Compare two data programs

What they do

Prepares company records and handles licensing discussions with AI labs.

Data lab that usually licenses records itself and sometimes brokers deals with AI labs.

Organization type

Intermediary

Buyer and intermediary

DataDeals Score: Public Program Transparency

79.5/100

Not scored

Data types

Internal communications, CRM and sales, Customer support, Finance and accounting, Documents and SOPs, Projects and workflows, Field and physical operations, HR and recruiting

Internal communications, CRM and sales, Customer support, Finance and accounting, Software engineering, Documents and SOPs, Projects and workflows, Meetings and calls, Field and physical operations, Design and product

Systems named

None named

Slack, Microsoft Teams, Gmail, Outlook, Jira, QuickBooks, SAP

Who qualifies

Companies holding substantial historical workflows and rights; employee minimum not established on reviewed page

Only US-headquartered and US-operating companies per official site; records must be licensable

Company size

See who qualifies

No minimum size published

How you are paid

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.

Its indexed pages say it usually pays sellers as the contracting party, but sometimes brokers a direct deal with a lab instead. Its FAQ says there is no listing fee or seller commission. Payment timing could not be verified.

Seller fees

States Appen covers extraction, anonymization and transfer, with no seller costs.

Indexed official FAQ says no listing fee or seller commission; cannot inspect current full homepage directly.

Payment timing

Payment on acceptance rather than submission; no stated number of days or invoice rule.

Payment timing/conditions and acceptance process not verifiable from accessible seller materials.

Advertised compensation (not an offer)

No public fixed price

No universal seller range published

Exclusivity

License: not publicly specified

License: not publicly specified

Permitted AI use

Frontier AI training is described, but sublicensing and onward recipient permissions remain unspecified.

AI labs receive prepared materials; scope of sublicense and role-switching varies by deal and is not specified.

Privacy

Read-only isolated encrypted pipelines, enforced exclusions, anonymization and seller sample sign-off.

Marketing discusses de-identification; linked privacy page pertains to an unrelated SEO service rather than dataset processing.

Retention and deletion

Approval before use is explicit; deletion, retention and termination deadlines are not public.

Dataset retention/deletion and seller termination are not verified in an operative seller license.

Last verified

November 9, 2026

November 9, 2026

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