Can a wholesale or distribution company sell its data to AI companies, and who buys it?

Who names distribution records

8 buyers in the index name orders, stock, pricing, catalog, procurement or supplier records on their own pages. The table comes straight from the index and changes when a row does.

Sell Business Data names orders, invoices, fulfillment events, customer history, logistics data and supplier information. Corpus Bridge names invoices, orders, ERP and logistics records. The General Data Company, which focuses on industrial companies, names order and stock system exports, quotes and costings, and complaints and credit notes. SuperAnnotate names pricing and catalog histories, Databounties transaction data and pricing histories, Appen ERP and procurement records, and Maryah orders, invoices and payments. AI Training Data Broker publishes a sample lab request for a 35-person industrial parts manufacturer with 11 years of CRM, accounting, inventory and order records; a sample request is what the broker says labs ask for, not a deal.

What the records look like to a buyer

The value buyers describe is the trail from quote to order to delivery and what happened after: the quote and its costing, the sales order, the purchase order to the supplier, the stock movement, the invoice and the payment, the fulfillment event, and the complaint or credit note that closed the loop. Price and catalog changes over time are part of it, which is why two buyers name pricing histories. Years on one ERP connect that trail; a change of system breaks it, and AI Training Data Broker says a software switch resets its three-year clock.

Rules that apply

• Size and years. Databounties takes companies with 11 or more employees, Handshake AI 20+ full-time employees and 3+ years, AI Training Data Broker 30+ and 3+ years on the same tools, and Mode 30+ for most businesses. SuperAnnotate publishes no minimum. The size guide lists every published rule.
• Country. Databounties takes US and UK companies only. Montlake Licensing and Anthroly take US companies only. The General Data Company publishes no rule and is running a European Data Conference in Berlin. The geography guide has the rest.

What has to stay out

Customer and supplier pricing and terms that your contracts keep confidential; personal data of customer and supplier contacts; and anything a supplier agreement bars you from sharing. Every published program licenses a de-identified copy, and Mercor, Appen and Centific say they cover extraction, anonymization and transfer at no cost to the company. We flag the confidentiality question before any introduction.

What buyers publish about money

No buyer publishes a distribution figure. Handshake AI publishes $100K to $4M+ across industries, Montlake Licensing a $500K to $2.6M headline estimate that it says is not an offer, and Replay $10K to $100K for 20 to 50 employees and $100K to $1M for 50 to 250. Published figures are the companies’ own claims, not offers; the published range guide lists every one.

Next step

The free value check compares the buyers that fit your company on size, country and the records you hold, names the consent step up front, and introduces you only with your approval. If you already hold an offer, the free offer review reads its exclusivity, payment and de-identification clauses against what the buyer publishes. The data type guide lists every buyer by the records it names.