Mode
Licenses a de-identified copy of a company's operating records for $100K–$5M, with no broker fee.
Published terms · verified 2026-10-15
- Pays companies
- $100K–$5M (indicative)
- Licence type
- Not published
- Exclusivity
- Negotiable
- Who de-identifies
- The buyer
- Payment timing
- Written agreement sets the amount and payment schedule
- Time to offer
- Fixed offer after a review; about 3 months from first call to payment
- Acceptance window
- Not published
- Minimum size
- 20+ desk staff
- Minimum years
- Not published
- Accepts
- Operating
- Regions
- US, UK, EU, CA, AU, OTHER
- Data they want
- Email, Chat (Slack/Teams), Docs, CRM, Finance, Other
- How you reach them
- We introduce you
Mode de-identifies in a secure workspace; you sign in to approved systems yourself and share no passwords.
About
Mode (mode.inc, not Mode Analytics) pays companies and nonprofits for a de-identified copy of agreed operating records: email and calendar, documents, chat, calls and transcripts, CRM, and billing and operations data, across roughly 20 named tools and more. The company keeps its originals. Its strongest fit is a business with 20+ full-time US office staff, though accounting firms with 10+ and law firms with 6+ people also qualify. A public calculator estimates value from desk and non-desk headcount, years of data, and team location (US, EU/CA/AU, or other), and a fixed offer follows a review. Mode has also announced a $5B enterprise data monetization initiative and a BizBuyData.com brand.
How the process works
- Describe your company and its systems
- Approve the data scope and Mode's fixed offer
- Sign in to the approved systems yourself (no passwords are shared)
- Mode exports and de-identifies the records
- Payment
Things to know
- The live referral page ($50K+ and a $5K+ second-level reward, marked 'proposed rewards, final terms apply') differs from the Affiliate Referral Agreement v1.0 described by the register (greater of 6% of the deal or $50K for the first five deals; 6% with no minimum for non-US companies; paid within 30 days of Mode's payment; 12-month clawback; referred company must sign a full corpus license within 6 months). Get the governing terms in writing.
- The 20+ employee figure is Mode's stated strongest fit, not a hard gate: accounting firms (10+) and law firms (6+) are also named.
- A secondary claim that Mode deals reach 'up to $200M' comes from a news aggregator and is unverified.
Where sources disagree
Referral reward
- $50K+ per qualifying company, plus $5K+ second-level reward — Mode referral page
- Greater of 6% of the deal or $50K for the first five deals; 12-month clawback — whosellsdata.com buying register (observed 2026-10-14)
What Minewell earns
Mode's live referral page offers $50K+ per qualifying company plus $5K+ for second-level referrals (marked 'proposed rewards, final terms apply'); the register describes an agreement paying the greater of 6% or $50K. We take whichever agreement governs; the fee comes from Mode, not from your offer.
Sources
- Mode company data partnerships
- Mode referral page
- whosellsdata.com buying register (observed 2026-10-14)
- Mode.Inc $5B initiative press release (Yahoo Finance)
Last verified 2026-10-15. Terms change often; confirm on the buyer's site before signing.