Can You Legally License Your Records? The Rights Check, System by System
You can license the records your company owns and has the right to license. The rights check works system by system — contracts, privacy notices and platform terms decide which parts of an archive count, and anything you cannot license is excluded before a buyer sees a sample.
SellMyDataForAI.com helps U.S. companies with 20+ employees license their operating records — email, chat, CRM and project data — to AI labs and training-data buyers. Owners keep ownership of their data; valuation starts with a metadata-only manifest, and no raw data is shared to get an estimate.
Email and chat: whose records are they?
Work email and team chat are the company's records, but they contain employee personal data and, often, client-confidential material. Your employee notices and client contracts decide what can be licensed, usually in de-identified form.
Practical check: read what your handbook and privacy notice say about monitoring and use of company systems, and what your client agreements promise about confidentiality. Where a contract promises a client's material will be used only to serve that client, that material is excluded or requires consent — it is never quietly included.
CRM and support records: what about customer information?
CRM and ticket history are valuable because they record your team's work — and they name your customers. Customer personal data is de-identified or excluded; what buyers pay for is the work pattern, not your customer list.
No buyer program in this market asks you to hand over an identifiable customer list, and several state the opposite. If any intermediary asks for raw customer data up front, that is a reason to stop, not proceed.
Accounting and project files: what limits apply?
QuickBooks history, project files and case files are usually the company's own records, subject to client confidentiality terms and sector rules — consent and privilege duties for law firms, patient-data exclusion anywhere healthcare is involved.
Sector rules are handled as exclusions, not obstacles: privileged matter content, patient information (PHI) and candidate profiles are kept out of scope entirely. Operational records — how the work was scheduled, billed, delivered and resolved — are the licensable asset.
What do the platform terms say?
Some tools restrict bulk export or third-party training use in their terms of service. A rights check reads the terms for the systems in your manifest before anything is submitted.
This is a real and recent issue — major platforms have tightened API and export terms around AI training. Buyers run the same check in diligence; surfacing a restriction early protects the deal and the price. This page is general information about how the market works, not legal advice about your company — that is a question for your own lawyer, and the check is designed to give them a clean file to review.
Do you qualify? The 90-second fit check
The introduction service on this site is built for U.S. companies with 20 or more employees, 3 or more years in business, and records in 5 or more systems — such as email, chat (Slack or Teams), shared files, a CRM, support tickets, project tools, or accounting software. Individual buyers set their own floors, which may be higher (for example 30+ or 50+ staff) or lower for specific industries, and each buyer’s own floor controls for its program.
Fit floor (published): 20+ full-time staff · 3+ years of records · 5+ data sources (email, Slack/Teams, Drive/SharePoint, CRM, support, QuickBooks, calls, code, project files). The interactive checker loads here; if it does not, the interview itself runs the same check in seven minutes.
Book the 7-minute interviewNo files are uploaded in this check. Nothing is sent to find out.
Questions owners ask first
Is this a sale or a license?
A license. You keep ownership of your records and keep using them in your business. A buyer pays for the right to use a de-identified copy for AI training, on terms — length, exclusivity, permitted use — that you approve before anything is signed.
Do I have to send my data to get an estimate?
No. The estimate and the first call use only what you describe: systems, years and rough counts. Buyers bid on a metadata-only manifest. Full data moves only after you sign a license directly with a buyer, and personal data is de-identified before transfer.
What does it cost me?
$0 upfront. There is no retainer and no listing fee. We are paid a success fee only if a deal closes — the terms are stated in writing before any submission is made.
How long does a deal take?
Buyers’ published timelines put most deals at six to twelve weeks from first contact to payment. That range comes from the buyers’ own pages, checked November 2026, and individual deals vary.
What if no buyer bids, or I don’t like the offers?
You walk away and owe nothing. The manifest stays yours. Comparing offers before signing anything is the entire point of putting several buyers in front of the same manifest.
Do you buy personal or phone data?
No. This is for companies: the operating records of a business with 20+ staff. We do not buy personal, browsing, phone or survey data, and buyers exclude customer and employee personal data from these deals.