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Updated October 2026

Salesforce data for AI training: can you license it?

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Mercor and Nyne both list Salesforce by name, and micro1 asks for CRM and workflow metadata.1,2,3

Match my companyWhat is it worth?

A Salesforce org is a record of decisions with outcomes attached: an opportunity opened, worked, discounted, won or lost, with every call note, email and stage change logged on the way. That pairing of reasoning and result is rare in other systems.

Mercor and Nyne list Salesforce by name, micro1 asks for CRM and workflow metadata, and Polyshares buys CRM records. This page covers which parts of an org buyers value, which parts are mostly customer data, and what to settle with a buyer before anything is exported.

Buyers

Who buys Salesforce data

Each reason is the buyer's own published statement naming Salesforce or the kind of data it holds.

Featured partners

  1. #1 in our ranking

    7.7 out of 10

    micro1

    Asks for CRM and workflow metadata.3

    Typical payout
    $100K to $2M+, micro1 says4

    Watch out for: Says it removes personal details only "when relevant", so ask exactly how.5

    Get matchedRead the reviewVisit micro1

  2. #2 in our ranking

    7.4 out of 10

    Polyshares

    Buys CRM records alongside email and tickets.6

    Typical payout
    $100K to $2M+, Polyshares says7
    Fees
    None, Polyshares says8
    Time to get paid
    An offer in 1 to 2 weeks, then paid in 30 to 60 days9

    Watch out for: Exclusive by default, and every deal it lists is exclusive with no end date.10,11

    Get matchedRead the reviewVisit Polyshares

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.

  1. #3 in our ranking

    7.1 out of 10

    Mercor

    Lists Salesforce among its supported tools.1

    Typical payout
    Mercor does not publish a range12
    Fees
    None, Mercor says13
    Time to get paid
    By wire 2 to 4 weeks after signing14

    Watch out for: It confirmed a cyberattack in 2026, and class actions followed.15,16

    Read the review

  2. #4 in our ranking

    7.0 out of 10

    Nyne AI

    Lists Salesforce alongside HubSpot, QuickBooks and NetSuite.2

    Typical payout
    $100K or more, Nyne says17

    Watch out for: Pays only after the dataset is accepted, and publishes no timeline.18

    Read the review

We feature buyers that pay us a referral fee. Our scores and reviews don't change for it. How we earn. No buyer publishes prices by industry, so within each group the order is the same as in our main ranking.

What buyers value

What in Salesforce buyers value

The column on the right is not legal advice: it lists what to raise with the buyer before anything is exported.

What in Salesforce buyers value
DataWhy a buyer values itRaise with the buyer
Opportunity history and stage changesSales decisions with the win or loss recorded.Nothing specific
Activity logs, call notes and logged emailThe reasoning behind each step of a deal.Customer contact names and details.
Cases and support historyProblems and resolutions, often linked to the account.Nothing specific
Workflow rules, flows and approval processesThe company's process written as configuration. This is the metadata micro1 names.Nothing specific
Quotes, products and pricing recordsPricing decisions in context.Customer-specific pricing.

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

What it buys
Internal docs, SOPs and playbooks, knowledge bases, project management workflows, internal comms, templates, CRM and workflow metadata, task histories3
Who qualifies
30 to 200 employees19
Offer range
$100K-$2M+ per data package; over $1M for unique data4
Personal data
PII removed "when relevant"5
Ownership
The company keeps ownership of its data and reviews samples before release20
Time to payment
Not published

Polyshares

What it buys
Slack, email, Drive, CRM, tickets, design files, calls and ERP6
Offer range
$100K-$2M+7
Personal data
A third-party PII partner scrubs data before it is licensed21
Excluded data
Data held on behalf of clients is excluded22
Fees
Charges sellers no fee8
Time to offer and payment
Offer 1-2 weeks after intake; paid Net 30-609

Mercor

What it buys
Slack, Teams, Gmail, Outlook, Confluence, Salesforce, GitHub, Drive, Notion and 100+ other tools1
Who qualifies
Not published
Offer range
Not published12
Fees
No fees13
Security
SOC 2 Type II23
Time to payment
Wire 2-4 weeks after signing14

Nyne AI

What it buys
QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Salesforce, HubSpot, Asana and Jira2
Who qualifies
20+ US W-2 employees and 3+ years in business24
Offer range
$100K or more17
Offer policy
Says it beats written offers from other buyers25

FAQ

Salesforce data: questions, answered

  • Yes. Mercor and Nyne list Salesforce among the tools they buy data from, micro1 asks for CRM and workflow metadata, and Polyshares buys CRM records.1,2,3,6

  • You can offer it. micro1 asks for workflow metadata as well as CRM data, and flows, approval processes and stage definitions describe how your company sells without naming customers. Expect it to be priced as a smaller package.3

  • No buyer prices CRM separately. Published figures are the buyers' own claims and mostly run from $100K to $2M for a whole company's data, as micro1, Cognor Labs and Ventra state; monsterdata.ai cites $50K-$1M for a one-time sale. The calculator gives our estimate.4,26,27,28

  • Usually a company with 20 to 30 or more staff. Nyne, Cognor Labs and Goldmined.ai set the bar near 20, micro1 and Return My Time near 30, and Mercor, Troveo and Jottings AI publish no minimum.24,29,30,31,32,33,34,35

  • Ask each buyer for its method in writing. Polyshares says a third-party partner scrubs personal data before licensing; micro1 says PII is removed when relevant.21,5

  • 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

  • Do customer agreements or our privacy notice restrict this use of CRM data?
  • Which export method will you use, and does our Salesforce agreement allow it?
  • Will customer names and contact details 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?

How this page was made

Every figure comes from a published source listed below, each with the date we checked it. Buyer statements are the buyer's own claims and are marked so in the source list. Firm counts come from the US Census Bureau's Statistics of US Businesses. Anything marked as our estimate is ours, not a buyer quote.

Drafted with AI assistance from our research files, then checked against each source. Reviewed 14 Oct 2026. Last updated 14 Oct 2026.

We feature companies that pay us a referral fee. Our scores and reviews don't change for it. See how we earn and how we rank. This site does not give legal, tax or financial advice.

Sources (35)

  1. 1.Mercor Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  2. 2.Nyne sell-company-data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  3. 3.micro1 Enterprise Data Partnership page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  4. 4.micro1 company referral page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  5. 5.beri.net, published 10 Oct 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  6. 6.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  7. 7.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  8. 8.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  9. 9.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  10. 10.Polyshares data handling page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  11. 11.Polyshares track record page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  12. 12.Mercor Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  13. 13.Mercor Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  14. 14.Mercor Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  15. 15.TechCrunch, published 31 Mar 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  16. 16.HR Dive, published 13 Apr 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  17. 17.Nyne sell-company-data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  18. 18.Nyne sell-company-data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  19. 19.micro1 Enterprise Data Partnership page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  20. 20.beri.net, published 10 Oct 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  21. 21.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  22. 22.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  23. 23.Mercor Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  24. 24.Nyne sell-company-data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  25. 25.Nyne sell-company-data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  26. 26.Cognor Labs partners page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  27. 27.Ventra company data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  28. 28.monsterdata.ai estimate page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  29. 29.Cognor Labs partners page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  30. 30.Goldmined.ai check page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  31. 31.micro1 company referral page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  32. 32.Return My Time Sell My Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  33. 33.Mercor Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  34. 34.Troveo business data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  35. 35.Jottings FAQ. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.