Which industries have the most valuable data for AI companies?

AI companies have already trained their models on most of what is public. What they are short of is the record of how real work gets done inside companies – the emails, files, chats, CRM notes and accounts of a team doing its job over years. That record exists in every company, but some industries are worth much more than others right now.

The reason is simple: AI companies are building agents for specific kinds of work, and they need training data from the industries where that work happens. Legal drafting, lending, construction management and tax preparation are all areas where agents are being built and where little of the real work is public. Demand also shifts with the market. An industry in strong demand today can move up or down as AI companies change what they are building, so treat this guide as a picture of what we see right now.

Industries in demand right now

Typical starting size means office or desk staff – the people whose work lives in email, files, chat, CRM and accounting. Bigger teams get bigger offers in every industry.

Industries that aren't listed can still fit. Read does my company data qualify for the full set of things that are checked.

What companies typically receive right now

Smaller companies in high-demand industries are quoted individually. These are indicative ranges from what we see in the market right now, not offers – the real number comes in a written offer after a review, and depends on your industry, years of history, which systems are included and demand at the time.

As a rule of thumb, the highest-demand industries tend to land toward the top of a band and faster-deal industries toward the lower end. Our data value estimator gives a first estimate in about two minutes.

What raises an offer in any industry

Industry sets the starting point. Within an industry, the same handful of things move an offer up or down:

• Team size. Bigger teams get bigger offers, and teams of 100 or more office staff get the largest.
• Connected systems. Email, file storage, internal chat, CRM and accounting used by the same team. Each system adds context to the others – a decision in chat, the email that followed and the invoice that closed it.
• Years of records. Three years still in those systems is the usual floor; five or more is better.
• Clean ownership. The company owns its records – not a franchisor, a parent company or a software vendor.
• The full record. Sensitive content such as HR files, privileged material, health information and account numbers is filtered inside each system. Leaving whole systems out lowers the offer.
• A decision maker. Someone who can sign within about two weeks of the first call keeps the deal moving.

A few things lower the value in every industry: very small teams, less than three years of history, a core system missing, internal communication that is mostly not in English, and data the company doesn't own or lacks the rights to share. Companies in sanctioned or trade-restricted countries can't take part. Healthcare and EHR records are reviewed case by case.

Every deal is unique and assessed on its own. For how a deal runs from first form to payment, see how it works, and for what drives price in more detail, how much company data is worth.