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Have an offer for your company's data? Check it before you sign.
AIData.Broker's offer check holds a buyer's offer against a valuation of your records and against the buyer's own estimator, and reads that buyer's published terms (75 clauses from 17 buyers, in their own words) for the ones to read first and the questions to send back. Enter what was offered and on what terms; it is free, and nothing leaves your browser.
Who made the offer?
Set each term to what the offer says. Where it says nothing, leave the marked choice and ask the buyer.
Exclusivity
How long the licence lasts
Perpetual if the offer says perpetual, irrevocable or names no end.
What the buyer may do with it
May the buyer pass it on to others?
Look for "sublicense" or "transferable" in the licence grant.
Must you promise you have not licensed it elsewhere?
A warranty that no one else holds the same data on similar terms.
Who removes the personal data?
When you are paid
Days the buyer has to reject the data after delivery
Your company
Our range and the buyer's estimator are worked out from these.
Status
People, at the company's largest
Years of records
Where it is based
Language of the records
What the offer comes to
Now, the amount offered
With the buyer and the amount, you see where the offer sits, what you would keep and what to ask before you sign.
Defined.ai's published terms
The clauses Defined.ai publishes, in its own words, most costly first. Read on the day shown; these terms change, so check the page before you sign.
Licence and use
Licensed through its marketplace, on commercial terms you approve.
“Data is monetized through dataset licensing driven by marketplace demand. Commercial terms depend on the dataset type, usage, and customer needs, and are always aligned with and approved by the partner.”
Our reading: You approve each deal's terms, but the share Defined.ai keeps is not published.
defined.ai, read 11 Oct 2026Other
You must show consent, documentation and the right to commercialise the data for AI training.
“All data must be ethically sourced, including proper consent, documentation, and the right to commercialize the data for AI training.”
Our reading: The rights burden is yours, and a rights file answers it.
defined.ai, read 11 Oct 2026Passing it on
Its licence to buyers is non-exclusive, non-sublicensable and non-transferable, so buyers cannot pass your data on.
“non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable”
Our reading: A protection worth asking every other buyer for.
defined.ai, read 12 Oct 2026
Not published: Revenue share, Payment timing, Licence term. Ask for each in writing.
Research from the buyers' public pages, last read 18 Oct 2026. It is not legal advice and not an offer: a sale needs a lawyer who has read the contract. Nothing you enter here is sent or saved.
An AI company offered to buy my startup's Slack, email and code. Is the offer fair?
Compare it with what buyers publish and with what has actually been paid before you answer. The median published offer for a company's records is $316K per company, while the few public sales have a median of $28.3K per company, and small companies report six-figure offers that expire in 48 hours. Read the licence as closely as the price: one that is perpetual, irrevocable and sublicensable is close to a sale. A second buyer is the real test: in the one public auction of a company's records the last offer reached 2.5x the first bid.