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