Best ways to sell design and web agency data to AI companies
By Gareth HoyleLast updated How we research
In short
The best ways to sell design and web agency data to AI companies are a vetted broker such as Sell My Data To AI, a license with Mercor, a fixed-price deal with Polyshares, or a sale of workspace and Figma data through SimpleClosure AssetHub. ddiy.co reported Mercor's listing at $20,000 to $890,000 for design and web agencies of 10 to 200 staff.
Key takeaways
- Mercor is best for agencies of 10 to 200 staff on cloud tools.
- Polyshares is best for agencies that want one fixed payment and no fees.
- SimpleClosure AssetHub is best for agencies selling Figma and workspace archives.
- 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.
Design and web agencies hold the revision chain buyers cannot get from finished public websites: briefs linked to concepts, layered design files with version history, client feedback rounds and front-end codebases. Our design and web agency page lists the records buyers ask for.
ddiy.co reported Mercor's referral listing at $20,000 to $890,000 for design and web agencies of 10 to 200 employees. Polyshares lists design files among the operational data it buys, and SimpleClosure AssetHub sells workspace data from tools including Figma and Notion.
The rights work is heavy. Client contracts often assign copyright in delivered work, Getty Images' content license agreement lists machine learning use as restricted, and freelancers own their work unless they assigned it in writing. Our guide to building a data manifest shows how to record what is in and out.
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Sell My Data To AI
Best for agencies that need client, stock and freelancer rights cleared first
Sell My Data To AI values agency design and code archives and brokers licenses with vetted AI buyers. Our eight-point seller vetting checks client contract restrictions and identifies stock images, fonts and other third-party content to clear or remove. 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 agencies of 10 to 200 staff on cloud tools
Mercor pays businesses to license workflow data from more than 100 supported tools, including Slack, Gmail, GitHub and Notion, and names professional services among its target industries. ddiy.co reported Mercor's referral page listing $20,000 to $1.5 million by industry in October 2026. Mercor covers extraction, anonymization and transfer costs and typically pays 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 agencies that want one fixed payment and no fees
Polyshares is a direct buyer that licenses a company's operational record, naming design files, Slack, email, Drive and CRM history, and supplies AI labs itself. Its track record page publishes a $110,000 perpetual exclusive license with a global marketing agency. It sets no headcount minimum, charges no fee or commission and pays net 30 to 60 days after data is approved.
- 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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SimpleClosure AssetHub
Best for agencies selling Figma and workspace archives
AssetHub is SimpleClosure's service for selling or licensing startup assets, mainly source code and workspace data from Slack, Google Drive, email, Notion and Figma, to AI labs and RL environment builders. Operating companies and companies winding down can both use it. SimpleClosure says it has facilitated deals in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars and takes a percentage only on a successful sale or license.
- Published payout
- Deals in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for unique assets
- Size requirement
- None published. Operating companies and companies winding down can both sell
- Exclusivity
- Not published
- Fee to seller
- No upfront cost. A percentage on a successful sale or license (rate not published)
- Payment timing
- Not published. Initial viability assessment within days or hours
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DataVendor
Best for agencies with front-end codebases and component libraries
DataVendor is a marketplace on the HUD platform where vendors sell codebases, tasksets with their RL environments, corpora and raw data to AI companies. Sign-up is self-serve with no application review, vendors set their own prices and can import private repositories from GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket, and DataVendor keeps 20% of earnings on withdrawal. Buyer access is invite-only and all sales are final.
- Published payout
- Vendor sets the price. Example homepage listings include a $220,000 payments monorepo
- Size requirement
- None. Self-serve sign-up with no application review
- Exclusivity
- Not published
- Fee to seller
- 20% of vendor earnings, charged on withdrawal. A $15 dispute fee passes to the vendor if a dispute is lost
- Payment timing
- Not published
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SellMyData
Best for small agencies that want to approve every buyer
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
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Troveo
Best for agencies that want income from repeated sales
Troveo is a licensing agent that licenses company data from chat, email, documents, CRM, finance and code platforms to AI buyers on your behalf, sharing revenue on every sale. Its business data page reports more than $20 million paid to licensors and more than 40 active buyers, says full-company deals start at six figures, charges no fees and asks for time-limited exclusivity.
- Published payout
- Typical full-company deals start at six figures. More than $20 million paid to licensors to date (Troveo figure)
- Size requirement
- Not published. Its estimator uses headcount (20 to 1,000 or more) and years trading (under 3 to 15 or more)
- Exclusivity
- Time-limited and has to be earned, with exit terms in the agreement
- Fee to seller
- None. No fees, setup costs or deductions from payouts
- Payment timing
- Revenue share on every sale. Timing set in the agreement, not published
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Endless Data
Best for agencies of 30 or more staff wanting a non-exclusive deal
Endless Data, the trading name of Seldon Ventures, L.L.C., licenses quotes, tickets, work orders, SOPs and internal communications and places them with several AI labs, naming micro1, Mercor and Handshake. It advertises up to $4 million as an indicative estimate, asks for roughly 30 or more staff, uses a non-exclusive license and charges the seller nothing because the labs pay it.
- Published payout
- Up to $4 million (indicative estimate based on headcount, years of history and location)
- Size requirement
- Roughly 30 or more employees, several years of history, English documentation. US, UK and Canada prioritized
- Exclusivity
- Non-exclusive
- Fee to seller
- None. Endless is paid by the labs
- Payment timing
- Fixed sum agreed before data is shared, paid after signing, preparation and transfer. No date published
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 design and web agencies we gave extra weight to buyers that name design files, Figma or front-end code in their published brief, and to routes that suit smaller agencies.
| 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 design agency sell work it has already handed to clients?
Do stock images in our design files stop a sale?
Is a small agency's archive worth selling to AI companies?
Sources
- How to sell your company's data to AI companies, ddiy.co (figures taken from each buyer's own site), accessed November 2026
- Getty Images content license agreement, Getty Images, accessed November 2026
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 11, legislation.gov.uk, 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
- AssetHub, SimpleClosure, accessed November 2026
- DataVendor homepage, DataVendor, accessed November 2026
- DataVendor documentation, DataVendor, accessed November 2026
- FAQ, DataVendor, accessed November 2026
- Become a vendor, DataVendor, accessed November 2026
- SellMyData homepage and FAQ, SellMyData, accessed November 2026
- Business data, Troveo, accessed November 2026
- Endless Data homepage and FAQ, Endless Data, accessed November 2026