Direct or through us

Every buyer on this site will deal with you directly. Here is what that costs you.

You can write to micro1, Handshake or Polyshares today, and for some holders that is the right call: the last section says when. What you give up is the competition between buyers, a say in the terms, and the money each buyer sets aside for whoever brings you in.

50%

the first bid was, of the price the same records sold for once other buyers bid

35% more

one buyer offered for the same records when a single term changed

$50K

a buyer sets aside for whoever brings it a company like yours

$347K

a sale through us has to reach to beat a direct offer of the same company

What a sale through us gives you

Faster, more likely to sell, and for more than you would get alone.

Faster

Alone, a company writes to one buyer, waits for an answer and then tries the next. An unknown company's email rarely gets a reply, and buyers rarely review data without a datasheet.

We already know who buys what and each buyer's published rules. We describe your data to every buyer whose rules it meets at the same time, without naming you, and each one that is interested gets your datasheet after its written undertaking.

Who buys, and what each asks for

More likely to sell

Most sales of company data stop on rights and personal data: who owns each part, which contracts limit it, and whether the people in it are protected. A buyer drops data that cannot answer.

We settle the rights questions with you before any buyer sees anything, your records are de-identified on your own computer to a published standard, and we approach only buyers whose rules your data meets.

Our de-identification standard

For more

One buyer means one offer, and the first number is often the lowest. Alone you have nothing to compare it with, and terms such as exclusivity, onward sharing and when you are paid change what an offer is really worth.

Competition sets the price: the same datasheet goes to every interested buyer on one deadline, you see every offer with what you would net, and we decline the fee some buyers pay whoever introduces a company, asking them to put it into your price.

In the one public auction of a company's records, Spirit Airlines', the opening bid was 50% of the price competition reached.

Direct, or through us

You lose nothing

Only you pay us, and only out of a sale: no sale, no fee. In a sale we run no buyer pays us, so we earn more only when you are paid more. You decide every offer and can leave any buyer out, the buyers you already talk to stay yours, and a valuation commits you to nothing.

One buyer sets a price. Several find it.

The one sale of a company's own records run as an open auction on the public record is Spirit Airlines', in a US bankruptcy court in 2026. Google opened at $5M. The court let others bid: Mercor bid against it, and Google signed at $10M. After the auction closed, micro1 offered $12.5M. Nothing about the records changed between the first number and the last; only the number of buyers bidding did.

Many buyers resell what they buy. One was reported to earn gross margins as high as 80 to 90 percent on off-the-shelf datasets it resells, and another says it will beat a qualifying written offer for the same data and rights. Both suggest the first number is not the most a buyer can pay.

A bankruptcy court runs an auction because the law requires it. An operating company gets one only if someone runs it. That is the work: we put your data in front of every buyer that fits, at the same time, and you choose the offer. Every disclosed sale.

The terms move the price as much as the headline.

In the same auction Mercor offered 35% more for the same records when it could remove personal data with its own tools instead of a third party's. A holder selling direct signs the buyer's paper. micro1's master terms, for one, give it 30 business days to reject the data, let you invoice only after it accepts, make you refund what it paid if it later finds your description materially wrong, and let it license your data on to others.

We have read 65 clauses of buyers' contracts, and we negotiate yours term by term: exclusivity priced as exclusivity, payment on delivery rather than on acceptance, who removes personal data and at whose cost. What each buyer asks for.

The money a buyer keeps when you write to it yourself

Buyers pay people to bring them companies. On a sale that pays the holder $300,000, the ones that publish it set aside $10K to $50K for whoever introduces the company. Write to a buyer yourself and that money stays with the buyer.

Several buyers pay whoever introduces a holder. In a sale we run we decline that money, tell you beside each offer what that buyer pays introducers where it publishes it or tells us, and ask it to put that amount into your price instead. If you choose instead to apply to one buyer through its own referral programme, that buyer pays us its published payout as well as our fee, and you see the amount in writing before you choose.

For the same company, a sale through us has to reach $347K for you to net what a $300,000 direct offer pays: the largest of those budgets is $50K on its own.

