Company Data Brokerage: Buyers, Prices and Terms

Method and definitions

Company announcements and terms pages, court filings and reporting, each linked; live roles from the labs' and vendors' public job boards. The live figures are computed every day from this site's own data, the same way for every reader; every sourced row links the publication it is taken from, with the figure as that publication states it. Each figure states its sample beneath it.

Company data

A company's operating records (email, chat, tickets, code, CRM, documents), licensed or sold, usually de-identified, to build RL environments and training sets.

Stated, reported, self-reported

Stated: a party's own announcement or a filing. Reported: press. Self-reported: a broker or founder describing its own business.

What this data cannot tell you

• Each report sets its sourced records beside a live figure computed from this site's own data every day; the sourced records are added as they are published and reviewed.
• Compiled from public sources: an event that was never announced or reported is missing, and private companies' figures are what they or the press stated, not audited.
• Most deals are private: the published prices are the ones parties chose to announce or courts made public.

How the job feeds are read and roles are classified: site methodology. How fresh, complete and consistent the data is, checked every day: data quality and coverage.

Editions

The live report is the dataset as last reviewed, beside figures recomputed every day from this site's own data; new events are added as they are published. Each complete month is also published as an edition, frozen two days after the month ends, so a figure you cite from an edition never moves.

• Live dataSources as last reviewed, live figures daily
• October 2026 edition (this page)Freezes on first reading

Cite and reuse

Free to quote, chart and republish under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page. This edition is frozen, so its figures will read the same later.

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  author = {{AITraining.jobs}},
  title = {Company Data Brokerage: Buyers, Prices and Terms, October 2026 edition},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://aitraining.jobs/research/company-data-brokerage/2026-10}},
}

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