A tutoring company, a private school or a corporate training provider spends years writing things down: lesson plans, course outlines, quiz banks, facilitator guides, feedback on student work, and the email that goes back and forth with parents or HR managers about what is working. AI companies now license copies of records like these, and in our reading a model that explains, corrects and plans a course learns from seeing how good teachers do it, draft after draft.
Education sits in the middle of buyers' lists rather than at the top. Polyshares takes education and training without marking it premium, and Troveo's value tool puts it in its third of four tiers. Across buyers, published ranges mostly run $100K to $2M, as their own claims, so by our reading the depth of your teaching archive matters more than the label on it.
Student files are the part to sort out first. Lead with what your staff wrote in order to teach: curriculum maps, training decks, quizzes with worked answers, tutor guides and internal SOPs, and put anything tied to a named student, from grades to parent emails, on the list to talk through with the buyer. The quiz shows which buyers take a school or training company your size.
Worth
What a school's data may be worth
Set for a typical school, 40 staff and 10 years of records. Move the sliders to match yours. Our estimate, not an offer.
Buyers
Which buyers want this data
Buyers whose own published rules fit private schools, tutoring companies and training providers. We can introduce you to the ones we work with.
micro1
Asks for SOPs, playbooks, templates and knowledge bases, which is what a training provider's course library and facilitator guides amount to, from companies with 30+ employees.14,11
- $100K to $2M+, micro1 says7
Watch out for: Says it removes personal details only "when relevant", so ask exactly how.15
Polyshares
Lists education and training as an intake industry and says the length and texture of the record matter more than headcount, which suits a tutoring company with a long archive and a lean staff.1,12
- $100K to $2M+, Polyshares says8
- None, Polyshares says16
- An offer in 1 to 2 weeks, then paid in 30 to 60 days17
Watch out for: Exclusive by default, and every deal it lists is exclusive with no end date.18,19
Mode
Writes its page for a business or a nonprofit, so a nonprofit private school can apply, and asks for 20+ full-time US office staff.20,10
Watch out for: The program launched in October 2026 and has no deal record yet.24
Grepped
States no headcount minimum and reads Drive, Gmail, Slack and Notion only from sources you approve, so a student information system never has to be connected.25,26,27
Watch out for: Its own site code calls its estimator "deliberately optimistic", so treat any estimate as an indication.28,29
Ventra
Takes US companies with 30+ employees and 3+ years of records, and education is not among the industries it says it cannot take.30,31
- $100K to $2M as potential deals, Ventra says32
- None today, though it may add fees with notice33
- An offer in 3 to 7 days, then paid on net 30 or 6032
Watch out for: Its terms say delivered data may not be deletable.34
Who wants this
Do buyers want private schools, tutoring companies and training providers?
No buyer publishes prices by industry, but their own intake forms show which industries they rate higher.
- Troveo puts education or training in its third of four demand tiers: "Standard buyer demand for your industry."2
- Polyshares takes education and training, without marking it premium.35
Which buyers take a school your size
Shown for 40 staff, a typical school. Ask whether contractors and part-time staff count.
micro1
Polyshares
No headcount rule; the length and texture of the record matter more12
Mode
20+ full-time US office staff (accounting firms 10+, law firms 6+)10
Pewter
20+ staff and 3+ years; by industry, from 10+ (healthcare) to 50+ (manufacturing, finance)37,38,39
Grepped
No headcount minimum stated25
Ventra
30+ US employees and 3+ years of records30
Mercor
None stated40
Troveo
No minimum stated; its estimator starts at 2041
Nyne
20+ US W-2 employees and 3+ years42
Endless
Roughly 30+ employees43
Supersoniq
50+ employees and 5+ years44
What buyers value
What in a school's records buyers value
What buyers look for in your records, and what to talk through with your buyer before anything leaves your systems.
