QualifyDataQualifyDataYes — AI companies pay e-commerce operators to license their operational records for AI training. What they are buying is the record of how a real online business ran: years of support tickets, returns workflows, supplier correspondence and team chat. Customer names and details are removed before any AI developer sees a line of it.
An e-commerce operation writes everything down, because it has to. Every customer question landed in a help desk, and every return followed a workflow. Every supplier problem was argued out over email. That trail is what AI developers need. They license a cleaned copy of those records. You keep your originals, and your store keeps running as it does today.
QualifyData is a broker. There is no need to submit to one buyer direct and take the one number they offer. We put your archive in front of 15 AI companies, let them bid, and submit the best offer to you, in writing. You go through the process one time.
Five minutes. See if your archive qualifies.No cost. No commitment. No logins, no records handed over — just a few questions about your archive's size.
The records that show how the operation ran — and an e-commerce company holds years of them:
More sources and more years make a stronger archive. You pick which systems and which years go — nothing leaves until you sign a license that lists exactly what goes.
Years of records across the systems an operation lives in — help desk, returns, fulfillment, email, chat. A real team working in them daily. Records your company controls and can export. A store that shut down is measured at its peak.
One or two systems with a short history. Records scattered across personal accounts the company cannot get to. A history under three years. The check sorts this out in five minutes, at no cost.
Support tickets and order records carry customer details, so the cleaning step matters here. Personal details come out before any developer sees the data:
This page explains the process; it is not legal advice. Which systems belong in a license is a decision for your own counsel, who can review every document before you sign anything.
Five minutes. See if your archive qualifies.The bar for most businesses is 20 or more people working at desks, 3 or more years of records, and several business systems, in the US, Canada, the UK or Australia. At an e-commerce company, desk staff means the people whose work runs through the systems all day — support, operations, marketing and administration staff. Warehouse and packing work is physical, and generally does not count toward that number.
A solo seller, or a store run by two or three people, is not a fit for this program, however good the sales were — the archive is too small. The fit is the established operator: a team that has spent years answering tickets, processing returns and coordinating in chat. Five or more systems is a strong archive. The AI companies make the final call on fit, starting with the five-minute check.
It can still qualify — a closed company is measured as it was at its peak, in its final stretch of real operation: the team it had, the years of records it built, the systems it ran on. There is a clock on this. Help desks, chat workspaces and store platforms live in accounts somebody keeps paying for, and when the accounts lapse, the history usually goes with them. Licensing the archive while it still exists is what preserves the value.
Who can sign depends on who holds the rights to the records — the owner, the company entity, or an estate or trustee. Your attorney confirms that before anything moves. Our closed-companies page covers the rest of the picture.
Five minutes. See if your archive qualifies.Mostly, the small and the thin. An e-commerce company is usually not a fit if it ran with fewer than about 20 people working at desks, fewer than 3 years of records, an archive in one or two systems with little history, or records the company cannot access or no longer has the right to license. If that is your company, the five-minute check will tell you quickly, at no cost.
You never hand over a login, and you see every number in writing before you commit to anything.
We walk through your systems and answer your questions. No data, no logins, no commitment.
A client services agreement lets us represent you. It doesn't commit you to a deal, and your attorney is welcome on a call first.
60 to 90 minutes, system by system: how far back, how much. Counts and sizes only — no records, and nobody gets a login.
That list — no actual records in it — goes out through our broker network to 15 AI companies. They bid, and we submit the best one to you, in writing.
You sign directly with the AI company behind that offer, your attorney reviewing first. The license lists exactly which systems are in — and everything else stays out.
Your team exports copies, with help at every step — typically 5 to 10 business days. Then a buyer review of about 30 days.
The AI company pays you the license fee directly.
From signing to money in the bank is typically 90 to 120 days. Timelines are typical, not promised — and no offer is guaranteed.
Published deals, and buyer ranges shown at the sizes we qualify — examples of what archives have sold for, not a promise of what yours is worth. Your number only exists as a written offer after the intake call.
Yes. AI companies train their systems on how real businesses operate, and an e-commerce operation's records — support tickets, returns workflows, supplier correspondence, team chat and process documents — are exactly that kind of history. You license a cleaned copy for a set term; your originals stay yours and your store keeps running as it does today.
Identifiers are removed before any AI developer sees the data: names, emails, phone numbers and addresses are replaced — a person becomes "Person 01" — dates are generalized, and card numbers, bank numbers and anything about minors are left out entirely. Only the buyer's cleaning process ever sees the raw copy; developers get the cleaned version only. You can ask to see a cleaned sample first.
It depends on three things: how many desk staff worked in the systems, how many years of records you hold, and how many sources the work ran through — support, returns, fulfillment, email, chat and documents add up quickly at an established operation. Case studies from AI labs run from $150K to $550K, and higher for large archives. Your number only exists as a written offer after the intake call — the estimator gives you the rough range first.
Nothing, at any step. Your business never pays anything.
Probably not, and we would rather say so here than on a call. The program fits operations with about 20 or more people working at desks — support, operations, marketing, administration — and 3 or more years of records. A solo seller or a store run by a handful of people does not have the archive size buyers are paying for, whatever the sales were. The five-minute check gives you a definite answer at no cost.
Often, yes. A closed company is sized at its peak — the team it had and the years of records it built. The catch is timing: help desks, chat workspaces and store platforms live in accounts that lapse, and the history usually goes with them, so it pays to move while the archive still exists. Who can sign depends on who holds the rights to the records; your attorney confirms that before anything moves.
We never touch or access your data. Not during the intake, not during the export, not ever. Your records go straight from your systems to the AI company you sign with — we are never in that chain. Your business never pays anything.