We take operational data out of companies that have never commercialized it, prepare it to a common standard, and auction it. A controlled number each quarter, not a catalog of four thousand listings.
Raw operational data, not an insights or analytics product.
The problem we are solving for you
In a catalog of thousands of datasets, every listing is written by the seller, and every one of them describes itself as comprehensive, high quality and unique. There is no way to compare two of them without evaluating both. So buyers stop reading catalogs and buy from people they already know, which is a poor way to find something you have not seen before.
Our answer is to spend the diligence effort before you do. A dataset does not reach you until it can survive the questions you were going to ask anyway.
The gate
If it is on the platform, it has already cleared the following. This is why we run few auctions rather than many.
Getting to a bid
Free. A Master Platform Agreement covers the platform and trial data across every future auction and your affiliates. Doing it now means you are not negotiating master terms against an auction clock later.
A distinct DDQ per auction, with a messaging system that keeps an audit trail and syncs to email. Xferdata or the owning company answers.
The auction runs four months, so you can back-test against your own outcomes before bidding rather than taking the seller's word for the signal.
How the auction works
Starting prices come from the valuation, not from the owner's hopes, and they are set conservatively. Bidding is like for like on a subscription order form. Several buyers work to one deadline, so a dataset reaches a sensible total without any single buyer overpaying.
Who sets the starting prices
Model output is reviewed by a human with domain experience for the relevant buyer type. Those valuations become the auction's starting price.
Questions buyers ask
Direct from companies and through partners, with sponsorship at C-suite level. Owners appoint Xferdata as sole distribution partner and confirm the data has not been commercialized to your buyer group before.
Nothing reaches an auction until personal data has been removed or the right to share it has been verified by our compliance team. If a dataset cannot be made clean, it does not go to auction.
No. Owners want anonymity, which is what makes them willing to monetize at all, and it is normal in corporate licensing. Xferdata is the vendor of record, so you contract with one counterparty rather than with a company that has never been a data vendor.
One master agreement covering every auction, signed once. It sets the terms for IP, confidentiality and compliance on both sides: owners keep ownership and you license, and your backtesting and bidding strategy stay confidential.
You can, and it usually costs you the auction. Master terms take weeks to negotiate and auctions run to a timeline. The agreement is done once and covers everything after it.
Starting prices are set conservatively from an independent valuation. The design gets the owner to a reasonable total across several buyers rather than an extreme price from one.
Xferdata Inc. is US incorporated and has been running auctions since January 2025.
Registration is free and the master agreement is done once. It is the difference between bidding and watching.
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