| Data | Where it lives | Why a buyer values it | Raise with the buyer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curriculum maps and lesson plans | Google Drive, Word, Canvas or Google Classroom | How a skill gets broken into steps and sequenced across a term, then revised year after year. | Textbook or purchased course content pasted into them. |
| Quiz banks, worked answers and marking guides | LMS, Google Forms, shared drive | Questions paired with correct answers and the reasoning behind partial credit, which is scarce outside a classroom. | Exam items licensed from a testing body. |
| Tutor session notes and written feedback | TutorCruncher, Teachworks, email | Explanations that changed when a student got stuck, and the feedback that followed. | Every student name and any note about a learning need. |
| Corporate training decks and facilitator guides | PowerPoint, Articulate, an LMS | How a workplace skill is taught to adults, with exercises and debrief questions built in. | Client company names and anything built from a client's internal material. |
| Parent, client and HR correspondence | Gmail or Outlook, HubSpot | Scheduling, progress updates and complaint handling, written by the staff who do it every day. | Minors' names, family details and payment information. |
| Instructor handbooks and onboarding SOPs | Notion, Google Docs | How the school or company trains its own tutors and instructors to teach its way. | Nothing specific |
A week of records
A week of data at a school
- Monday: three tutors log session notes against the week's lesson plan, and two flag the same student missing the same fractions step.
- Tuesday: the curriculum lead rewrites a unit quiz after half the cohort got question four wrong.
- Wednesday: a corporate client's HR manager emails a change to next month's leadership workshop, and the facilitator guide is edited to match.
- Thursday: end-of-term progress emails go out to parents, drafted from a template and edited by hand.
- Friday: a new instructor works through the onboarding checklist and shadows two sessions.
Process
How it works with each buyer
In each buyer's own words. Where a buyer publishes nothing, we say so.
micro1
- Internal docs, SOPs and playbooks, knowledge bases, project management workflows, internal comms, templates, CRM and workflow metadata, task histories14
- 30 to 200 employees36
- $100K-$2M+ per data package; over $1M for unique data7
- PII removed "when relevant"15
- The company keeps ownership of its data and reviews samples before release45
- Not published
Selling or closing
Selling or closing your school? License its data first
In our reading, tutoring chains get bought, training firms fold into larger providers, and small private schools merge or close. If a sale or closure is coming, raise the teaching material your staff wrote with the buyer you're working with before the deal, kept apart from student files, and ask how a license would be shown to the acquirer. Pewter takes firms that are winding down or already closed if the records still exist, and SimpleClosure has handled 150+ data deals for startups that shut down, which covers an edtech company at the end of its run.3,4
FAQ
Schools, tutoring and training providers: questions, answered
Some do. Polyshares lists education and training in its intake, and Troveo's value tool has a category for it. In our reading, what buyers want is written teaching work, such as course outlines, quizzes and training material, rather than anything about students, and micro1, for one, lists templates, SOPs and knowledge bases.1,2,14
In our reading, anything that pairs a question with a worked answer, or a draft with feedback, because it shows reasoning. Quiz banks with explanations, tutor notes and revised lesson plans fit that, and Troveo's agency guide says records showing outcomes, such as which version of a course did better, add value. Training specialists and instructional coordinators score 100 out of 100 on O*NET's email scale, so the written trail is usually long.49,50,51
Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.
Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.
Before you sign
Questions to talk through with your buyer
Every business is different, so these are best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over them with you before anything is signed.
Questions for this kind of business
- How are student records, grades and anything covered by FERPA kept out of the export, and who checks it?
- How are minors' names and messages from parents found and removed before a sample is shown?
- Does any course content come from a publisher or testing body whose license limits reuse?
- Do client training agreements say anything about material built for that client?
- How do CCPA, GDPR, UK GDPR and state privacy laws apply, and is de-identified data still personal information?
- Do customer, vendor or platform contracts, NDAs or API terms restrict this?
Questions for any buyer
- Is the license exclusive, and for how long?
- Can you sublicense the data, and to whom?
- Which AI labs will receive it, and will you tell us?
- How long do you keep it, and how is it deleted?
- What is your liability cap, and who indemnifies whom?
- Will the contract ban re-identification of people in the data?
- Who removes personal data, by what method, and do we approve it first?