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title: "Licensing company email data for AI training | QuoteMyData"
description: "What company email AI buyers want, what must be excluded (clients, NDAs, personal data), and how de-identified email archives are priced and transferred."
canonical: https://quotemydata.com/data/email
last_modified: 2026-10-26
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# Business email

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How work actually flows between people and companies. Email shows multi-step business processes end to end: quotes, approvals, follow-ups and negotiations. That structure is valuable for training agents that act on a user’s behalf.

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## Records to assess

- Internal team email
- Vendor and supplier threads
- Scheduling and coordination
- Templates and canned replies

## Context to describe to buyers

- Volume and years of history
- Process-heavy roles such as ops, procurement and sales
- Clean separation from client confidential material

## What stays out

- Client communications covered by confidentiality
- Anything under NDA
- Personal accounts and personal topics

## How to prepare

1. Identify mailboxes in scope
2. Flag client domains for exclusion
3. Confirm retention policies and legal holds

## Worked example: A 70-person engineering firm (fictional)

Cobalt Structural licenses internal and vendor email from its operations and procurement mailboxes, 2017 to 2025. Every thread with a client domain is filtered out before export, and the firm keeps the right to review a sample after [de-identification](https://quotemydata.com/glossary#de-identification).

## When to pause the assessment

- Your email is mostly client correspondence under confidentiality terms.
- Mailboxes are under legal hold or subject to regulator retention rules.
- You cannot separate personal mail from business mail.

## Related reading

Data type

### [Slack and Teams history](https://quotemydata.com/data/slack-and-teams)

Years of real conversations about real work.

Guide

### [Client exclusions](https://quotemydata.com/guides/excluding-client-data-from-licensing)

Separate company-owned operations from client files, shared channels and confidential attachments before evaluating a data license.

Guide

### [Is it legal to sell your company’s data for AI training](https://quotemydata.com/guides/what-data-can-you-legally-license)

What makes licensing company Slack, email and tickets to AI legal or risky in 2026: NDAs, Slack API terms, CCPA “sale” rules, FTC, GDPR and employee notices.

Data type

### [CRM activity](https://quotemydata.com/data/crm-activity)

Sales and account work, step by step.

Data market profile

### [Polyshares](https://quotemydata.com/buyers/polyshares)

Licenses company communications and records, valuing depth of history over headcount.

Guide

### [Supplier onboarding](https://quotemydata.com/guides/licensing-supplier-onboarding-data)

Map supplier requests, review steps and approvals into a scoped data package. Separate workflow reasoning from bank details and confidential vendor files.

## Business email: common questions

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### Can I license emails with my clients?

Usually not. Client communications are often covered by contracts, NDAs or professional rules. Internal and vendor email is the safer core of a dataset.

## Explore what your company’s data could be worth.

Describe your systems and history to see a planning estimate. Request a buyer-fit assessment when you are ready. Free for your company, with no obligation.

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