Explore a potential new revenue source
A suitable buyer may pay for defined rights to use your operational records. Whether an opportunity exists, and what it could pay, depends on the records, permitted uses, and negotiated terms.
Operational Data Partnerships
Could your company’s operational records support a data-licensing opportunity?
Authority in AI helps companies assess whether their existing operational records may be suitable for a responsible, authorized data-licensing opportunity. Useful records are often documented workflows and outcomes, not just large volumes of files.
Fit depends on record quality, rights, restrictions, privacy, and a real buyer need. We help you find out, before anything is shared.
No raw files or system credentials are needed for an introductory conversation. Buyer interest, eligibility, and compensation are determined case by case and never guaranteed.
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Business records
Described at a high level. Nothing uploaded.
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Scoped review
Inventory, restrictions, and sensitive fields mapped.
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Rights & buyer fit
What can be licensed, and to whom.
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Approved opportunity
Only with written scope and authorization.
Explainer Video
How your records could become a licensing opportunity
A walkthrough of how operational records are assessed, how rights and restrictions are confirmed, and what is prepared before a buyer conversation. Nothing about your company is needed to watch.
No upload, sign-in, or system access is needed to watch.
Governance safeguards
Your company stays in control at every step.
Whether an opportunity exists, and what it could pay, depends on the records, permitted uses, and negotiated terms. We do not publish payout ranges without documented comparable transactions or a written buyer indication.
Start a Free Data Assessment
A preliminary screening, not an appraisal or offer. No files, credentials, or system access needed.
No raw files or credentials to start
The introductory conversation uses high-level descriptions only.
Authorization before buyer outreach
No buyer is contacted about your records without your company’s written authorization.
Rights and privacy reviewed first
Rights, privacy, sensitive fields, and third-party restrictions are reviewed before any transfer.
You approve the final agreement
The company approves the final scope and agreement, and can decline at any stage before transfer.
The commercial opportunity
What could a data license pay your company?
A buyer may pay for agreed rights to use a defined set of records. The amount comes from the specific opportunity, not a fixed price per employee, file, or year of history.
Records a buyer can use
Useful workflows, documented outcomes, consistent fields, and hard-to-recreate history can help establish fit with a real buyer need.
Rights you agree to license
Permitted use, license duration, exclusivity, and any ongoing updates affect the scope and compensation negotiated in writing.
What you could take home
Gross license consideration is not net earnings. Extraction, preparation, legal review, and any advisory fees must be considered separately.
We show a dollar range only with at least three documented comparable buyer quotes or deals, or a written buyer indication, and resolved rights and privacy questions. No buyer, license, or payment is guaranteed.
Start a Free Data AssessmentIllustrative example
What an assessment can look like
This is a hypothetical, anonymized example of the process. It is not a completed transaction, does not describe a real buyer, and is not evidence of earnings.
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High-level inventory
A regional field-service company describes its systems: about eight years of work orders, technician notes, and repair outcomes. No files are shared.
- Step 2
Quality and fit
We discuss how consistently fields were captured, which workflows the records show, and which AI uses they might reasonably support.
- Step 3
Rights review
Customer contracts, employee information, and vendor platform terms are flagged. Some fields are excluded; others would need de-identification.
- Step 4
Company decision
The company decides whether to authorize buyer outreach for a defined scope, or to stop. Nothing moves forward without its written approval.
Who we are
Who leads Authority in AI
Nailah Malak
CEO, Certified AI Consultant
Our role in the process
Authority in AI is an early-stage advisory company. Our role is to assess operational records, map rights and restrictions, and help structure a potential licensing opportunity that the company authorizes. We do not take ownership of your records, and we name buyers, intermediaries, or partners only when a relationship is current, documented, and approved for public disclosure.
Why companies explore this
Explore the revenue potential in records you already have.
Understand fit before investing time
Start with a high-level inventory of record types, systems, time span, completeness, and possible use cases. Not every dataset will qualify.
Surface rights and restrictions early
Identify who controls the records and whether customer, employee, vendor, platform, privacy, or contractual limits apply before discussing any transfer.
Keep decisions with the company
The company decides whether to proceed, what records may be considered, which uses are acceptable, and whether to approve any proposed terms.
Support responsible AI development and evaluation
Well-documented operational records may help AI teams train or evaluate systems against real workflows. Data alone does not ensure accurate, safe, or efficient AI.
