{
  "name": "Quiet Asset price index",
  "url": "https://quietasset.com/prices/",
  "note": "Public price points only. kind=claim is a buyer’s own published headline range (not a deal); report is a reported sale or offer; builder is what labs pay environment builders. None of these are our deals.",
  "points": [
    {
      "id": "replay",
      "kind": "claim",
      "what": "Company records, priced by staff size",
      "figure": "$10K–$100K for 20–50 employees; $100K–$1M for 50–250; $1M+ for 250+",
      "note": "Replay’s headline bands; it says head count is only a proxy. A buyer’s claim, not a reported deal.",
      "source": "Replay’s own page, read 2026-10-18",
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "readOn": "2026-10-18"
    },
    {
      "id": "mode",
      "kind": "claim",
      "what": "Data programme for operating companies",
      "figure": "$100K–$5M",
      "note": "Described by the buyer as indicative, subject to a full review.",
      "source": "Mode’s own page, read 2026-10-18",
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "readOn": "2026-10-18"
    },
    {
      "id": "corpus",
      "kind": "claim",
      "what": "Company data licence",
      "figure": "Deals “start at $100K”; largest to date “$2M”",
      "note": "Corpus’s own headline figures, subject to its diligence. A buyer’s claim, not a reported deal.",
      "source": "Corpus’s own page, read 2026-10-18",
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "readOn": "2026-10-18"
    },
    {
      "id": "telegraph",
      "kind": "claim",
      "what": "Data licence from a company",
      "figure": "$100K–$4M",
      "note": "Telegraph Lab’s headline range, subject to data review. A buyer’s claim, not a reported deal.",
      "source": "Telegraph Lab’s own page, read 2026-10-18",
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "readOn": "2026-10-18"
    },
    {
      "id": "handshake",
      "kind": "claim",
      "what": "Data licence from a company",
      "figure": "$100K to $4M+",
      "note": "Handshake’s headline range. A buyer’s claim, not a reported deal.",
      "source": "Handshake AI’s own page, read 2026-10-18",
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "readOn": "2026-10-18"
    },
    {
      "id": "nyne",
      "kind": "claim",
      "what": "Company data from qualifying businesses",
      "figure": "“Six figures” (in dollars) for qualifying businesses",
      "note": "Published by the buyer; it asks for 20+ employees and 3+ years in business.",
      "source": "Nyne’s own page, read 2026-10-17",
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "readOn": "2026-10-17"
    },
    {
      "id": "simpleclosure",
      "kind": "report",
      "what": "One data point: code and workspace data of shut-down startups",
      "figure": "$10k–$100k per company",
      "note": "Typical payouts across 150+ deals by a wind-down service.",
      "source": "SimpleClosure, reported by MIT Technology Review",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/13/1145755/ai-labs-buying-data-from-dead-startups-to-train-models/",
      "readOn": "2026-10-18"
    },
    {
      "id": "small-codebase",
      "kind": "report",
      "what": "One data point: a small startup’s code, then its Slack, Notion and Figma",
      "figure": "About $25k, plus about $15k",
      "note": "One founder’s account; the workspace sale was still pending.",
      "source": "MIT Technology Review",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/13/1145755/ai-labs-buying-data-from-dead-startups-to-train-models/",
      "readOn": "2026-10-18"
    },
    {
      "id": "cielo24",
      "kind": "report",
      "what": "13 years of Slack, email and Jira from one company",
      "figure": "“Hundreds of thousands” of dollars",
      "note": null,
      "source": "Forbes, via Slashdot",
      "sourceUrl": "https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/04/18/014244/shuttered-startups-are-selling-old-slack-chats-emails-to-ai-companies",
      "readOn": "2026-10-17"
    },
    {
      "id": "warmly",
      "kind": "report",
      "what": "One data point: code and task records of an acquired startup",
      "figure": "Offers up to $300k (all declined)",
      "note": null,
      "source": "The Information, via FNNews",
      "sourceUrl": "https://en.fnnews.com/news/202608141625145080",
      "readOn": "2026-10-17"
    },
    {
      "id": "micro1",
      "kind": "claim",
      "what": "Licence of an operating company’s data",
      "figure": "Tiers of $100k+, $500k+ and $1M+",
      "note": "Published by the buyer. The top tier is for “highly unique” data.",
      "source": "micro1’s own page, read 2026-10-17",
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "readOn": "2026-10-17"
    },
    {
      "id": "scale",
      "kind": "claim",
      "what": "Data licence from an operating company",
      "figure": "“$10K–$1M+” per agreement",
      "note": "Described by the buyer as illustrative.",
      "source": "Scale AI’s own page, read 2026-10-17",
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "readOn": "2026-10-17"
    },
    {
      "id": "epoch-task",
      "kind": "builder",
      "what": "One training task in an RL environment",
      "figure": "$200–$2,000; exclusive deals cost 4–5×",
      "note": "What labs pay environment builders, not what data owners receive.",
      "source": "Epoch AI",
      "sourceUrl": "https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/state-of-rl-envs",
      "readOn": "2026-10-17"
    },
    {
      "id": "epoch-env",
      "kind": "builder",
      "what": "A full RL environment: website replica to Slack-grade replica",
      "figure": "About $20k to about $300k",
      "note": "Builder pricing; shows how labs value realistic workplace data.",
      "source": "Epoch AI",
      "sourceUrl": "https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/state-of-rl-envs",
      "readOn": "2026-10-17"
    }
  ]
}