How licensing works, in three steps
Your first step is the estimate on our home page. Three steps follow, and none of them goes ahead unless you say yes.
The first step
Three questions make up the home page estimate: the size of your team, how long you have operated and your kind of business. Team size decides where the range starts, and years in business shifts it up or down. Business type never changes the number.
After you submit, a specialist from our licensing partner, License Your Data, calls you within minutes. This first call does not take long. Its purpose is to book a 15-minute call at a time that works for you. Indicative estimate based on your answers. Not an offer or guarantee.
Step one: a 15-minute call
This is a conversation, nothing more. It takes place under NDA, which lets you talk openly about how the business works. The specialist asks what software your team uses, how many years of records it holds, and what you know should be left out.
You will not be asked for a password, an export or access to any system. When the fit is missing, things end with that call.
Step two is a de-identified copy
When you decide to keep going, the team at License Your Data builds a copy of what you selected. The originals never leave your systems. Inside that copy, names and identifiers become placeholders, and every exclusion is simply absent, be it a matter, a client, a folder or a whole system.
Part of the copy then comes to you for review. You either approve, ask for changes, or walk away. Nothing is shared until you approve.
Step three: buyers license the copy
AI labs take a license to the approved copy via License Your Data, then use it for training and testing models. Nothing beyond the approved copy falls under the license. Nothing changes in your own records, systems or daily routines.
It costs you nothing, at any step. Requesting an estimate commits you to nothing.
What is shared and what never is
The line is set before any work starts, and you are the only one who can move it.
Shared once you give approval
- A prepared copy of the records you chose
- Your picked systems, folders and years, nothing else
- Placeholders where names and identifiers were
- Exactly what the approved sample contained
Never shared
- Originals, which remain inside your systems
- Passwords, logins or any system access
- Any system, folder, client or matter you exclude
- Client and patient records at practices in law, accounting and healthcare
Worth a thought beforehand
- Where your chat, email, documents and customer records live
- The number of years each one covers
- Clients, matters or departments to keep out
- Which colleagues should look it over before you sign off
Begin with the estimate
It takes a minute or so, up top on our home page. Then a specialist calls to set up your 15-minute call.
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