Data licensing, made easy — for enterprises of every size
AI labs, funds, and corporates are licensing data from companies that never sold it before. Brickroad gets your feed license-ready and routes it to the right buyer — you keep ownership, your brand, and your terms.
Get license-ready. Stay license-ready.
Today you have three options: sell your data outright and watch the upside walk away with it, hand it to a broker who wraps it in their brand and their timeline, or list it on a marketplace and run the sales cycle yourself. All three assume you already are a data vendor. Brickroad starts earlier — we compose, evaluate, enhance, connect, and route your feed, then keep it license-ready as it refreshes. We do not buy your data, and we are not owned by anyone who does.
The readiness work, automated
Tell us more about your data and we'll compose, evaluate, enhance, connect, and route it to the right buyer, at the right time, for the right price.
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Compose
Bring your feed as it is, with your schema, cadence, and coverage. We normalize it into a buyer-ready package built on the Croissant metadata standard, so every buyer reads your data the same way.
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Evaluate / backtest
Automated backtests and evaluations showcase what your feed is worth to buyers as documented utility. Evaluation history cannot be reconstructed later; it starts accruing the day you connect.
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Enhance & anonymize
We clean and anonymize the data, then enhance and annotate it where that raises its value, so your feed leaves this stage worth more than it arrived.
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Connect
Your feed becomes a unified endpoint on the network: one place every buyer can discover, license, and purchase your data.
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Route
Delivery to the right buyer, at the right time, for the right price, across AI labs, funds, corporates, and agents. Every license routes proceeds back to you.
Connect Once - Sell Everywhere
One connection point reaches every buyer already licensing through Brickroad. No buyout, no white-label — exclusivity is your choice, never a requirement. Your data, your terms, your name on it.
Suppliers
Your dataset
Your feed
The multiplexer
Brickroad
Automated Multiplexer
Buyers
- AI Lab
- Corporate Buyer
- Finance Firm
- AI Agent
↑ Proceeds to you
From first package to Market Ready
Build the information package, reach Market Ready, and connect to the Registry. Brickroad reviews every source before buyers see it.
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Start the information package
Company, contact, and what you actually produce. Buyers need a named human more than a polished deck.
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Describe coverage and samples
Provenance, universe, GICS, tickers if you have them, and a sample buyers can diligence without a call.
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Set license terms
Approximate your Programmable Data License parameters — or upload the paper you already use. Exclusivity is a term you set, not one we set for you.
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Submit for review
Brickroad reviews the source and sample before anything enters the Registry. You get a ZIP of the package.
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Connected, then multiplexed
Once live, the multiplexer keeps you license-ready — each refresh is re-packaged, re-evaluated, and routed to buyer demand.
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Sitting on data? Here's how your options compare.
Brickroad takes any company, runs on technology instead of a sales team, and carries your data through every step from raw files to paid delivery.
| Data marketplacesProtege, Neudata, Datarade, Defined.ai, CarbonArc | Data brokersBright Data, Nomad Data, Dawex | Human data companiesMercor, Handshake, Surge, Scale | UsBrickroad | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How the relationship works | ||||
| Never competes with your dataset | No | No | No | Yes |
| Takes any company, any size, no invitation | No | No | No | Yes |
| Start today, no sales call or custom contract | No | No | No | Yes |
| Built around what buyers actually want | No | No | No | Yes |
| Technology, not a team of middlemen | No | No | No | Yes |
| What happens to your data | ||||
| ComposeData normalization and metadata augmentation | No | No | No | Yes |
| Evaluate and backtestRuns tests that show buyers what your data is worth | No | No | Partial | Yes |
| Enhance and anonymizeCleans, annotates, and de-identifies to add value | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| ConnectAttaches a single unified endpoint to your data | No | No | No | Yes |
| RouteDelivers to the right buyer, at the right time | No | No | No | Yes |
| Who buys | ||||
| Reaches AI labs, enterprises, and financial firms | Partial | Yes | Partial | Yes |
Comparisons reflect publicly available information as of September 2026. Brickroad is not affiliated with any company named here.
Before you start the package
Is our data actually worth anything?
Yes, but it’s hard to tell how much it’s worth, exactly. As part of the onboarding and packaging process, we’ll backtest and run evaluations for both AI and finance use cases to better position your data in front of our buyers.
Is our dataset too small?
No. Most of the industry only wants established vendors: minimum headcounts, registered data businesses, an existing sales team. Brickroad is built for the first-time seller. A niche feed is a reason to connect, not a reason to stay off-market.
Is selling our data even allowed?
Often yes, and the way to find out is a review, not a guess. Connecting requires representations on provenance, rights, MNPI, and PII, and Brickroad reviews your source and sample before anything enters the Registry. If something blocks licensing, you learn it before a buyer ever sees the data.
Won’t a buyer just copy it from a sample?
You control what goes in the information package. Buyers diligence documented evidence such as coverage, provenance, and evaluation results before they touch data, and access runs through the license. The point of the package is to sell documented utility without handing over the feed.
Do we have to sell ownership or go exclusive?
No. Brickroad does not buy your data, and we are not owned by anyone who does. You license it on your terms, with your brand on the offering. Exclusivity is your choice, never a requirement.
Do we already need ticker mapping?
No. If the data is not already mapped to ticker, ISIN, SEDOL, or FIGI, Brickroad can map it where necessary so buyers can join you to their universe.
Are there fees to connect?
There is no fee to build an information package or submit it for review. Enhancement work such as backtesting is scoped after you are in review, not charged up front to start.
How do we get paid?
Your offering, your license terms. When a buyer licenses your data, proceeds route to you. The split is set in the license you approve, per offering and in writing, not by who else is on the platform.
When are we live?
After Brickroad reviews your package and sample. You receive a ZIP of the offering when you submit, and an email when review starts. Going live on the Registry follows a clean review, not the moment you hit submit.
Get license-ready. We'll connect the buyers.
Start the information package. If you would rather talk first, book time with the team.