Announcing Partnerships for Business Data

High quality data that pushes the frontier of model capabilities is the cornerstone of AfterQuery’s work as an applied research lab. Teaching machines how to think involves turning human expertise into training data, which remains a finite resource. Pre-training for frontier models already exhausts the records of the public internet, and the search for readily available data that captures real world work ushers in the era of data licensing. Research remains the foundation of our approach to push model capabilities, and within certain use cases, the true unlock has to come from real world data.

Real world data is valuable because of its messiness. It captures the judgment people use as they work with each other across a variety of different systems. The premise is simple; for models to efficiently develop the skills behind real yet obscure workflows and further expand economically valuable work, they need to train on actual business data.

Today, we’re excited to announce AfterQuery’s expansion into Data Partnerships. We look forward to partnering with business owners to help realize the value of their underlying data while maintaining our consistent standards of research, trust, and privacy.

The demand for business data has exploded over the past few months, but AfterQuery is not new to the space. We’ve already processed thousands of real world data assets, including codebases, financial models, and CAD designs from individuals, small businesses, and enterprises.

We can license data at scale, but scale has never been our first priority. Protecting the sensitive information within that data is our baseline, and we never trade privacy for speed or delivery. Our anonymized process ensures that the identities of employees, customers, and contractors are never leaked or directly utilized in AI training. Beyond immediate Personally Identifiable Information (PII), we are also careful to anonymize pseudo-identifiers such as a person’s location, occupation, or title, as these can be combined to still re-identify someone.

The table stakes of trust and safety are only the starting point. We are not a data marketplace built around volume. The value comes from both the raw data you license and what we build on top of it. Working closely with our Research and Engineering teams, we’ve found that Reinforcement Learning (RL) environments are the right manifestation for real world data. Our RL team collaborates with your business to identify the most meaningful workflows within the data; our North Star is delivering training data that genuinely improves models for our customers, and that is only possible through a true partnership between AfterQuery and your business.

If you’re a business owner who is curious, or hesitant, about licensing your data, we would love to hear from you!

We are excited to partner and, together, realize the impact your data can have.