Compare two data programs
Published terms side by side, taken from each organization's own pages. Missing terms are marked, not guessed.
Mercor
View profileOoak Data
View profile- What they do
- Licenses and packages company data for frontier AI labs.
- Licenses company operating archives directly for frontier model training.
- Organization type
- Buyer and intermediary
- Direct buyer
- DataDeals Score: Public Program Transparency
- 82/100
- 85.5/100
- Data types
- Internal communications, CRM and sales, Customer support, Software engineering, Documents and SOPs
- Internal communications, CRM and sales, Customer support, Finance and accounting, Software engineering, Documents and SOPs, Projects and workflows
- Systems named
- Slack, Microsoft Teams, Gmail, Outlook, Salesforce, Confluence, GitHub, Notion
- None named
- Who qualifies
- Legal, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, logistics and other industries; no universal employee minimum published
- Broad business-system support; value depends on size, years of history, breadth of tools and data quality
- Company size
- See who qualifies
- No minimum size published
- How you are paid
- Mercor pays you by wire when the anonymized dataset is delivered, typically 2 to 4 weeks after signing. It says there are no setup fees, extraction costs or deductions.
- Ooak licenses your records directly and pays the company after the work is done. The exact due date is not published.
- Seller fees
- FAQ explicitly states no setup fees, extraction costs or deductions from payment.
- Older official www page explicitly says no hidden fees or seller costs; current live host less specific.
- Payment timing
- Wire on delivery of anonymized dataset to buyer, typically 2-4 weeks after signed agreement.
- Current page says get paid after work; exact contractual acceptance date/payment due period not given.
- Advertised compensation (not an offer)
- No universal payout range on current page
- Current page advertises up to $1M; an earlier indexed version said up to $300K. Neither is a typical or guaranteed payment.
- Exclusivity
- License: not publicly specified
- License: not publicly specified
- Permitted AI use
- Frontier lab receives deidentified asset; downstream permitted-use limits and sublicensing unpublished.
- Ooak anonymizes then prepares material for frontier models; only anonymized dataset retained for license term.
- Privacy
- Process claims automated de-identification, logged access, encryption and no raw-lab access.
- Own pipeline, no third-party raw archive access, PII stripped, sample review and rights check described.
- Retention and deletion
- No specific post-processing retention, termination or deletion terms published.
- Raw archive deletion within 30 days and written confirmation called contract obligation; seller picks exclusions.
- Last verified
- November 9, 2026
- November 9, 2026
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