Questions owners ask about licensing their records.
Every answer we give on the site, in one place.
Licensing your records
You can, through a license. An AI company pays to use a copy of your records for training and testing its models, and your business keeps the originals.
No. A license lets an AI company use the records, the way a photographer licenses a stock photo. You still own them.
Models learn how work gets done from records of real work, and most of those records sit inside private businesses, out of reach of the public web. Follow one job through its records to the paid invoice and a model sees each decision along the way.
Frontier AI labs and other companies that build models for business work. You see which AI company an offer comes from before you decide on it.
An AI company may use licensed records only for the purposes the license names, like training and testing its models.
Yes, for records your business has the right to share. Customer contracts and privacy notices can limit that right, and we point out those limits early, before you sign anything.
Fit and records
The fit check counts a business with 10 or more employees as a fit for a first call. AI companies usually look for at least two to three years of records, and a bigger team with a longer history has more to license.
The records your team creates while it works: service jobs, sales orders, support tickets, project files and invoices, plus the email and chat about them. Records that tie a request to the work and its result are worth the most.
AI companies usually look for at least two to three years of complete records as a starting point. The more of your records follow a job through to its finish, the more they're worth to a company training AI models.
Yes, and records that link up are worth more. A ticket that quotes an order number, or an email thread about a job, ties two systems to the same piece of work.
Yes, when each one is tied to the job or part it was made for. Photos, drawings, CNC programs and inspection reports show a model how the work was done.
No. Leave your records where they are. The first call is a conversation, so there's nothing to prepare.
Price and payment
AI companies name the figure in their offers once they've seen what's in scope, so nobody can quote it on a first call. Team size, years of records, how fully each job is recorded and clear rights to license all move the price.
The AI company makes an offer once it has seen what's in scope, so nobody can quote a figure before then. You decide whether to take it, and we help you weigh it.
Nothing up front. The fee depends on the license, and before you sign anything you'll see in writing who pays it and how much.
The license you sign sets how payment is structured. Depending on the offer, you're usually paid at set milestones as the license moves forward, and you see that schedule before you agree to it.
Yes, unless your license gives one AI company sole use of them for a set time.
Privacy and control
No. SixOne Partners never logs in to your systems, and the first call runs on what you tell us. Records leave your business only after you approve what's shared.
Names and contact details are swapped for numbered tags, like Customer 1 and Email 1, before any copy of a record is made. You see the cleaned copy before it goes to an AI company.
Yes, and AI companies often ask for them, because email and chat hold the reasons behind the work. Staff and customer names are swapped for tags before any copy is made, and HR files stay out.
No AI company learns your name until you say it can. Until then, AI companies see a summary of your records with your name left off.
Models serve many users, and a competitor could be one of them. Keep anything you treat as a trade secret, like pricing or margins, out of scope.
A trained model can't unlearn what it has seen, so treat what you license as permanent. A license can require the AI company to delete its copy when the term ends, and anything you'd regret sharing should stay out of scope.
Working with us
Nothing. You can stop after the first call or turn down any offer later.
You tell us how your business runs and which systems hold its records, and we explain how licensing works. If your records aren't a fit, you hear it before the call ends.
A first call to start. If you go ahead, whoever runs your systems answers most of the questions that follow.
An AI company writes its offer on its own terms. SixOne Partners acts only for the business that owns the records: we vet each AI company before its offer reaches you, and we go through every term with you before you decide.
Find out where your business stands.
Answer four questions about your business and we'll take it from there.
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