five to ten failed startups (unnamed))Fortuneaverage in the tens of thousands of dollars
micro1 (Spirit Airlines (debtor))Research Suite by Stretto (chapter11cases.com), docket summary$12,500,000
SimpleClosureSimpleClosuretens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars; potentially millions at enterprise scale
unnamed codebase-buying platform (cited by Troveo) (code owners)Troveo5,000 dollar baseline per repository
Troveo (compiling reported figures)Troveoa few thousand dollars per graded repository; 10,000 to 100,000 dollars per shutdown deal; hundreds of thousands for a complete company archive
Google (Spirit Airlines (In re Spirit Aviation Holdings, No. 25-11897, Bankr. S.D.N.Y.))Research Suite by Stretto (chapter11cases.com), docket summary$10,000,000
Mercor (Spirit Airlines (debtor))Research Suite by Stretto (chapter11cases.com), docket summary$7.5 million alternate bid; also $5.2M, $7M and $10M offers
multiple unnamed buyers (Warmly (spelled 'Wormly' in this source), acquired by HubSpot)The Financial News (fnnews.com), summarizing The Informationas much as $300,000
SimpleClosure (defunct startups (sellers); AI labs and data firms (buyers, unnamed))Forbes$10,000 to $100,000 per company; nearly 100 deals; over $1 million recovered
Sunset (defunct companies (sellers))Forbes'similar prices' to SimpleClosure (whose typical range is $10,000 to $100,000 per company)
SimpleClosure (wind-down and sale) (cielo24 (seller); buyer not named)Forbeshundreds of thousands of dollars
RL environment vendors (neolabs and frontier labs)Epoch AIoften six to seven figures per quarter; $300k-$500k seen by a neolab researcher
RL environment vendors (AI labs)Epoch AIaround $20k per website replica; around $300k for a Slack-grade replica
RL environment vendors (AI labs)Epoch AI$200-$2,000 per task; $20k per task rare
RL environment vendors (AI labs)Epoch AIroughly 4-5x

Sample. 24 records, to 11 Oct 2026, each from the publication linked beside it.

Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Company Data Brokerage: Buyers, Prices and Terms, live data.

Figure 3

Who is buying, and on what terms

Which labs and vendors run programs to buy or license company data, and what do they ask for?

WhoPrice or terms as published
Mercor (companies in eight target industries)Mercoramount not published
Ooak Data (companies (sellers))Ooak DataEarn up to $300K
micro1 (operating companies (sellers); capital from Citi and Hercules Capital)Business Wire (via FinancialContent)$1 billion over the next 12 months
SpaceX (troubled or defunct startups)Bloombergn/a
micro1 (50 partner companies (unnamed))micro1 forum$100K-$2M+ each, 50 companies

Sample. 5 records, to 11 Oct 2026, each from the publication linked beside it.

Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Company Data Brokerage: Buyers, Prices and Terms, live data.

Figure 4

What brokers and referrers are paid

How are brokers and referrers paid when a deal closes?

WhoPrice or terms as published
micro1 (referrers (anyone over 18))micro1$50,000 referral reward
databroker.studio (independent micro1 affiliate) (micro1 (buyer))databroker.studio (Tom Wang, independent micro1 referral partner)$50,000
databroker.studio (independent micro1 affiliate) (micro1 (buyer))databroker.studio (Tom Wang, independent micro1 referral partner)$75,000
Mercor (referrers)Mercorreferral bonus, amount not stated
Grepped (referrers)Grepped10% of what we pay the owner
Grepped (referrers)Greppedup to $100K per referral; reached at an owner payout of $1M
Grepped (AI labs and research teams (buyers, unnamed))Greppedno buyer price or spread published
FileYield (data sellers)FileYield8% for sellers
FileYield (data buyers)FileYield6% for buyers
DataVendor (sellers of codebases, datasets and tasksets)aitrainer.work (third-party referral and job site)seller keeps 80% of each sale
micro1 (referrers)micro1 Inc.seven and one-half percent (7.5%)
micro1 (referrers)micro1 Inc.no amount (discretion clauses)
Grepped (Erik Newsham)ARR Club$4M MRR ($48M ARR run rate)
BuyMyDeadStartup (buyers of dead-company archives)BuyMyDeadStartup$1,500 a month
SimpleClosure (venture-backed startups (sellers); foundation labs and RL-environment builders (buyers))SimpleClosure press release (syndicated via Webull)more than $10 million
micro1 (multiple customers)TechCrunchas high as 80% to 90%
ProtegeThe Financial News (fnnews.com), summarizing The Informationfrom $30 million last year to at least $100 million this year
Ooak Data (multiple frontier labs (unnamed))Y Combinator (Launch YC post by Ooak Data)well above 7 figures in revenue; data from 20 companies
Verb (consumers (sellers); AI labs expected as biggest buyers)Axiosno price disclosed
Mercor (referrers)UsagePricing (third-party pricing tracker)up to $100K per referral (shown 29 Jul to 22 Sep 2026)
Troveo (7,000+ licensors (rights holders))Troveoover $20 million paid out; 95 percent of licensors exclusive
micro1 (referrers)micro1 forumup to $25,000 per referred company; $5,000,000 committed to the program
LabelSets (dataset sellers)Toolradar (third-party tool directory)15% commission; sellers keep 85%
Datarade (Monda) (data providers)ZoomInfo Pipeline (competitor of Datarade)30% commission

Sample. 24 records, to 11 Oct 2026, each from the publication linked beside it.

Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Company Data Brokerage: Buyers, Prices and Terms, live data.

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AITraining.jobs (2026). Company Data Brokerage: Buyers, Prices and Terms (live data, 12 Jan 2026 to 11 Oct 2026). https://www.aitraining.team/research/company-data-brokerage (accessed 18 Oct 2026)

BibTeX

@misc{aitrainingjobs_company_data_brokerage_live,
  author = {{AITraining.jobs}},
  title = {Company Data Brokerage: Buyers, Prices and Terms (live data, 12 Jan 2026 to 11 Oct 2026)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.aitraining.team/research/company-data-brokerage}},
  note = {Accessed 18 Oct 2026},
}
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