Short answer: At 50+ employees, a US company meets the published size rules of Mode, Handshake AI, micro1 and Scale AI, and Turing publishes no size rule. The differences are elsewhere: Mode excludes insurance, staffing and title companies and needs 5+ systems; Mode publishes US bands ($400K-$900K at 50-149, $800K+ at 150+); exclusivity terms vary. Get several written offers.
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| As published | Mode (BizBuyData) We may be paid | Handshake AI No relationship | micro1 Enterprise Data Partnership We may be paid | Scale AI Data Partnerships No relationship | Turing (Project Lazarus) No relationship |
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| Headcount rule | 10+ employees for legal; 15+ for accounting, medical and finance; 50+ for all others | 20+ full-time employees and 3+ years in operation | 30+ employees | 40+ employees is its preferred starting point, assessed case by case | Not published |
| Countries | United States, Canada, United Kingdom or Australia only | Not published on its license page (its form asks for country) | US prioritized, then other Western markets; data primarily in English | Not published | Not published on the page we could read |
| Years, systems, records | 3+ years of records still in their systems; 5+ systems (email, internal chat, file storage, a CRM, plus one more) | Business records from tools such as Gmail, Slack, Drive, NetSuite, QuickBooks and Figma | Mature business operations with operational data such as SOPs, internal documentation, knowledge bases, CRM metadata, project histories and QA processes | Years of records in established systems; real operational workflows | The operating record: communications, code and tickets, wikis and runbooks |
| Published payout or price | $100K to $5M program-wide. US indicative bands: $200K-$500K (20-49 staff), $400K-$900K (50-149), $800K+ (150+); under 20 quoted individually | $100K to $4M+ payouts | $100K-$2M+ for approved data packages | $10K-$1M+ illustrative value per data partnership, scaling with cadence | A single payout of up to $1M |
| Exclusivity | Exclusive. The company agrees not to license the same data for external AI training for 24 months (affiliate FAQ); the company page says the agreement defines scope and any exclusivity | Not published | Not published on its company referral page | Not published | Not published |
| Data excluded | Health records, payment card data and children's data are excluded. Not a fit: staffing, insurance, title and escrow | Not published; says data is scoped, de-identified and confidential | Not published on its company referral page | Not published; says it anonymizes inside your environment before extraction | Not published; says personal data and secrets are removed before anything reaches a model |
Sources, read October 21, 2026: Mode, Mode affiliate FAQ (PDF, dated Oct 14, 2026), Mode company data partnerships page (FAQ), Handshake AI, Handshake: Introducing Handshake AI Employer Data Partnerships, micro1, micro1 Referral Program Terms (last updated Oct 14, 2026), Scale AI, Turing Lazarus. "Not published" means we could not find it on the program's public pages, not that no rule exists.
Who should pick which
US company, 5+ systems, eligible industry
Mode publishes the most detail, including a 50-149 band of $400K-$900K. Compare with Handshake AI, micro1 and Scale AI.
Insurance, staffing or title / escrow
Not Mode. Handshake AI, micro1 and Scale AI publish no industry exclusions (Scale lists insurance brokerage and staffing as industries of interest).
Canada, UK or Australia
Mode lists these.
You want recurring revenue
Scale AI says it designs partnerships with an opportunity for recurring revenue.
Winding down
Turing's Project Lazarus names operating and winding-down companies.
Before you sign anything exclusive
Mode's license is exclusive for 24 months per its affiliate FAQ. The others don't publish exclusivity on the pages we read. Read exclusivity, explained.
How we rank and what we're paid
How we rank. We order programs first by whether a company like yours meets each program's published rules, then by how much each program publishes (headcount, countries, records, price, exclusivity, exclusions, timeline). Referral fees play no part. Of the programs compared here, we have referral relationships with Mode and micro1 (marked We may be paid); we have none with the other programs listed.
Sponsored placements: there are none on this page. If we ever accept one, it will be labeled Sponsored where it appears.
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Frequently asked questions
What could a 100-person company be offered?
Mode's US band for 50-149 staff is $400K-$900K. Handshake AI's estimator and range ($100K-$4M+) and micro1's $100K-$2M+ are program-wide. None are offers.
Should I talk to more than one?
Yes, until you sign. Offers and terms differ and only Mode publishes its exclusivity length.
Do any charge the company?
None of the buyers here state a fee to the company.
Sources
- Mode / BizBuyData referral pagebizbuydata.com
- Mode affiliate FAQ (PDF, dated Oct 14, 2026)bizbuydata.com
- Handshake AI data partnerships: license pagejoinhandshake.com
- micro1 company referral pagemicro1.ai
- Scale AI Data Partnerships page and FAQscale.com
- Turing, Project Lazarus pagelazarus.turing.com
Referral-fee disclosure: DataWorth AI may be paid a referral fee by Mode or micro1 if a company we introduce, or that signs up through our link, signs a deal. Mode says its fee is paid on top of the company's offer, not out of it. We are not an agent of any program. General information only, not legal advice. Disclosure