Compare two data programs
Published terms side by side, taken from each organization's own pages. Missing terms are marked, not guessed.
Actual Data
View profileAppen
View profile- What they do
- Buys or licenses operating records directly from companies.
- Prepares company records and handles licensing discussions with AI labs.
- Organization type
- Direct buyer
- Intermediary
- DataDeals Score: Public Program Transparency
- 60.5/100
- 79.5/100
- Data types
- Internal communications, CRM and sales, Documents and SOPs, Projects and workflows
- Internal communications, CRM and sales, Customer support, Finance and accounting, Documents and SOPs, Projects and workflows, Field and physical operations, HR and recruiting
- Systems named
- None named
- None named
- Who qualifies
- Targets companies with roughly 30–200 staff and mature operating processes
- Companies holding substantial historical workflows and rights; employee minimum not established on reviewed page
- Company size
- 30+ employees preferred, not a stated requirement
- See who qualifies
- How you are paid
- Actual Data makes a direct offer based on volume, complexity, uniqueness, quality and domain expertise. It does not name the paying entity, seller fees or when payment is due.
- Appen covers extraction, anonymization and transfer at no cost to the seller. Payment follows acceptance of the data, but Appen does not say whether it or the AI lab pays, or how many days payment takes.
- Seller fees
- No statement of seller charges, commissions or explicit fee-free arrangement found on program/application.
- States Appen covers extraction, anonymization and transfer, with no seller costs.
- Payment timing
- No due date, acceptance condition or seller invoice mechanism identified on reviewed official pages.
- Payment on acceptance rather than submission; no stated number of days or invoice rule.
- Advertised compensation (not an offer)
- Website estimator $285,896–$604,463; illustrative, not a quote
- No public fixed price
- Exclusivity
- License: not publicly specified
- License: not publicly specified
- Permitted AI use
- Training/evaluation use and no public sharing are described, but sublicense and onward-access permissions are undefined.
- Frontier AI training is described, but sublicensing and onward recipient permissions remain unspecified.
- Privacy
- Promises sensitivity scrubbing and confidential-data removal, but allocates few concrete compliance obligations.
- Read-only isolated encrypted pipelines, enforced exclusions, anonymization and seller sample sign-off.
- Retention and deletion
- Original records said to be retained only for processing and deleted afterward; no measurable deadline or exit remedy.
- Approval before use is explicit; deletion, retention and termination deadlines are not public.
- Last verified
- November 9, 2026
- November 9, 2026
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