Procurement and AP Software Data for AI Training: What Can Be Licensed
By Andrew Smart, founder of MON$TER · About
If your company runs procurement, accounts-payable (AP) or spend-management software, you likely hold something AI and institutional buyers actively look for: a long, real record of how businesses buy, approve and pay for things over time.
What buyers look for
- Spending trends over time: how much businesses spend in a category and how that shifts month to month
- Software and vendor spend: which kinds of tools and services companies pay for, renew or cancel
- Process patterns: how invoices and purchase orders move through approval, and where they get stuck
- History: several years of records, so trends and seasons can be seen clearly
Buyers want patterns across many businesses, not any one customer's books.
What stays out
- Personal information about your customers' employees, approvers or contacts. See what counts as PII.
- Anything that identifies your customers, unless your contracts clearly allow otherwise. See anonymization vs. pseudonymization.
- Any data your customer agreements or terms of service do not let you use this way.
This is general information, not legal advice. Have your attorney review your agreements before licensing anything.
How it fits with other software data
Spend-management platforms are a focused kind of SaaS business. The bigger picture is in can a SaaS company sell its data to AI? and fintech and payments data for AI training. Buyers usually ask for a data dictionary early.
What it can be worth
Published MON$TER ranges: an exclusive one-time sale typically lands at $50K-$1M, and a non-exclusive recurring license typically runs $300K-$3M per year. No amount is guaranteed and not every company qualifies. Buyers see a description first, never your raw data. Get a free valuation at /estimate/ or start at Business Data.