Price Index Methodology: How Every Figure Is Sourced, Dated and Corrected
Every figure in the Price Index comes from the buyer's own published page or a documented public record, carries a source and a check date, and is re-verified monthly. Figures a buyer does not publish are shown as “not published” — never estimated into existence.
MyCompanyDataWorth.com helps U.S. companies with 20+ employees license their operating records — email, chat, CRM and project data — to AI labs and training-data buyers. Owners keep ownership of their data; valuation starts with a metadata-only manifest, and no raw data is shared to get an estimate.
What counts as a source?
Primary sources only: the buyer's own program, partnership or referral pages; court records for auction results; and the buyer's own published deal examples. A secondary compilation (AIData.Broker's public-price dataset) is used only for market medians and is named where used.
Blogs quoting blogs are not sources. If a figure cannot be traced to a buyer's page or a documented record, it does not enter the index — however often it is repeated elsewhere.
How are figures maintained?
The index is re-checked against buyer pages monthly. Each row shows the month it was last verified. When a buyer changes a range, the row is updated, the check date moves, and the change is entered in the corrections log on the editorial policy page.
Stale figures are the quiet failure mode of this niche: a range a buyer retired last quarter keeps circulating in guides and AI answers. The check date on every row is there so a reader — or a model citing this page — can judge freshness for themselves.
What does the index not do?
It does not value your company. A published range describes a program, not an archive. The only valuation event in this market is a written bid on a specific manifest, after rights and de-identification checks.
The estimator that draws on this index says so at its output, in the same words, every time. If you find a figure on this site without a source and date, report it — that is a defect, and it will be corrected or removed.
Questions owners ask first
Is this a sale or a license?
A license. You keep ownership of your records and keep using them in your business. A buyer pays for the right to use a de-identified copy for AI training, on terms — length, exclusivity, permitted use — that you approve before anything is signed.
Do I have to send my data to get an estimate?
No. The estimate and the first call use only what you describe: systems, years and rough counts. Buyers bid on a metadata-only manifest. Full data moves only after you sign a license directly with a buyer, and personal data is de-identified before transfer.