What each buyer sets aside for whoever introduces a company, on a sale that pays the holder $300,000
Buyer	On a $300,000 sale	In its own words
Mode (BizBuyData)	$50,000	The greater of $50,000 or 6% of the licence fees paid to the company for an introducer's first five qualified US referrals, 6% outside the US, paid after the transaction completes. Mode reviews existing claims before assigning credit; the binding agreement is not published.
Scale AI	up to $50,000	Up to $50,000, paid only if Scale signs a partnership agreement.
The General Data Company	up to $50,000	Up to $50,000 when a data partnership is signed, under a written referral agreement; the amount depends on the size of the partnership.
Grepped	$30,000	10% of what it pays the owner, up to $100,000, plus 2% of the fees of referrers a referrer brings in. Its terms forbid a referrer from helping the owner sell or license the data any other way, for 12 months after they end.
HUMXN Research Labs	$30,000	10% of the value of the data deal, up to $100,000 per deal, for deals signed within 12 months of the introduction, paid within 30 days of closing.
micro1	$22,500	Up to $50,000 per referred company (up to $25,000 at the programme's launch in June 2026), 7.5% of the licence price where no amount is posted, and a referral field of $75,000 on its posting for shut-down companies; a partner who recruits another partner earns 20% of that partner's payout on top.
Polyshares	$18,000	6% of the price it pays the company, paid on top of that price, to brokers registered in its portal, as its co-founder states publicly. A company whose name or email is already in its system cannot be submitted again, so the first record keeps the credit.
Mercor	$15,000	5% of the deal, up to $100,000, paid after the company's first delivery (shown in its referral app; the public page names no amount).
Handshake AI	$10,000	"You can earn $10K for each successful referral that becomes a Handshake AI data partner and completes its data transfer" (FAQ on its data-partnerships page, read 17 Oct 2026).
Turing (Lazarus)	up to $10,000	Up to $10,000 per referral.

Mode (BizBuyData)
On a $300,000 sale
$50,000
In its own words
The greater of $50,000 or 6% of the licence fees paid to the company for an introducer's first five qualified US referrals, 6% outside the US, paid after the transaction completes. Mode reviews existing claims before assigning credit; the binding agreement is not published.
Scale AI
On a $300,000 sale
up to $50,000
In its own words
Up to $50,000, paid only if Scale signs a partnership agreement.
The General Data Company
On a $300,000 sale
up to $50,000
In its own words
Up to $50,000 when a data partnership is signed, under a written referral agreement; the amount depends on the size of the partnership.
Grepped
On a $300,000 sale
$30,000
In its own words
10% of what it pays the owner, up to $100,000, plus 2% of the fees of referrers a referrer brings in. Its terms forbid a referrer from helping the owner sell or license the data any other way, for 12 months after they end.
HUMXN Research Labs
On a $300,000 sale
$30,000
In its own words
10% of the value of the data deal, up to $100,000 per deal, for deals signed within 12 months of the introduction, paid within 30 days of closing.
micro1
On a $300,000 sale
$22,500
In its own words
Up to $50,000 per referred company (up to $25,000 at the programme's launch in June 2026), 7.5% of the licence price where no amount is posted, and a referral field of $75,000 on its posting for shut-down companies; a partner who recruits another partner earns 20% of that partner's payout on top.
Polyshares
On a $300,000 sale
$18,000
In its own words
6% of the price it pays the company, paid on top of that price, to brokers registered in its portal, as its co-founder states publicly. A company whose name or email is already in its system cannot be submitted again, so the first record keeps the credit.
Mercor
On a $300,000 sale
$15,000
In its own words
5% of the deal, up to $100,000, paid after the company's first delivery (shown in its referral app; the public page names no amount).
Handshake AI
On a $300,000 sale
$10,000
In its own words
"You can earn $10K for each successful referral that becomes a Handshake AI data partner and completes its data transfer" (FAQ on its data-partnerships page, read 17 Oct 2026).
Turing (Lazarus)
On a $300,000 sale
up to $10,000
In its own words
Up to $10,000 per referral.

What we cost

The first $250,000

15%

of what you are paid in that band

From $250,000 to $1 million

10%

of what you are paid in that band

Everything above $1 million

of what you are paid in that band

Only the holder pays us, a fee fixed in the mandate, and only if a sale closes. In a sale we run no buyer pays us, so our fee depends on what you are paid, not on which buyer pays it. A buyer pays us only if you choose to apply to it through its own referral programme, and you see that amount before you choose. Buyers first get a description that does not name you, you can leave any of them out, and nothing about your records goes to any buyer without your mandate. Work it out for your sale.

When to go direct

Your records are worth less than a small company's data usually sells for
When even the optimistic case of the valuation is below $26,000, what a small company's data sold or was priced at on average across the 8 such records in our price ledger, we do not take the sale: the valuation says so and names buyers or marketplaces whose published rules may fit you, so you can go to one yourself.
You already have a buyer you trust, on terms you like
Take it. If you sign a mandate with us anyway, every buyer you were already talking to is listed in it and stays yours, with no fee on a sale to them.
You have a deal team, counsel and several buyers already calling
Large publishers and platforms usually run their own sales, and buyers often approach them directly. You may already have the competition a sale run by us would bring.

The valuation tells you which side of this line you are on: which buyers' rules fit, what their calculators would show, and whether we would run your sale.

Value your data Every buyer and its rules