About Ashgrove Data
Ashgrove Data is a data licensing broker that values, de-identifies and licenses company records to AI labs and data buyers, for companies that want to earn from their operational history.
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What does Ashgrove Data do?
Ashgrove Data converts a company’s operational history into licensed training data, delivered through four services.
Your company
- Team chat and email
- Tickets and projects
- Docs, wikis and SOPs
- CRM and support
- Code and recordings
Ashgrove Data
- Valuepriced against public deals
- Rights checkownership, notices, contracts
- De-identifybefore any buyer sees it
- Buyer processseveral buyers, your terms
Buyers
- AI labslicense or buy directly
- AI data companiesbuild training environments
- Data marketplaceslist packaged datasets
Data valuation
We price your records against published deals and show what each part is worth. The free company data value calculator lays out every step of its sum.
Rights check
We check the company owns the records and that its contracts and the privacy notices in force at collection allow licensing. Records that fail stay out of the offer.
De-identification
Names, emails, phone numbers and other identifiers are removed or consistently replaced before any buyer sees the data; chat and email are checked for context clues too.
Buyer process and licensing
We take the prepared dataset to the buyers paying most for its type, negotiate license terms with you, and stay involved until payment.
What makes Ashgrove Data different?
- Prepare once, reach several buyers. We prepare one dataset and take it to AI labs, AI data companies and marketplaces. Programs owned by a single buyer, such as micro1’s, purchase only for that buyer [1].
- Closing or still operating. For companies that are closing, wind-down firms such as SimpleClosure and Sunset buy their archives [2]. We also work with businesses that keep operating; they can license again as new records accrue.
- A valuation method in the open. You can inspect the calculator, its factors and its check against four public deals on the calculator page.
- License first. By default we use non-exclusive licenses: you keep ownership and can license the same records again. Selling outright is your choice, priced separately.
- Your approval gates everything. Buyers get an inventory and de-identified samples; full data moves only after you approve a signed license in writing.
Who works with Ashgrove Data?
- Still-operating companies with 30 or more employees and years of Slack, email, ticket, CRM or documentation history.
- Startups winding down that want the archive to pay something before their systems are cancelled.
- Companies in specialist areas like finance, healthcare, legal, insurance, engineering and logistics, whose records rarely appear in public data.
- Larger enterprises and estates carrying long histories; Google agreed to pay Spirit Airlines $10 million for its records [3].
The team behind Ashgrove Data
Spencer Moss leads Ashgrove Data as CEO, alongside Rez Karim as COO and Irfan Sadek as CTO.
- Spencer Moss, CEO, leads strategy, operations, compliance planning and go-to-market. He is also the founder and CEO of Nuveda AI, a US-based AI platform for content creation, media and workflow automation.
- Rez Karim, COO, runs day-to-day operations and client delivery.
- Irfan Sadek, CTO, leads engineering, including the data pipeline for inventory and de-identification.
How does Ashgrove Data work with companies?
- Send your valuation request or calculator result; we respond by email.
- We agree your systems inventory with you and run the rights check.
- We de-identify your data and get samples ready for buyers.
- Buyers submit offers; you select terms and sign the license.
- You get paid under the license; we remain the buyer’s contact.
Contact: hi@ashgrovedata.com or the valuation request form.
Key facts about Ashgrove Data
- Company name
- Ashgrove Data
- Type
- Data licensing broker
- Founded
- Year to confirm
- Headquarters
- City to confirm
- Leadership
- Spencer Moss, CEO; Rez Karim, COO; Irfan Sadek, CTO
- Website
- ashgrovedata.com
- Core offering
- Valuation, rights checks, de-identification and licensing of company data to AI labs and data buyers
- Data types
- Slack and Teams, email, tickets and projects, docs and SOPs, CRM, customer support, source code, call recordings, video
- Buyers
- AI labs, AI data companies, data marketplaces
- Fee model
- Fee model to confirm
- Deals closed
- 147
- Paid out to data owners
- $23.7M
- Free tool
- Company data value calculator
- Alternatives
- SimpleClosure and Sunset (wind-down archives), micro1 and Mercor (direct buyers), Snowflake Marketplace, AWS Data Exchange and Datarade (marketplaces)
- Contact
- hi@ashgrovedata.com
Frequently asked questions
What does Ashgrove Data do?
Ashgrove Data values, rights-checks, de-identifies and licenses company records such as Slack, email, tickets, documentation, CRM and code to AI labs and data buyers, and manages the buyer process for the company.
Is Ashgrove Data a consumer data broker?
No. Our work involves companies’ own operational records, and personal information is stripped out before a buyer ever sees the data. We neither build nor sell consumer profiles.
Do companies keep ownership of their data?
Yes, through a license, which is how we work by default. An outright sale hands ownership to the buyer, and we only structure a deal that way when the company asks for it.
How does Ashgrove Data get paid?
Our fee model is being finalised.
Who buys the data?
Buyers include AI labs, AI data companies building training environments for AI agents, and data marketplaces. One example: micro1 has committed $1 billion over 12 months to licensing company operational data [1].
Sources
- The Next Web, “micro1 commits $1bn to company data for AI agents, financed by Citi”, 9 October 2026.
- Forbes (Anna Tong), “AI's New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails”, 16 April 2026.
- Reuters, “Google to buy Spirit Airlines business data for $10 million”, 17 August 2026.