Illustrative examples
What operational data may look like
Examples are illustrative and subject to review. Eligibility is always assessed case by case.
Logistics & supply chain
Shipment events, routing workflows, exception resolution, inventory processes
Field service & trades
Work orders, technician workflows, diagnostics, repair outcomes
Manufacturing
Quality records, maintenance workflows, production events, process documentation
Finance & accounting
Reconciliation workflows, approvals, reporting procedures
Software & IT
Incident histories, tickets, runbooks, QA processes
Retail & customer operations
Support workflows, returns, service procedures
Energy & facilities
Maintenance events, operating procedures, equipment records
Healthcare operations
Administrative and workflow records only, where the organization has authority and applicable privacy requirements are met
Personal, patient, employee, payment, privileged, confidential customer, or third-party information is not automatically eligible. Sensitive fields and restrictions must be flagged and reviewed before any data is shared.
How we work
A five-step, company-approved process
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Start with a conversation
Discuss the company, its operations, systems, record types, time span, and goals. We do not request raw files or credentials.
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Map the opportunity
Build a high-level inventory and identify ownership, access rights, restrictions, sensitive fields, and possible use cases.
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Confirm rights and buyer fit
Assess what the company may be permitted to license and whether a relevant buyer need exists. Any buyer outreach requires the company’s written authorization.
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Scope and negotiate
Define the proposed records, permitted uses, compensation structure, exclusivity, security, retention, and other terms.
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Company reviews and approves
The company reviews and approves the final scope and agreement before any authorized transfer.
Buyer interest, competing bids, eligibility, valuation, and payment are not assumed or guaranteed.
Where multiple qualified buyers are confirmed for a specific opportunity, a competitive process may be discussed. Competing bids are not assumed or promised by default.
Owner control & governance
Your records. Your decision.
Licensing source records is not an automatic transfer of ownership. Final rights, permitted uses, and terms are set by written agreement.
Process & Governance- The company approves what may be included.
- No data is shared before scope and authorization are documented.
- Source-record ownership and license rights are addressed in writing.
- Sensitive fields and third-party restrictions are reviewed.
- The company can decline before any authorized transfer.
- Security and handling controls are defined for each engagement.
Start by describing the work, not by sending files.
Tell us about your company, the systems that hold its operational history, and the workflows those records capture. We’ll discuss whether a further assessment makes sense.
For AI buyers
Looking for operational data tied to real workflows?
Tell us about the industry, task, format, coverage, and rights requirements you need. We’ll review whether a suitable, authorized opportunity may exist.
Questions companies ask
What kinds of companies are eligible for the program?
For our Enterprise Data Partnership, we're looking for operationally mature companies with 30+ employees, established documentation, and high-quality operational data such as SOPs, knowledge bases, CRM data, project histories, and internal processes. We currently prioritize US companies, followed by other Western markets.
What kinds of operational records might be considered?
Records that document how work is done: work orders, tickets, shipment events, maintenance logs, approvals, procedures, and similar workflow histories. Whether a given set is suitable depends on rights, quality, and buyer need.
Does every company’s data have commercial value?
No. Suitability depends on buyer need, data quality, coverage, rights, and other factors. Many datasets will not be a fit, and an initial conversation is the way to find out.
Do I need to upload files to request an assessment?
No. Begin with high-level information only: industry, systems, approximate years of records, and general categories.
Does a license mean the buyer owns our original records?
Not necessarily. Our preferred model licenses defined rights rather than transferring ownership. Ownership and licensed rights are defined in the written agreement.
Can we restrict how a buyer uses the data?
Proposed scope and restrictions are negotiated and documented in the agreement. Not every restriction will be accepted by every buyer, and you can decline terms that don’t work for you.
How much could my company earn from its data?
There is no standard price or guaranteed payout. A potential license amount depends on usable records, quality, workflow context, permitted rights, and a buyer’s specific need. Our free assessment screens the opportunity; a dollar range is shown only when supported by at least three documented comparable buyer quotes or deals, or a written buyer indication, and rights and privacy questions are resolved. Preparation and advisory costs reduce net proceeds.
What if our records contain personal or confidential information?
Flag this during the initial assessment. Do not upload or disclose those records until rights and handling requirements have been reviewed.
Can we stop before sharing data?
Yes. No records are shared without the required authorization and a signed agreement. You can stop at any stage before that point.