Expert and RL data buyers that pay negotiated deal: 4 buyers
This list of expert and RL data buyers that pay negotiated deal holds 4 buyers. Of the 4, 1 publishes a price anchor. The first three are Mercor (experts $100 to $500/hr), Handshake AI (price not published) and Scale AI (price not published). None of the 4 licenses non-exclusively.
Sells for: domain experts, companies.
Buyers named: labs, Fortune 500.
Listed for a published rate and reported payouts.
Sells for: companies, domain experts.
Buyers named: labs.
Listed for a stated payout model and a referral program.
Sells for: companies, domain experts.
Buyers named: Meta (49% owner), government.
Listed for named lab customers and a stated payout model.
Sells for: defunct startups, domain experts.
Buyers named: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, Meta.
Listed for reported payouts and named lab customers.
What differs for expert and RL data buyers that pay negotiated deal
A negotiated deal means the terms are set deal by deal. 1 of the 4 buyers also publishes a rate per unit of data. None of the 4 offers a second payout model as well. Payout models across the list: negotiated deal (4). Beyond expert and RL data, these buyers also take company data (4). The seller types they name most often are domain experts (4), companies (3) and defunct startups (1). On minimums, 4 publish nothing on it.
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