Best ways to sell call center and BPO data to AI companies
By Gareth HoyleLast updated How we research
In short
The best ways to sell call center and BPO data to AI companies are a vetted broker such as Sell My Data To AI, or a license with Mercor, Polyshares, Labelbox Prism or Defined.ai. ddiy.co reported Mercor's listing at $20,000 to $250,000 for call centers. Ownership comes first, because outsourcers usually hold recordings as their clients' processor.
Key takeaways
- Mercor is best for centers of 50 to 5,000 agents on cloud tools.
- Polyshares is best for operators that want one fixed payment and no fees.
- Labelbox Prism is best for high-volume B2C support operations.
- Sell My Data To AI wrote this list and ranks itself first. The method section explains the criteria.
- Every entry's facts come from the company's own published terms, checked November 2026.
Call centers and BPOs hold real conversations with real outcomes: call recordings with transcripts, chat and email transcripts, QA scorecards linked to calls and agent knowledge bases. Voice agents and customer service models need that material. Our call center data page and call recording data page explain what buyers look for.
ddiy.co reported Mercor's referral listing at $20,000 to $250,000 for call centers of 50 to 5,000 agents. Polyshares names call recordings and support tickets among the records it buys, and Labelbox Prism prefers high-volume B2C companies for support logs.
An outsourcer usually holds client recordings as processor under UK GDPR Article 28, so it needs the client's instruction to license them. PCI Security Standards Council guidance bars card validation codes in recordings, and Illinois BIPA bars profiting from voiceprints. Our de-identification guide covers redaction.
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Sell My Data To AI
Best for BPOs that need client permissions and redaction checked first
Sell My Data To AI values call center recordings, transcripts and QA records and brokers licenses with vetted AI buyers. Our eight-point seller vetting checks client data processing agreements, the recording notice in force and the de-identification method. You pay nothing to be assessed, approve every buyer, sample and license term, and agree the success fee in writing before any introduction. We do not take custody of your raw data.
- Fee to seller
- Nothing to be assessed. A success fee only when a deal completes, agreed in writing before any buyer introduction
- Seller vetting
- Eight-point standard, from authority to sign to manifest accuracy, before any buyer sees your data
- Buyer vetting
- Company identity, intended use, security and retention, onward transfer limits and, for larger deals, ability to pay
- Data custody
- No custody of raw data. Buyers see redacted samples under a mutual NDA
- Your control
- You approve every buyer, sample and license term, and can withdraw at any point before signing
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Mercor
Best for centers of 50 to 5,000 agents on cloud tools
Mercor pays businesses to license workflow data from more than 100 supported tools and covers extraction, anonymization and transfer costs. ddiy.co reported in October 2026 that Mercor's referral page listed $20,000 to $250,000 for call centers. Mercor says an automated process masks more than 60 categories of sensitive identifiers and typically pays by wire within 2 to 4 weeks of signing.
- Published payout
- Not published on mercor.com/data. ddiy.co reported Mercor's referral page listing $20,000 to $1.5 million by industry (October 2026)
- Size requirement
- Not published on mercor.com/data. Target industries include legal, healthcare, finance and insurance, professional services, manufacturing, retail, real estate and logistics
- Exclusivity
- Not published
- Fee to seller
- None. Mercor covers extraction, anonymization and transfer costs
- Payment timing
- Wire transfer after delivery, typically within 2 to 4 weeks of the signed agreement
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Polyshares
Best for operators that want one fixed payment and no fees
Polyshares is a direct buyer that licenses a company's operational record, from Slack and email to CRM history, support tickets and call recordings, and supplies AI labs itself. It sets no headcount minimum, charges no fee or commission, makes an offer within one to two weeks and pays net 30 to 60 days. All four published licenses, from $110,000 to $450,000, are perpetual and exclusive.
- Published payout
- $100,000 to $2 million and above typical. Four published licenses range from $110,000 to $450,000
- Size requirement
- No headcount minimum. Any company with real operating history, in any sector
- Exclusivity
- All four published case studies are perpetual exclusive licenses. Its terms page does not state exclusivity
- Fee to seller
- None. No fee and no commission
- Payment timing
- Offer within one to two weeks. Net 30 to 60 days after data is approved, shared and anonymized
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Labelbox Prism
Best for high-volume B2C support operations
Labelbox Prism acquires operational data for frontier AI developers and says it prefers high-volume B2C companies for support logs. It lists consented likeness and voice among the categories with buyer interest, which need explicit, timestamped consent. It publishes deals from around $50,000 to more than $1 million, pays an upfront fee plus a revenue share and makes licenses exclusive by default.
- Published payout
- From around $50,000 (smaller targeted datasets) to more than $1 million (large enterprise partnerships)
- Size requirement
- Not published. Prefers high-volume B2C companies for support logs
- Exclusivity
- Exclusive by default, tailored to scope, sensitivity and strategic value
- Fee to seller
- Not published. Scoping is free and non-binding
- Payment timing
- Upfront fee at signing plus revenue share. Prism says first call to first wire takes under 21 days
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Defined.ai
Best for speech datasets across many languages
Defined.ai runs an AI data marketplace where enterprises buy ready-made or commissioned speech, text, image, video and multimodal training data. It cites more than 1.6 million contributors across more than 150 countries and more than 500 languages and locales, lists ISO 27001, 27701 and 42001 accreditation, and says only 30% of partners pass its ethical vetting. Seller revenue share and payment timing are not published.
