DataPacts

Introducer Form: Refer a Company, Estate or Client Holding Data

By DataPacts Editorial Team · Checked

This form lets advisers, liquidators, administrators, trustees and investors tell DataPacts about a company, estate or client that holds data which could be licensed for AI training. DataPacts is an independent reference on AI training data licensing, not a broker. It takes no cut of any sale and promises no buyer, price or outcome.

Page facts follow the DataPacts form rules, and how we source, date and check every figure is set out in the methodology.

Introduce a company, estate or client

DataPacts charges nothing for an introduction or enquiry and takes no cut of any sale. Send a description of the company and its data, never the data itself.

Your role
Company status
Data types (select all that apply)

Who sends an introduction

An introducer is anyone who knows a company, estate or client holding data and is free to say so. The form recognizes four groups of senders:

  • Advisers, such as accountants, lawyers, M&A advisers and fractional CFOs
  • Insolvency office holders, such as liquidators, administrators and trustees
  • Investors winding down or holding a portfolio company
  • Others, who pick "Other" in the role field

Insolvency office holders choose "Liquidator or trustee" in the role field. A company that wants to describe its own data uses the company data enquiry instead, where a company with its own data asks for an independent introduction to suitable buyers.

What DataPacts does with an introduction

DataPacts reads each introduction and compares the company's status and data types with the criteria that buyers publish for the data they acquire. The comparison uses only those published statements.

DataPacts charges the company nothing for an enquiry or introduction, takes no cut of any sale, and has joined no referral program. A future program would be disclosed on the disclosure page and in a one-line note here.

This form is not a buyer's referral program. Buyers' own offers are compared with their published terms on the page of referral programs of AI data buyers compared.

What happens after you send it

Your introduction is read, and DataPacts may contact you about it. It is stored in a database and an email notification reaches the editorial inbox, and the retention period is set out in the privacy notice. No time frame, reply, buyer, price or sale is promised.

  1. The introduction is read by the editorial team.
  2. DataPacts may contact the introducer about it.

Before you name a company, estate or client

Name a company only if you are free to share that it exists and holds data, and send a description, never the data. Check these points first:

  • You may share the name. Client confidentiality is the introducer's own duty, and when in doubt the company is asked first.
  • For a defunct or insolvent company, the person with authority to sell (trustee, administrator or liquidator) knows of the introduction, as set out in how administrators, trustees and liquidators sell data assets in insolvency.
  • The notes describe the kind and age of the data only, with no files or samples.
  • The notes hold no personal data of customers or staff.

In the United States, 11 U.S.C. 504 bars a person receiving compensation or reimbursement under section 503(b)(2) or (b)(4) of the Bankruptcy Code from sharing it, with narrow exceptions, so any fee arrangement around an estate is checked first.

Where an introduction names a person, personal data obtained from someone other than that person triggers an information duty under Article 14(3)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR, applicable since 2018-05-25), within a reasonable period and at the latest within one month, and the privacy notice covers people named in an introduction.

The company decides, and not selling is a valid outcome

The referred company, or the office holder acting for it, decides whether to license any data, and deciding not to is a valid outcome. The decision page on should you sell or license your data to AI companies sets out the benefits, risks and alternatives.

Introducers looking for fee rules, defunct-company sales, funding or updates have separate pages.