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What to expect on a first call about licensing your data
A first call on data licensing covers systems, history and restrictions, never files or logins. See the usual agenda and a ten-item prep list.
Who sees your data during a licensing process?
Who sees your data when licensing it to AI developers, stage by stage: what the intermediary, buyers and your own team see, and which agreement governs each.
Why AI data deals are moving from publishers to operating companies
The AI data licensing deals trend is moving from publishers and forums to operating companies' workflow records. What changed, and what it means for you.
Why does AI still struggle with real business workflows?
Why AI struggles with business tasks: the context, exception and judgment gaps that real-work benchmarks reveal, and the records that help close each one.
Why don't companies talk publicly about licensing their data?
Why confidential AI data deals rarely make the news: four reasons companies stay quiet about licensing data, and what each means when you judge the market.
Why vertical AI startups want data from companies like yours
Why vertical AI startups need data from operating companies, and which records match what construction, field service, freight and quality AI teams build.
Your software vendor wants to use your data for its AI: should it pay you?
When a software vendor wants to use customer data for AI, decide what you give up and what to ask for in return: an opt-out, firm limits, credits or a fee.