Updated October 2026
Selling personal injury firm data for AI training: what it's worth and who buys it
Polyshares names CRM data and call recordings among the data it buys, and a plaintiff firm's intake desk produces both every day.1
A plaintiff firm runs more like a sales and operations business than most practices. Leads arrive from advertising and referrals, an intake team qualifies them by phone within minutes, a case manager chases police reports and medical bills, and an attorney writes the demand and negotiates with an adjuster. Every stage leaves a written trail: intake notes, call dispositions, treatment-tracking updates, demand letters, settlement emails.
That pipeline is the kind of multi-step record buyers say they want. micro1 lists CRM and workflow metadata and task histories. Polyshares names CRM data, tickets and call recordings. Mercor names legal and takes email, Teams and Slack.
It is also one of the most sensitive archives in law, because client medical records sit inside nearly every file. So a personal injury firm's best first offer is its machinery, the part least tied to any one client: intake scripts and qualification rules, lead-source tracking, case-stage SOPs, demand letter templates and the lien resolution checklist. Raise every record that carries a client's medical or claim details with the licensing company before anything is exported.
Worth
What a firm's data may be worth
Pre-set for a typical firm: 45 staff and 10 years of records. No buyer publishes pricing by industry, so industry does not move the band. Our estimate, not a buyer quote.
Buyers
Which buyers want this data
Each reason is the buyer's own published statement about the tools, data or industries it takes, matched to how personal injury firms work.
Featured partners
micro1
Names legal and compliance and lists CRM and workflow metadata and task histories, which is how a case-stage tracker reads.11,5
- $100K to $2M+, micro1 says8
Watch out for: Says it removes personal details only "when relevant", so ask exactly how.12
Polyshares
Names CRM data, tickets and call recordings, and has a third-party partner scrub PII before licensing, which matters for intake calls.1,13
- $100K to $2M+, Polyshares says9
- None, Polyshares says14
- An offer in 1 to 2 weeks, then paid in 30 to 60 days15
Watch out for: Exclusive by default, and every deal it lists is exclusive with no end date.16,17
Everyone else we reviewed
By score, with full reviews. We have no referral agreement with these companies, so we do not link out to them.
Buyer demand
How buyers' own tools rate personal injury firms
No buyer publishes a price list by industry. These are settings inside buyers' and brokers' own estimators and intake forms, read from their public pages on 2026-10-14. They show how each company sorts industries, not what any firm was paid. The category shown is the one a firm would most likely pick; that match is ours.
| Company | Its category | How it rates the industry |
|---|---|---|
| Troveo | Legal | Tier 2 of 4: "Your industry carries above-average buyer demand." Price factor 1.15 in its estimator.24 |
| Polyshares | Legal | Marked premium in its intake list25 |
| VMS | Law | Higher weight in its estimator (factor 1.30)26 |
| Ventra | Legal, healthcare, financial services or accounting | Says it cannot take these industries right now27 |
Size rules buyers publish
Checked against 45 staff, the typical firm size this page's calculator is set to. Ask each buyer whether contractors and part-time staff count.
Polyshares
No headcount rule; the length and texture of the record matter more28
Mercor
None stated29
Troveo
No minimum stated; its estimator starts at 2030
Nyne
20+ US W-2 employees and 3+ years31
Handshake AI
20+ full-time employees and 3+ years32
micro1
Pewter
20+ staff and 3+ years35
Endless
Roughly 30+ employees36
Ventra
30+ US employees and 3+ years of records37
Supersoniq
50+ employees and 5+ years38
What buyers value
What in a firm's records buyers value
The column on the right is not legal advice: it lists what to raise with the buyer before anything is exported.
