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What is happening with business data and AI.
Articles for owners, partners and buyers. What is being licensed, what people ask, and what to check before any records change hands. Every figure names its source.
Which clients have data worth licensing? What buyers’ own pages say
Look for years of real work in everyday tools, specialist knowledge, records the business created itself, and one owner who can decide. Buyers say so on their own pages.
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How to judge a business data sample before you make an offer
Ask for a sample and a short datasheet. Check what one record holds, how the sample was chosen, what was removed and what is missing, then test it against your own task.
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How far back do a client’s records go? Slack, Google and Microsoft 365
It depends on the plan and the retention rules. Paid Slack and Google Workspace keep data until someone deletes it, free Slack keeps a year at most, and a leaver’s Microsoft mailbox can be gone in 30 days.
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What should an AI training data licence cover? A buyer’s clause list
An AI training data licence should settle the uses, exclusivity, the term, the seller’s right to license, personal data, ownership of what you build, and what happens at the end.
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Referral fees for advisors: what you must tell your client
Tell the client that you are paid, who pays you and how the amount is worked out, before you recommend anything. Some licences bar the fee, so check your own rules first.
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De-identified is not anonymous: what data buyers need to know
De-identified data has had direct identifiers removed. Anonymous data cannot be tied back to a person at all. Most business data you can license is the first kind.
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Can an accountant introduce a client to a data buyer?
Yes, if the client agrees first. The confidentiality rule covers a client’s name and anything from the file, so talk in general terms and let the client take every step that touches data.
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Buying data from a bankrupt company: what the Spirit Airlines sale shows
A bankruptcy sale can move a company’s internal records to an AI buyer, but the conditions matter more than the price. The Spirit Airlines case shows which ones.
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Is a company’s data an asset in a business sale?
Yes, but it rarely shows in the accounts. An advisor who lists the records, checks the rights and discloses any licence turns it into something an acquirer can price.
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How do you check a seller’s right to license business data?
Check who created the records, what the business promised the people in them, and whether the seller can show both in writing. Do it before you talk about price.
Read the articleIf I sell my company's data for AI, who actually ends up with it?
Whoever the licence says. A copy can travel further than you expect, so the contract should name who gets it, ban resale without your written consent, and say what is removed first.
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