Videos
Plain-English explainers on selling and buying AI training data, presented by Gareth Hoyle. Every figure is sourced on screen, and each video has a full guide behind it.
About these videos
There are 9 videos, each 6 to 8 minutes long, covering what company data is worth, what US law says, Slack and email archives, closing companies, buyer terms, lawsuits and risk. Each one embeds on its matching guide with chapters and a full transcript. They use an AI avatar of Gareth Hoyle created with HeyGen, from scripts written and checked by Sell My Data To AI.
How to Sell Company Data to AI Companies (9 Steps)
8 minutes
AI companies and the training-data firms that supply them are paying operating businesses for their internal records. In this video, Gareth Hoyle, founder of Sell My Data To AI, walks through how to license your company's data to AI buyers, from the first inventory to the signed license and payment.
What Is Your Company Data Worth to AI? Offers vs Sales
8 minutes
What AI companies say they will pay for company data and what companies actually receive are two very different numbers. AIData.Broker, as quoted by Don't Do It Yourself, puts the median published offer at $280,000 and the median public sale at $31,600.
Is It Legal to Sell Company Data for AI Training in the US?
8 minutes
Selling or licensing company data for AI training is legal in the US in principle, but there is no single law that allows it. In this video, Gareth Hoyle, founder of Sell My Data To AI, explains what US statutes and regulators say about licensing company records to AI buyers.
How to Sell Slack and Email Archives for AI Training
8 minutes
Slack, Microsoft Teams and email archives record how a company really works, and AI buyers now pay for them. Google's $10 million winning bid for Spirit Airlines' data covered about 100 million emails and 500 million Teams messages, according to MIT Technology Review.
Closing Your Startup? How to Sell Its Data to AI Buyers
8 minutes
Closed and closing startups are now a regular source of AI training data. MIT Technology Review reported that one winding-down crypto startup received about $25,000 for its codebase, and SimpleClosure says typical payments run $10,000 to $100,000 per company, as reported by Fortune.
Mercor vs micro1 vs Handshake AI: Payouts and Terms Compared
7 minutes
micro1, Mercor and Handshake AI all license operational records from companies and supply them to AI labs, but they publish very different terms. In this video, Gareth Hoyle, founder of Sell My Data To AI, sets out what each company publishes on its own pages, checked in November 2026.
AI Training Data Lawsuits Explained: What Courts Decided
7 minutes
Sell My Data To AI tracks the significant lawsuits and rulings over using data to train AI models. As of November 2026 the tracker covers 37 cases, 26 of them in US courts, and the largest disclosed settlement is $1.5 billion in Bartz v. Anthropic.
Is Selling Company Data to AI Safe? 6 Real Risks
8 minutes
Selling company data to AI buyers can be done safely, but it is never risk-free, and once a model is trained the data cannot practically be pulled back out. In this video, Gareth Hoyle, founder of Sell My Data To AI, sets out the six real risks and the safeguards that reduce them.
How AI Labs Buy Training Data (and What They Pay)
6 minutes
The biggest AI labs license data mainly through direct deals with large publishers and platforms, and most of those deals are announced without a price. Of the 25 deals in the Sell My Data To AI deals tracker, 14 have no disclosed value. The largest reported is OpenAI's agreement with News Corp, about $250 million over five years, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.
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