| Data | Where it lives | Why a buyer values it | Raise with the buyer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intake scripts and qualification rules | Intake CRM (Lead Docket, Litify) or a script library | How the firm decides in one call whether a case is worth taking: the questions, the order, the red flags. | Nothing specific |
| Call dispositions and intake notes | Phone system and intake CRM | Thousands of qualify-or-decline decisions with the reason recorded. | Callers' names, injuries and accident details in every note and recording. |
| Case-stage SOPs and task templates | Filevine, Litify or CASEpeer | The firm's playbook from sign-up through treatment, demand, negotiation and disbursement. | Nothing specific |
| Demand letter templates and negotiation notes | Document assembly and email | How a demand is structured and how offers move with each counter. | Medical records, bills and adjuster correspondence about named clients. |
| Lead-source and marketing reports | CRM dashboards, call tracking | Which channels produce signed cases, with cost per case over years of campaigns. | Nothing specific |
| Lien resolution checklists | Shared drive or case management system | The steps for clearing provider and insurer liens before money is disbursed, a dense compliance workflow. | Provider names and amounts tied to individual clients. |
A week of records
A week of data at a firm
- Monday: 140 intake calls logged after a weekend of advertising, 31 qualified and sent to attorneys.
- Tuesday: case managers send 60 records requests from the standard template and log each in the tracker.
- Wednesday: an attorney edits the demand template after an adjuster rejects three demands for the same missing exhibit.
- Thursday: the marketing lead posts a channel report to Teams; one campaign is cut.
- Friday: a settlement closes and the lien checklist runs step by step before disbursement.
Process
How it works with each buyer
In each buyer's own published words. Where a buyer publishes nothing, we say so rather than guess.
micro1
- Internal docs, SOPs and playbooks, knowledge bases, project management workflows, internal comms, templates, CRM and workflow metadata, task histories5
- 30 to 200 employees34
- $100K-$2M+ per data package; over $1M for unique data8
- PII removed "when relevant"12
- The company keeps ownership of its data and reviews samples before release39
- Not published
Polyshares
Selling or closing
Selling or closing your firm? License its data first
Plaintiff firms are bought and merged for their case inventory and their intake engine. If you are selling, retiring or folding the practice into another, ask each licensing company whether the intake scripts, SOPs and marketing records can be licensed before the deal, separately from any client file. Buyers have approached companies at exactly this moment: Mercor went to Warmly after HubSpot acquired it.2
FAQ
Personal injury firms: questions, answered
Intake is a repeated, high-volume decision workflow, the pattern micro1 says it looks for. Polyshares names CRM data and call recordings, and micro1 lists CRM and workflow metadata. The scripts and qualification rules describe the firm's method; the callers' details are what to raise with the buyer.42,1,5
The platform is not what decides it; the content is. Task templates, stage definitions and SOPs are firm method, the kind of record Endless lists as in scope for law firms. Matter notes are client matter content, which Endless keeps out. Separate the two before the first call.43
Offers usually come within a few days to two weeks, and payment within 2-8 weeks of signing. Ventra says offers in 3 to 7 days with payment usually net 30 or 60, Polyshares offers in one to two weeks and pays Net 30-60, Mercor wires 2-4 weeks after signing, and micro1's terms pay only after written acceptance of the data.47,15,21,48
We do not answer legal questions. Ask the licensing company: their team reviews this with you before anything is signed.
We do not answer legal questions. Ask the licensing company: their team reviews this with you before anything is signed.
We do not answer legal questions. Ask the licensing company: their team reviews this with you before anything is signed.
We do not answer legal questions. Ask the licensing company: their team reviews this with you before anything is signed.
Before you sign
Legal questions go to the licensing company
We do not answer legal questions. Ask the licensing company before you sign: their team reviews these with you.
Questions for this kind of business
- How are client medical records, bills and HIPAA-covered material handled in your review?
- How will intake call recordings be screened for state recording-consent rules?
- Do settlement agreements with confidentiality terms keep those files out?
- Who owns this data: the company, an estate, or someone else?
- 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?
- Could the data include privileged material or trade secrets?
- Do professional rules apply (AICPA, IRC 7216, HIPAA, ABA Model Rule 1.17, insurance agency contracts, adviser rules, state boards)?
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?