01
Take inventory
Which systems you use, how many years each one holds, and how much is in them. Buyers ask for the inventory first. We write it down with you.
Data licensing
Your firm’s records may have a buyer. Know the terms first.
RFI 214Level 3 transfer beam
From Engineer 14 to Contractor 3
Per Client 7’s revised loading, the W24x84 no longer works at grid C-4. We can upsize to a W27x94 or add a column at C-4.5. Recommend the upsize. The column blocks the lobby sightline the owner rejected in March.
Outcome Upsize approved. Change order 31, six days.
What you get from us
A straight answer on whether your records are licensable, what they might bring, and on what terms.
The work
Run it like a sale.
Because it is one.
The first offer comes from the buyer, on the buyer’s paper. We run it as a sale.
02
Sort what is yours
Client deliverables and anything under an NDA are often not yours to license. We separate those from your own internal records before a buyer sees a file. Your contracts and your counsel decide what can go in.
03
Get more than one offer
In the bidding for Spirit Airlines’ records, offers for the same archive ran from $5 million to $10 million, The Next Web reported. We take your inventory to more than one buyer and bring back the offers side by side, terms included.
04
Hold the terms
Length of exclusivity, who the data can be passed to, when you are paid, and who strips the names out. You sign with the buyer; we stay on your side of the table.
What buyers publish
The numbers
are theirs.
These are the tiers on micro1’s program page, in its own words, as of October 2026. They are not a quote and not a promise. What a firm is offered depends on its records, its systems and its rights to them.
- $100k+
- Qualified Enterprise Data Partnerships
- $500k+
- Large-scale operational datasets or ongoing participation across multiple teams and business functions
- $1M+
- Highly unique, proprietary operational data with significant value for frontier AI development
Worth a conversation when
Does this
sound like you?
- 01
Around 50 people or more, mostly doing office work.
- 02
Three or more years in the same email, messaging and project systems.
- 03
Work that happens in writing: reviews, estimates, approvals, exceptions.
- 04
Based in the US, with records in English.
Before you sign anything
Five terms
worth holding.
None of this is legal advice. It is what to ask about before a lawyer bills you to find it.
No perpetual license
Ask how long the buyer’s exclusivity runs and the date it ends. A license with no end date is a different deal from one with a term.
Names out by a third party
Not by you, and ideally not by the buyer. With a date, and written proof the raw copies are gone.
A limit on who gets it next
Ask who the buyer may pass your records to, and ask for that to be named or narrowed.
You choose the scope
Which systems, which years, which teams. Anything you exclude never leaves.
A payment date
Know when you are paid, how long the buyer has to accept the records, and what lets it walk away inside that window.
How it goes
Three steps.
You can stop at any one.
You decide at each step whether to go on.
01
A 15-minute call
We ask what you do, what systems you run and how long you have run them. You hear whether it is worth going further.
02
Inventory and rights
We write up what you hold and mark what can and cannot be licensed. Your own counsel should read it. Nothing has left your systems.
03
Offers, then your call
We bring back offers and walk you through the terms. If you go ahead, the agreement sets who removes the names and when. If you do not, we close the file.
Fair questions
Before you
reply to anyone.
Who is actually buying this?
Companies that prepare training material for AI labs. Two of them, micro1 and Mercor, publish their programs openly. micro1 asks for records of how teams make decisions. Mercor says public data and synthetic datasets cannot replicate how work happens inside companies.
What about our clients' confidentiality?
It is the first thing to settle, and it rules some records out. Material you produced for a client under contract and anything under an NDA should stay out unless your agreements clearly allow it. Regulated personal data and export-controlled data should stay out unless your counsel clears it. We mark those before any conversation with a buyer, and we tell you if what is left is too thin to bother with.
What leaves our systems, and when?
Nothing until you have signed an agreement you are comfortable with. Ask for names, companies and identifying details to be replaced before the buyer receives the records, for an independent firm to do that step, and for written confirmation that the raw copies were deleted.
How is Pinprick paid?
Nothing up front. Our fee is a share of a completed deal, agreed with you in writing before we approach a buyer. micro1 and Mercor both publish referral rewards for whoever introduces a seller. Where one applies, we tell you the amount in writing.
Why would we say no?
Good reasons exist. Your client agreements may forbid it. You may not want your methods improving a tool your competitors can use. Or the money may be small next to the attention it takes. We would rather you decide that with the facts in front of you than from a cold email.
Pinprick is a marketing firm. Why this?
We make ads, build websites and run outbound for companies. Finding the right buyer for something a business already owns, and getting fair terms for it, is the same work. We are not a law firm and we never hold your data. For the agreement itself, use your own counsel.
Plain answers
Read before
you decide.
Five short guides with every source linked. They include the reasons not to do this.
- Can a company license its data to AI labs, and how does it work?
- How much is a company's data worth to AI labs?
- Is the data licensing email legitimate? How to check who is behind it
- What terms matter in an AI data licensing agreement?
- What company data can't be licensed?
Sources for this page, checked October 10, 2026: micro1: Enterprise Data Partnerships program page; Mercor: Monetize your data program page; micro1: company referral program page; The Next Web, August 18, 2026: terms of Google's Spirit Airlines data agreement; The Daily Brief (Rajesh Beri), October 10, 2026: micro1 program terms and rights risks.
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Find out if it is worth your time.
Tell us what your firm does and roughly how many people work there. Nick will reply himself, and the first call takes 15 minutes.
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