How Data Licensing Report researches and compares providers

Data Licensing Report lists every provider it finds that publicly invites businesses to license or sell their internal records for AI and pays for them, and describes each one on the same fixed fields, from the provider’s own current pages first, with every claim linked and dated.

Which providers are listed?

A provider is listed when it says publicly that it will pay a business for internal records such as email, chat, documents, business-software records, recordings or code, for use in AI. Payment can come from the provider itself or from the buyer it introduces. That covers AI data companies that license directly, licensing agents and marketplaces, introducers, and wind-down platforms that buy from closing companies. The Type column in the buyers table shows which is which.

Programs that fall outside this test are not in the table, such as general data marketplaces, where any data product is listed for any buyer, and programs that license media or medical data rather than companies’ internal records. Several that owners are likely to come across are listed under “Other channels” on the buyers hub, each with the reason it falls outside the test.

The same test applies whether or not a provider has a commercial relationship with Data Licensing Report. Being listed means a provider meets the test. It is not a rating.

As of October 2026, 25 providers meet the test and are in the table, and 9 programs that owners are likely to come across are listed under Other channels, each with the reason it falls outside it. If a provider you know of is missing, it either falls outside the test or has not been found yet: email corrections@sellcompanydatatoai.io with a link to its program page.

What does each profile record, and where does it come from?

Every profile and every comparison uses the same fields:

Field	What it records
What they buy	The data types and record categories the provider names
Who they buy from	Operating or closing companies, and any size or history thresholds it publishes
Payment model	Upfront, revenue share or both, as the provider describes it
Published ranges	Only figures that are public, quoted with their source and date
Process	The steps the provider publishes, from first contact to payment
Data handling	The provider’s own description of anonymization and handling
Geography	Where it says it operates or buys
How to apply	A link to its own application or contact page
Not publicly stated	What we looked for and did not find (see below)

Each field is researched from the provider’s own current pages first: its program page, FAQ, terms and application form. Independent reporting comes second and is attributed to the outlet that published it. Every entry links its source and carries the date it was checked, shown as “as of” that date.

A provider’s own figures, such as total payouts, deal sizes or typical ranges, are presented as its statements, not as market facts. A number produced by a provider’s calculator is labeled as a calculator output.

What does “Not publicly stated” mean?

It lists things an owner would want to know before going further, such as a revenue-share percentage, payment timing or named AI customers, that we looked for on the provider’s public pages and did not find, with the date we checked. It does not mean the provider is hiding them. Some providers say their terms are set deal by deal, and those terms appear only in an offer. Each item is a question to put to the provider directly.

A blank field, shown as a dash in the tables, is different. It means no entry has been recorded for that field yet. It is not a finding that the provider does not publish it.

How are the “Is it legit?” fields filled in?

Each profile answers “Is it legit?” with five facts an owner can check, filled the same way for every provider:

• Founded: the founding year the provider publishes, or that is reliably reported. If none is published, the date its website domain was registered, worded “Website domain registered [month and year]; no founding date published.”
• Leadership: the people the provider names on its website. If it names none, the entry reads “No leadership named on its website,” with the month checked.
• Headquarters: where the provider says it is based.
• Backing: investors, a parent company or funding, as published by the provider or reported.
• Public track record: figures the provider has published and deals reported about it, each attributed to whoever stated it.

A recently registered domain or a website that names no one is stated plainly, because it tells an owner what to ask. The same rules apply to every provider, including Telegraph Lab, which is commercially affiliated with Data Licensing Report.

How often is the information checked?

Every provider in the buyers table is re-checked against its own pages each month, and sooner when news changes a provider’s program or terms, such as a launch, a funding round or a reported deal. Each table row shows its last-checked date, each fact its “as of” date, and each page its “Updated” date. The market facts list follows the same monthly cycle.

How can a provider correct something?

Email corrections@sellcompanydatatoai.io with the page, the statement to correct, and a public source that shows the right information, such as the provider’s own current page. We check the change against that source, correct the single facts record that feeds every provider table, and update any page that discusses the fact, with a new “as of” date.

Corrections follow the same rule as the original research: a claim that cannot be linked to a public source is not added. Owners, advisors and other readers can report errors the same way.