micro1 pays to license an anonymized copy of the documented processes a company already runs on. On their own site they publish three tiers:
Those are ranges, not quotes. micro1 sets the figure after its assessment, based on the volume, quality and uniqueness of the data and the complexity of the workflows.
It is not a job, not a loan, and not a sales pitch for a product. There are no targets to hit and no milestones. It can be a single snapshot, and micro1 also offers ongoing participation for larger datasets.
Margins are tight right now. This is a payment that doesn't depend on orders, rates, or volume — cash that doesn't care your margins are squeezed.
Why they want it: models are good at short tasks and bad at long ones that cross several systems — the kind of work your team does all day. That isn't on the internet to learn from, which is why they're buying it from companies instead. Their founder notes that contributors' own workflows end up better represented in what gets trained, and improved as a result.
Who they're looking for:
If that number sounds made up, the market behind it isn't. Meta paid roughly $14.8 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI — a company whose entire product is AI training data. OpenAI has licensed news archives for up to $250 million over five years. Both are easy to check. Operational data from ordinary companies is the part of that market nobody has bought yet.
A 2-minute form, then micro1's team checks whether the data is a fit, then partnership discussions. The agreement comes before any data is shared — it sets how the data is anonymized, how long it's kept and when it's deleted — and the company keeps ownership of its data.
If you decide to move forward with this offer, please make sure to apply through the link below — that's the only way I get credit for bringing it to you.