What Makes Company Data Valuable? The Five Factors Buyers Price
Buyers price five factors: the size of the team behind the records, years of connected history, how many systems are included, how scarce the industry's expertise is in public data, and whether the license is exclusive. Everything else — including raw file volume on its own — is secondary.
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.
Factor 1: Team size
Bigger teams produce more connected history — more decisions, more handoffs, more outcomes. Published indicative patterns step up by staff band: roughly $200K–$500K at 20–49 staff, $400K–$900K at 50–149, $800K and up at 150+ (market guides, checked November 2026; indicative, not offers).
This is also why buyers publish staff floors at all: below about 20 people, an archive rarely contains enough connected work to train on. The floor is a data statement before it is a commercial one.
Factor 2: Years of connected history
Three years of records is the usual starting point and five or more is better — provided the years connect. A thread that starts in email, moves to chat and closes in the CRM is one training asset; three disconnected exports are three weaker ones.
Buyers describe the same preference from the other side: chat, CRM and email depth is what makes the rest of an archive worth more. If a company will not include those systems, the remaining records are worth materially less.
Factor 3: Systems included
Each additional system — support, accounting, project files, code — adds a view of the same work. Manifests covering five or more systems are the published entry point; nine or more price at the top of a band in the estimator's published logic.
Factor 4: industry scarcity is priced in the industry schedule. Factor 5: exclusivity — an exclusive license removes the archive from the market for the term, and published guidance prices it at a multiple of non-exclusive. It is shown as a separate line in every estimate on this site, never folded into the headline range, because it is a decision — not a default.
Estimate your range
The estimator maps your staff band, years of records, number of connected systems and industry onto the ranges buyers publish. It is part of the fit check above: pass the floor and your illustrative range appears with the factors that moved it, what would move you up a band, and the disclaimer below — before any booking is offered.
This is an illustrative estimate based on ranges buyers publish. It is not an offer, quote, or valuation of your company. Actual value — if any — is set by buyer bids on a metadata-only manifest of your records, after rights and de-identification checks. Many companies will not qualify or will receive offers below published ceilings. Nothing is owed by either side until a license is signed.
Start the fit check to see your rangeQuestions 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.
What does it cost me?
$0 upfront. There is no retainer and no listing fee. We are paid a success fee only if a deal closes — the terms are stated in writing before any submission is made.