Compare two data programs
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Appen
View profileScale AI
View profile- What they do
- Prepares company records and handles licensing discussions with AI labs.
- Runs an ongoing data partnership for companies' de-identified workflows.
- Organization type
- Intermediary
- Direct buyer
- DataDeals Score: Public Program Transparency
- 79.5/100
- 54/100
- 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, Documents and SOPs, Projects and workflows, Meetings and calls, Field and physical operations, HR and recruiting
- Systems named
- None named
- Slack, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, Zendesk, Jira, Confluence, Notion, SAP, Asana, Linear, ServiceNow
- Who qualifies
- Companies holding substantial historical workflows and rights; employee minimum not established on reviewed page
- 40+ employees preferred starting point; case-by-case assessment
- Company size
- See who qualifies
- 40+ employees preferred, not a stated requirement
- 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.
- Scale describes recurring partner revenue, but does not publish who pays, how pricing works or when payment is made.
- Seller fees
- States Appen covers extraction, anonymization and transfer, with no seller costs.
- No explicit seller charges or no-fee statement found in current official program page.
- Payment timing
- Payment on acceptance rather than submission; no stated number of days or invoice rule.
- No public payment acceptance, billing, or due-date terms found.
- Advertised compensation (not an offer)
- No public fixed price
- No fixed payout range on reviewed official page
- Exclusivity
- License: not publicly specified
- License: Negotiated per deal
- Permitted AI use
- Frontier AI training is described, but sublicensing and onward recipient permissions remain unspecified.
- Frontier AI model use clear, but downstream access/sublicensing specifics not made public.
- Privacy
- Read-only isolated encrypted pipelines, enforced exclusions, anonymization and seller sample sign-off.
- Identities de-identified, encryption and seller sign-off/audit trail; on-prem/VPC options named.
- Retention and deletion
- Approval before use is explicit; deletion, retention and termination deadlines are not public.
- Per-package approval and exclusion rights published; retention/deletion schedule absent.
- Last verified
- November 9, 2026
- November 9, 2026
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