QualifyDataQualifyDataYes — AI companies pay freight brokerages and 3PLs to license their office records for AI training. The core of it is the load history in your TMS — years of loads, lanes, emails and decisions. Identifiers are removed before any AI developer sees a line of it.
A freight brokerage runs on records. Every load quoted, booked, covered and delivered left a trail in your systems — the trail AI developers need. They license a cleaned, de-identified copy of those records. You keep your originals, you keep using them, and nothing about your operation changes.
QualifyData is a broker — 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 freight got quoted, covered and moved, across the systems a brokerage office runs on:
More sources and more years make a stronger archive; five or more systems is a strong one. You pick which systems and which years go — nothing leaves until you sign a license that lists exactly what goes.
Years of load history in the TMS, worked by a steady desk team, with email, quoting and accounting records around it. Records your brokerage controls and can export. A closed or acquired brokerage counts the same way, measured at its peak.
A load history left behind in an old TMS. One system with a short history. Records you no longer control or cannot get to. A history under three years. The check sorts this out in five minutes, at no cost.
Rates, lanes and customer names are the business — so identifiers come out before any AI developer sees the data, and you decide what goes in the first place:
What a cleaned archive still shows is how freight work got done — the shape of quotes, coverage decisions and problem-solving — with the who and the when taken out. Your customer and carrier agreements, and your own counsel, have the final say. This page explains the process; it is not legal advice, and your attorney can review every document before you sign anything.
Five minutes. See if your archive qualifies.The general bar 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. Five or more systems is a strong archive.
"Desk staff" means the people whose work runs through the systems all day — brokers, carrier reps, dispatchers, billing and back office. Drivers are not desk staff: a large fleet with a small office is a small archive, and a mid-size brokerage office with no trucks at all can be a large one. The AI companies make the final call on fit, starting with the five-minute check.
It can still qualify — a closed brokerage is measured as it was at its peak, in its final stretch of real operation: the desk staff and load history it had, the systems it ran on. If your TMS history and office records sit in retained systems, in storage, or with a records custodian, they are an asset you may be paying to keep alive. A license can collect that value before accounts lapse or retention periods run out.
If the brokerage was acquired, the question is who holds the rights to the records now — the seller, the buyer, or an estate or trustee. Storage is not the same as ownership, and your attorney confirms who can sign before anything moves. Our closed-companies page covers the rest of the picture.
Five minutes. See if your archive qualifies.Mostly, the small, the thin, and the asset side. A brokerage is usually not a fit if it has fewer than about 20 people working at desks, fewer than 3 years of records, a load history deleted or left behind in an old system, or records in a single system with little history. An asset-based carrier with trucks but no brokerage office is not a fit either — there is no desk archive to license. Records you cannot access, or no longer have the right to license, cannot go. 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 — including the rate-and-lane privacy ones. 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 and years are in it.
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 a brokerage's records — years of loads and how they were quoted, covered and delivered, plus the communication around them — are exactly that kind of history. You license a cleaned, de-identified copy for a set term; your originals stay yours and your brokerage keeps running as it does today.
Identifiers are removed before any AI developer sees the data. Names become labels like "Person 01" and "Company 01," dates are generalized to the year, and card and bank numbers are left out entirely. Only the buyer's cleaning process sees the raw copy, and it is deleted on the schedule in your license. You also pick which systems and years go — a record set you want kept out stays out, and you can ask to see a cleaned sample first.
No. The archive is the office's record of the work — load history, communication, quoting and paperwork created by your brokers, dispatchers and back office. Drivers are not desk staff, and their records are not what is licensed. A brokerage with a strong desk team and no trucks of its own can hold a large archive.
Yes — always. What gets licensed is a copy: you keep your originals, keep using them, and your daily operations don't change. You also pick which systems and which years go; the rest never leaves.
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. 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.
Often, yes. A closed brokerage is sized at its peak — the desk staff it had and the years of load history it built. If the brokerage was acquired, who can sign depends on who holds the rights to the records; your attorney confirms that before anything moves. Either way, the starting point is the same five-minute check.
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.