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Media & games · Anywhere; multilingual content welcome · 20–500 employees

Publisher or Education Company

License long-form content you hold the rights to: journals, textbooks, courses and video.

  • You earn up to

    $22,200

  • Company earns

    $60K–$222K

    Depends on catalog size and rights

Houston scopes the data, signs an NDA and runs the export, removing or protecting personal information.

About

We're looking for publishers and course creators who own the training rights to substantial long-form content. The most valuable is recent material that isn't open access, across science, medicine, law, finance and the humanities, along with educational video and lecture recordings.

Location
Anywhere; multilingual content welcome
Company size
20–500 employees
Track record
An established catalog
Kinds of companies
Academic and professional publishers, textbook and courseware companies, e-learning platforms, medical education, magazines and literary publishers

Is it a fit?

What we're looking for

  • Content the company holds the rights to license for AI training
  • Long-form text, courses or video, not short articles alone
  • Hundreds of titles or hours

Not a fit

  • Content distributed under someone else's license
  • Content that is already open access

Who knows companies like this

Editors, rights and licensing managers, and course creators.

Refer one

What the license covers

  • Full texts
  • Course material
  • Video with transcripts

Nice to have, adds to what the company earns

  • Recent research papers that aren't open access
  • STEM textbooks and lecture recordings
  • Medical and science educational video with transcripts
  • Fiction, essays and teaching writing
  • Content in several languages

Tools we work with

  • CMS
  • LMS
  • XML / EPUB pipelines

Questions we'll ask the company

If the company can answer these, it is likely a good referral.

  1. What do you hold the training rights to?
  2. How many titles, courses or hours?
  3. Which subjects and languages?
  4. Is any of it already licensed for AI training?

How referrals work

  1. 1

    Find a fit

    Pick an open request and think of a company that matches.

  2. 2

    Refer them

    Share the company and a few details about it, in about a minute.

  3. 3

    We do the work

    We scope their data, agree a license and handle the export.

  4. 4

    You get paid

    Up to $22,200 per company, after their first delivery.

On this request

Up to $22,200

  • 10% of what we agree to pay the company
  • Confirmed when the company signs its data license
  • Paid after their first delivery
Read all the terms

Refer a company for this request.

Share the company and a few details. We handle the outreach.

After you refer

  1. Submitted

    We have your referral and are reviewing it.

  2. In progress

    We're working with them. We'll let you know how it lands.

  3. Reward confirmed

    Your reward is confirmed and on its way.

  4. Reward paid

    Your reward has been paid out.

We email you as your referral moves, from review to payout.

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The company