GoKawiilAI data brokers like Micro1 pay firms millions for old Slack archives
Micro1 CEO Ali Ansari says roughly 200 businesses approach his company daily to explore selling internal records such as Slack messages and presentations to AI firms for training data, according to the New York Post. Payouts reportedly range from a few hundred thousand dollars to several million, with defunct Spirit Airlines said to have sold its operational data for about $10 million.
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The trend suggests dormant corporate data could become a new monetizable asset class, potentially incentivizing companies to retain rather than delete old records. Ansari predicts licensing could become as routine a revenue stream as advertising, though smaller firms may be excluded due to insufficient data volume, and imperfect anonymization raises privacy concerns that remain unresolved.
- Micro1 sees about 200 companies daily inquire about selling internal data to AI firms.
- Payouts range from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, per CEO Ali Ansari.
- Anonymization of sensitive data is imperfect, raising ongoing privacy risks, Ansari acknowledges.
Source: entrepreneur.com — Jonathan Small, 2026-11-12
Published there as: “Don’t Delete Your Old Slack. Selling It to AI Can Be ‘Quite Lucrative.’”
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