Jira is where a team writes down what it decided to build and what went wrong. An epic breaks into stories, a bug report collects reproduction steps and a stack trace, a sprint retro records why the estimate slipped. Linked to commits and to the Slack thread where the fix was argued over, it is one of the richest records a software team keeps.
Nyne lists Jira among the tools it buys from, micro1 asks for project management workflows and task histories, and Mercor has pursued the Slack and Jira archives of startups that shut down. This page covers which parts of a Jira site buyers value, what usually has to come out, and what to ask before an export.
Buyers
Who buys Jira data
Each reason is the buyer's own published statement naming Jira or the kind of data it holds.
Featured partners
micro1
Asks for project management workflows and task histories.3
- $100K to $2M+, micro1 says4
Watch out for: Says it removes personal details only "when relevant", so ask exactly how.5
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.
Mercor
Has pursued shuttered startups' Slack and Jira archives.2
Watch out for: It confirmed a cyberattack in 2026, and class actions followed.9,10
Nyne AI
Lists Jira by name, alongside Asana, Salesforce and HubSpot.11
- $100K or more, Nyne says12
Watch out for: Pays only after the dataset is accepted, and publishes no timeline.13
What buyers value
What in Jira buyers value
The column on the right is not legal advice: it lists what to raise with the buyer before anything is exported.
| Data | Why a buyer values it | Raise with the buyer |
|---|---|---|
| Bug reports with resolution history | A defect, the steps to reproduce it and the fix, in order. | Nothing specific |
| Epics and stories with acceptance criteria | How the team turned an idea into specified work. | Nothing specific |
| Issue links to commits and pull requests | Planning tied to the code that delivered it, which buyers value most. | Whether the linked code is yours or a client's. |
| Comments and status changes | The discussion and hand-offs between roles, step by step. | Nothing specific |
| Service desk queues | Internal or customer requests with outcomes. | Requester names and contact details. |
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 histories3
- 30 to 200 employees14
- $100K-$2M+ per data package; over $1M for unique data4
- PII removed "when relevant"5
- The company keeps ownership of its data and reviews samples before release15
- Not published
Mercor
FAQ
Jira data: questions, answered
The sale of 13 years of Slack, Jira and email was reported at hundreds of thousands of dollars. That covers the whole archive, not Jira alone.1
Buyers that take code often take tickets with it. Turing's Project Lazarus licenses code, tickets, communications and decision records together, and says it pays up to $1M in one payment, its own figure.20
No. Polyshares says it excludes data held on behalf of clients, and you set the scope. Internal projects and your own product backlog are the cleaner package.26
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
- Which export method will you use, and does our Atlassian agreement allow it?
- Are projects run for clients excluded?
- Will names and emails in comments be removed before any lab sees the data?
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?