Frequently asked questions

This site won't estimate yours. Mode marketing materials cite a potential range of $100,000 to $5 million. That's not a valuation, estimate or guarantee for any company. Many companies may not qualify or may receive less, and any offer depends on partner review and a written agreement. This site doesn't state an amount or a date for any company. If a company accepts an offer, payment follows the agreement it actually signs.

Established businesses with documented office workflows and several years of usable history. Requirements vary by provider, sector and dataset, and the provider confirms fit for its own program. No single headcount on this site decides anything. Desk work is what counts: people who work in the company's email and software. Field crews, rig hands, shop-floor workers and jobsite crews aren't the qualifying desk count. Whether contractors count depends on the provider and on how the work is documented. Run the readiness check or see where the work lives.

Law firms of all practice areas may qualify: personal injury, family, estate planning, business, real estate, title opinion, immigration, employment and more. A firm isn't automatically in. Smaller specialist firms may warrant individual review, fit is confirmed by the provider, and privilege and client confidentiality aren't waived. See the law firms page.

This website doesn't decide that. A possible license is defined in an agreement you review first: what's included, how it may be used and what stays with the company. Nothing here is a transfer, and nothing moves before that review.

Examples of how real work gets done: the sequence of steps people take across software to finish a job. Think of a support request moving from an email to a ticket, through an approval, and on to a resolution. The value is in the workflow, the decisions and the outcome.

Work the company created in the software it already uses: customer emails, support chats and tickets in a desk such as Zendesk or Freshdesk, spreadsheets, CRM notes, project and task history, team discussions, meeting records where recording was permitted, shared files, bookkeeping and billing, and GIS layers, maps and spatial analysis the company produced. A licensed base map or third-party dataset under that work is separate. The examples are illustrations, not a list of files you must hand over, and a ticket or a map isn't automatically eligible.

Not by the login. Those names are examples of where a company may have created support tickets, task history, team discussions or its own books. A subscription doesn't make every ticket, message, board or ledger yours. Client material and confidentiality are reviewed before anything is included, and the provider confirms fit.

Yes. Scope is a choice. Systems, date ranges, record types and whole categories can be left out. Discussing a description of your records isn't permission to take them.

Kept out unless a review and the agreement say otherwise: privileged material and client matter files, health information and biometric data, payment card and bank account numbers, passwords and credentials, data about minors, export-controlled or classified information, another party's data or licensed third-party content, and sensitive personnel, safety or critical infrastructure details. Scope is a choice, so you can leave out anything else, such as pricing or trade secrets.

Names, email addresses, phone numbers and account numbers are part of what a careful scope tries to keep out of a training copy, by removal or by replacement, as the agreement requires. That work is contractual and operational. It's not a switch this website throws, and it's not offered as zero-risk protection. See the fictional example.

No. Stripping a name, redacting a caption or substituting a fictional one doesn't by itself end attorney-client privilege, work-product protection or a duty of confidentiality. A firm decides what it owns and what it's free to license.

The intent of this kind of license is a private arrangement, not a public release of a company's files. Confidentiality, who may see a copy and whether it can be shared onward belong in the agreement. Read that section with counsel before you sign.

No. Continuing to the fit check doesn't commit you to anything. If a provider wants to proceed, the offer is in writing, and you read it before anything moves.

No. The starting point is the history your team has already built in its existing software.

Reading this site and continuing to the fit check has no fee charged here. Any commercial terms belong in an agreement you review before you commit. Exploring fit doesn't promise an offer or a payment.

This site doesn't state an amount or a date. If a company accepts an offer, payment follows the agreement it actually signs. A timeline mentioned during a fit check is that provider's description, not a promise from BidMyData, and it's not owed because someone started a conversation.

No. This site doesn't ask for raw files, passwords, client examples or exports. There's no upload. The fit check starts from a description of the company and its records.

The fit check is run by a third party at historypays.com. BidMyData doesn't operate that check. The button leaves this site for that form.

We don't name individual AI labs on this site. If a provider wants to proceed, the offer and the agreement are in writing, and you read them before anything moves.

Sometimes. It depends on who holds the rights to the records now and on the provider's own review.

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