For AI developers and data research companies
Authorized company records, sourced to your request.
FirmLedge finds owners and estates whose records fit a buyer's written request, writes the inventory, and describes each company to you first without its name. Approvals, de-identification and contracting are coordinated with the source's advisers.
FirmLedge is early-stage, with no ready-to-license catalog. Availability, preparation and timing are confirmed for each proposed package.
What FirmLedge brings
The sell side, organized before you see it.
The sectors we source from: industrial, manufacturing, food and agricultural, distribution and service businesses; finance and professional firms through their estates or advisers; other categories case by case.
- 01Authorized sources.
Owners and estates whose authority to license is established for the specific package, with any court, lender or creditor approval their counsel says applies.
- 02Unnamed first.
Each company is described to you without its name: systems, years and rough counts. The name follows the source's approval.
- 03An inventory written by FirmLedge.
We write it with whoever knows the systems, so you start from a description of what survives and how it connects.
- 04Your intake, your de-identification.
Where you perform extraction or de-identification, raw-record access is under NDA and a separately approved handling agreement limited to those steps. It does not authorize evaluation, training, product use or any other use.
- 05Approvals and contracting coordinated.
We work with the source's counsel and advisers on approvals, notices and contracting, and provide what any motion, notice or report needs, including our fee arrangement.
What you receive, and when
Profile, introduction, sample, license.
An unnamed profile
The systems, years and rough counts, without the company's name. No files or logins are shared at this stage.
A named introduction, after the source approves
Once the source approves going further, you learn who the company is and can confirm fit with the source's advisers.
A sample under your process
If you ask for a narrow sample or schema review, the source decides whether to provide one, under NDA and agreed access terms. De-identification is completed before evaluation, which requires separate release approval and agreed terms.
A written license
Permitted uses, de-identification and any exclusivity are set in the written license the source approves. Delivery follows those terms.
Who pays FirmLedge: when you engage FirmLedge to source records, you pay FirmLedge and the source pays no FirmLedge fee. The source sees all offers received for the agreed package, with FirmLedge's compensation and who pays disclosed alongside them, so your fee to FirmLedge is shown next to your proposal.
| Customer | Invoice | Issued | Amount | Collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-014 | INV-2291 | 2025-03-04 | 18,420.00 | 2025-04-17 |
| C-014 | INV-2306 | 2025-03-19 | 7,980.00 | 2025-05-02 |
| C-022 | INV-2311 | 2025-03-21 | 42,150.00 | 2025-04-04 |
| C-031 | INV-2318 | 2025-03-28 | 3,260.00 | open |
Transformation record
- 01Customer and vendor names replaced with consistent IDs
- 02Addresses, contacts, bank and tax identifiers removed
- 03Invoice-to-payment links and aging preserved
- 04212 GL accounts mapped to 38 standard lines, documented
- 05Example: owner approval recorded for release v3
- 06Example permitted uses: AI training and evaluation
All figures, mappings, approvals and uses are illustrative, not a completed transaction. Explore a separate fictional example with downloadable records.
A separate service
Custom datasets, tasks and verified answers.
Custom datasets are scoped separately from company-record licensing. Inputs may be original, synthetic, properly licensed or a documented combination, built to fill specific coverage, structure or difficulty requirements.
Tasks, practitioner-checked answers with working, and grading criteria can be built on a licensed package or a custom dataset. Acquired records and custom datasets are treated separately, each with its own scope, inputs and permitted uses agreed in writing.
- format
- Agreed JSON, tables or linked documents
- fields
- Field definitions and references that connect records
- checks
- Quality checks and known limitations
- transformations
- Removals, substitutions, mappings and corrections recorded
- optional
- Custom schemas, annotations, tasks, verified answers, grading and integration support
Rights and privacy
Documented preparation. Defined uses.
Traceability explains the delivered package while protecting restricted originals and confidential source terms.
- Rights follow the source agreement. Intended uses, onward licensing and any exclusivity must be supported by the rights obtained.
- Release requires review. The source approves the release, recipients and uses before evaluation or licensing. Any preparation access by your technical team requires separate permission.
- Sanitization has limits. Removing names does not guarantee anonymity. Distinctive figures can still identify a business or person.
- Some records stay out from the start. Personnel, payroll and timekeeping files; biometric time-clock data; bank and card data; government IDs, I-9s and medical notes; privileged legal files; customer-owned patterns and drawings; export-controlled data; records covered by NDAs or vendor terms that bar the use; and anything a court order did not preserve.
Questions buyers ask
Before the first call.
Is there inventory available today?
Can we evaluate before we buy?
Who pays FirmLedge?
Who owns the underlying records?
Who handles de-identification?
What kinds of businesses and records?
Can we get tasks and answer keys?
What if we need a separate evaluation set?
How are engagement terms agreed?
Start with a conversation
Describe your request.
The sector, systems, years of history, workflow connections and intended use your request needs. Keep the first note non-confidential.