QualifyDataQualifyDataHello. We want to introduce you to a program you may not be familiar with, because most companies aren't — yet.
AI developers pay to see how real work moved through a real business — the emails, the invoices, the tickets, the day-to-day records your team created over the years. They license a cleaned copy of those records, with the names taken out. You keep your originals. Nothing about how you run your business changes.
We've spent thirty years running companies of our own, and we'll tell you plainly: this is one of those rare programs that sits in plain sight while most owners have never heard of it. The owners who check are the ones who find out what their archive is worth. Checking costs you five minutes and nothing else.
Five minutes. See if your archive qualifies.No cost. No commitment. No logins, no records handed over — just a few questions about the size of your archive.
Your records are still growing, and that is fine — the years you've already built are the asset. Start with the estimator and see where you stand.
Start with the estimator →Then your records are a finished asset sitting in accounts you may be about to cancel. That page is written for you — including the one deadline that actually matters.
Read the closed-companies page →You can take your records straight to a single AI company yourself. Plenty of owners do. You will get exactly one number — theirs — and it is take it or leave it.
And if you try to shop it yourself, you run the whole process again for every lab — the calls, the data intake, the sorting through bids — once per company. With QualifyData you go through it one time, and it reaches 15 companies.
There is no need to submit to one buyer direct. We do the work for you. QualifyData does high volume, and we have negotiated excellent rates with the top AI labs. We put your archive in front of 15 AI companies, let them bid for the best price available, and submit the best offer to you. You don't sort through bids — that's our job.
And through all of it, you deal with one party: us. Hand your name to a lead-generation company and your phone lights up — dozens of buyers, each with a pitch. That never happens here. Your name is not sold, shared, or passed along. We do the work, we run the bidding, and when the bidding is done we come back to you once, with the best bid. One contact. One call.
Five minutes. See if your archive qualifies.You never hand over a login, and you see every number in writing before you commit to anything.
We follow one job through your systems and answer your questions. No data, no logins, no commitment.
A client services agreement lets us represent you. It doesn't commit you to a deal, and your attorney is welcome on a call first.
60 to 90 minutes. Your team shares a screen or fills in a sizing sheet — system by system, how far back, how much. We see counts and sizes only. No records, and nobody gets a login.
That list — with no actual records in it — goes out through our broker network to 15 AI companies. They bid. We compare the bids and submit the best one to you, in writing.
You and your attorney review the terms, and you sign directly with the AI company behind that offer.
Your team exports copies, with help through every step — typically 5 to 10 business days. The buyer then checks the export against the list, a review of about 30 days.
The AI company pays you the license fee directly.
From signing to money in the bank is typically 90 to 120 days. Timelines are typical, not promised — and no offer is guaranteed.
The general shape: a business in the US, Canada, the UK or Australia, running for 3+ years, with 20 or more people working at desks. In fields like healthcare and dental, law, accounting and tax, and finance, as few as 10 can be enough. The systems that count are the ordinary ones — email, documents, chat, your CRM, project tools, accounting, HR, databases. The AI companies make the final call on fit, and that call starts with the five-minute check.
And from the first minute, you stay in control of the part that matters:
Published deals, and buyer ranges shown at the sizes we qualify — examples of what archives have sold for, not a promise of what yours is worth. Your number only exists as a written offer after the intake call.
AI companies are in a land grab for operational data right now. They have committed billions of dollars to licensing the records of how real businesses actually work — the email, tickets, documents, and workflows their models learn from — because that material cannot be scraped from the internet or made up. It has to come from companies like yours.
That window is not permanent. At the pace the labs are buying, the next 12 to 24 months fill most of the need: once a lab has trained on enough of a category, it stops paying for more of it. The same math works inside every category. The first escrow company whose archive goes into a lab's training set is worth a great deal to them. The two-hundredth escrow company is worth a fraction of that, if they need it at all. Owners who license while their category is still being bought are the ones who see the strongest offers.
It depends on three things: how many different sources the work ran through and what kind of data they hold, how many people worked at desks — now or at peak — and how many years of records you kept. Case studies from AI labs run from $150K to $550K, and higher for large archives. Your own number only exists as a written offer after the intake call. The estimator gives you the rough range first.
You can. Your records are yours, and nothing in the process forces a date. But what an archive is worth depends on how much of your category the AI labs still need. They are buying aggressively right now because their models are being trained right now. As a category fills up over the next 12 to 24 months, each later archive in it is worth less — and eventually a lab may not need another one at all. The owners who move while the window is open are the ones who get the strongest offers.
No. You will never get a call from an AI lab, and your name is never sold or handed to buyers. We run the bidding ourselves, and when it is done you hear from us once — one call, with the best bid in writing. Lead-generation companies sell your name to everyone; that is the opposite of how this works.
The records that show how real work got done: email, team chat, documents and spreadsheets, CRM history, support tickets, project files, accounting records, HR and payroll records, and databases. A long paper trail of ordinary work is exactly what they are paying for.
AI companies that train models on how real businesses operate, and the data companies that supply them. QualifyData works with 15 of them. Instead of taking one buyer's number, your archive is put in front of all of them and they bid.
No. You license a cleaned copy of your records for a set term. Your originals stay yours, you keep using them, and the license has an end date. It is a license, not a sale.
Never. We never touch or access your data — not during the intake, not during the export, not ever. The intake covers counts and sizes only. Your records go straight from your systems to the AI company you sign with.
More questions? See the full Questions page — cost, timing, fit, and legality are all answered there.
QualifyData is run by operators, not marketers. Our team has run its own companies for thirty years — including one with 150 employees — and we talk to owners the way we'd want to be talked to: numbers in writing, no pressure, and a straight answer when the answer is "we don't know yet."
Your introduction runs through QualifyData — one call, one point of contact. Behind us is a network of brokers and the top AI labs. Our job is to get your archive in front of all of them and bring you the best offer they put up.
We never touch or access your data. Not during the intake, not during the export, not ever. Your records go straight from your systems to the AI company you sign with — we are never in that chain.
And your business never pays anything.