https://datatruffle.ai/blog Field notes on the AI training-data market. en-us Thu, 05 Nov 2026 21:37:33 GMT https://datatruffle.ai/blog/what-drives-the-value-of-a-dataset https://datatruffle.ai/blog/what-drives-the-value-of-a-dataset Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Five things move the number more than anything else: years of history, volume, outcome labels, modality, and rights. How each one changes what a buyer will pay, and what you can do about it before going to market. https://datatruffle.ai/blog/red-flags-when-someone-offers-to-buy-your-data https://datatruffle.ai/blog/red-flags-when-someone-offers-to-buy-your-data Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Inbound offers for operational data are landing in owners' inboxes. Most are legitimate. Some are not. Six signals that separate a real buyer or agent from a bad deal, and the question that exposes each one. https://datatruffle.ai/blog/de-identification-explained-for-owners https://datatruffle.ai/blog/de-identification-explained-for-owners Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Before a buyer trains on your records, the people in them are removed. Here is what that means in practice, what a de-identified ticket looks like next to the original, and what belongs in the contract. https://datatruffle.ai/blog/the-case-for-competing-offers https://datatruffle.ai/blog/the-case-for-competing-offers Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT One buyer names one number. Several buyers reveal what the records are worth. A widely reported 2026 bankruptcy auction shows the gap, and the same logic applies to a company that is not for sale. https://datatruffle.ai/blog/what-a-one-page-data-manifest-is https://datatruffle.ai/blog/what-a-one-page-data-manifest-is Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A manifest is an inventory, not a dataset: what records exist, in which systems, over how many years, with what rights. It is the page buyers price from, and the reason you never send data to get a number. https://datatruffle.ai/blog/why-ai-labs-pay-for-operational-records https://datatruffle.ai/blog/why-ai-labs-pay-for-operational-records Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Models have read the public internet. What they have not seen is how a real company runs. That gap is why buyers now license operational records, and why yours may be worth more than you think.