- What it buys
- Lists speech, text, image, video, music and sound effects, and multimodal datasets from partners
- Size requirement
- Not published. Partners pass an ethical vetting process, and Defined.ai says 30% are approved
- Fee to seller
- Not published
- Payment timing
- Not published
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Protege
Best for audio and speech data with clear rights
Protege licenses real-world data from data holders to AI model builders, from startups to frontier labs, in healthcare, video, audio and speech, spatial and physical data and other domains. Its site covers pre-training, post-training and evaluation data, including healthcare benchmarks built on clinical documentation. It does not publish payouts, exclusivity, fees or payment timing, and data partners start through a contact form.
- Published payout
- Not published
- Size requirement
- Not published
- Exclusivity
- Not published
- Fee to seller
- Not published
- Payment timing
- Not published
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micro1
Best for established centers with support tickets and CRM records
micro1 licenses operational records such as engineering documentation, finance SOPs, support tickets, CRM records and logistics workflows, and supplies them to AI labs and enterprises in the US and allied countries. Its data partnerships page publishes tiers from $100,000 to more than $3 million, asks for 30 or more full-time staff and mainly English records, and says micro1 removes or transforms personal information before sharing data.
- Published payout
- $100,000 to $500,000 (qualified partnerships), $500,000 to $3 million (large-scale or ongoing), more than $3 million (highly unique data). Agent trajectories listed at $1 million to $2 million a year
- Size requirement
- 30 or more full-time staff, mainly English records, US first, then the UK and Canada
- Exclusivity
- Not published
- Fee to seller
- None stated
- Payment timing
- Homepage says within 30 days of acceptance. FAQ says up to 30 days to review, then payment within 30 days of invoice
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SellMyData
Best for smaller operations with Zendesk and email exports
SellMyData is a broker that de-identifies company data, such as messages, code, documents, records and tasks from Slack, GitHub, Salesforce, QuickBooks and Zendesk, and sells it to AI labs. It sets no minimum headcount, charges nothing upfront, takes a commission when a sale closes, lets sellers approve every buyer and term, and targets payment within 7 days of a sale closing.
- Published payout
- Not published. Price set by data type, volume, years of history and lab demand, and approved by the seller
- Size requirement
- No minimum headcount
- Exclusivity
- Not published
- Fee to seller
- Nothing upfront. Commission when a sale closes (rate not published)
- Payment timing
- Target of 7 days after a sale closes
How we ranked this list
Sell My Data To AI wrote this list and ranks itself first. We are a broker with a commercial interest in the result, and some companies below offer a service similar to ours. Read the order with that in mind.
For call centers we gave extra weight to buyers that name call recordings, support tickets or speech data in their published brief, and to those that publish a range for the sector.
| Criterion | What we checked |
|---|---|
| Fit for the data type | Whether the company names this kind of record in its own published brief |
| Published terms | Whether payouts, size requirements and license terms appear on the company's own pages |
| Vetting | What checks the company says it runs on sellers, buyers or datasets before a sample changes hands |
| Exclusivity | Whether licenses are exclusive, non-exclusive or perpetual, and whether that is published |
| Fees | Whether the seller pays a fee or commission, and whether the rate is published |
| Payment timing | When sellers are paid, as stated by the company |
| Transparency | How much of the above you can confirm before a first call |
Every fact about another company comes from our profile of it in the data buyers directory, checked on that company's own pages in November 2026. Where a term is missing we write "Not published" rather than guess. After first place, the order reflects fit for a company selling or licensing its data, not a quality score, and we do not rate any company negatively.
We rank Sell My Data To AI first because this is our list and our service is built for this reader, not because we scored ourselves against the others. We are independent of the buyers we work with, and our terms are on our fees and how we vet pages so you can compare them line by line.
Frequently asked questions
Can a BPO sell recordings of calls it handled for clients?
Are call transcripts easier to sell than audio?
What if card numbers were read out on recorded calls?
Sources
- How to sell your company's data to AI companies, ddiy.co (figures taken from each buyer's own site), accessed November 2026
- UK GDPR, Article 28: processor, legislation.gov.uk, accessed November 2026
- Are audio/voice recordings permitted to contain sensitive authentication data? (FAQ 1210), PCI Security Standards Council, accessed November 2026
- Biometric Information Privacy Act (740 ILCS 14), Illinois General Assembly, accessed November 2026
- Data monetization, Mercor, accessed November 2026
- Polyshares homepage, Polyshares, accessed November 2026
- Track record, Polyshares, accessed November 2026
- Data licensing terms, Polyshares, accessed November 2026
- Answers, Polyshares, accessed November 2026
- Prism, Labelbox, accessed November 2026
- Defined.ai homepage, Defined.ai, accessed November 2026
- AI marketplace partnerships, Defined.ai, accessed November 2026
- Protege homepage, Protege, accessed November 2026
- Data providers, Protege, accessed November 2026
- Data partnerships, micro1, accessed November 2026
- SellMyData homepage and FAQ, SellMyData, accessed November 2026