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Glossary of referral and data licensing terms
Definitions of the terms used on this site. General AI data terms are in the SourceX glossary.
- Referral fee
- A payment to the person who introduced a company, made if that company’s data deal closes. SourceX publishes up to $100,000 in referral fees on deals that close, paid after the buyer accepts the data and SourceX receives payment.
- Referral partner
- Someone who introduces companies to SourceX: often an investor, advisor, consultant or operator who knows which companies hold licensable data.
- Data partnership
- An arrangement in which a business licenses proprietary data to an AI developer through SourceX, on terms the business approves.
- Data supplier
- The business that holds the data and licenses it. Suppliers confirm their right to license data before delivery.
- Data buyer
- The AI developer that licenses the data, such as a frontier model developer, AI lab or training and evaluation partner.
- Data licensing
- Granting permission to use data for agreed purposes without transferring ownership. See also data licensing on sourcex.si.
- Permitted use
- What a buyer may do with licensed data, for example model training, evaluation only, or internal research. Each offer states it.
- Exclusive snapshot
- Exclusivity granted for an agreed snapshot of a dataset, so no other buyer can license that same snapshot during the agreed term.
- De-identification
- Removing or replacing names, contact details, account numbers and other identifiers before delivery. Requirements are agreed before work begins. See also data anonymization.
- Provenance record
- A record of where a dataset came from, who authorized it and what was done to it.
- Executed agreement
- A signed agreement. SourceX delivers data only after one is in place and the supplier has authorized delivery.
- Closed deal
- A data deal that completes. Referral fees are paid only on closed deals, under the published referral terms, after the buyer accepts the data and SourceX receives payment.
- Source system
- The software a company’s records live in, such as Zendesk, Jira, Salesforce, NetSuite or Google Drive.
- Wind-down
- The process of closing a company: selling assets, settling obligations and ending operations. Archives can often still be licensed during or after it.
- Assignment for the benefit of creditors (ABC)
- A state-law alternative to bankruptcy in which a company transfers its assets to an assignee, who sells them and distributes the proceeds to creditors.
- Consumer privacy ombudsman
- In US bankruptcy cases, a disinterested person the US trustee appoints, at the court’s direction, to advise on a proposed sale of customers’ personally identifiable information that conflicts with the company’s privacy policy.
Know a company with years of records?
Introduce the company to SourceX. If its data deal closes, you can earn up to $100,000 in referral fees, paid after the buyer accepts the data and SourceX receives payment.