Direct licensing meets specialist licensing. Neither advertised amounts nor a public seller route establish what your business will receive.
Jump to the terms ledger ↓Research comparison; limited public terms. Pair-level evidence and scenario review is pending. Published fields alone do not meet our indexing threshold. This page is noindex and absent from the sitemap, not a negative verdict.
| Criterion | Appen | Protege |
|---|---|---|
| Operating records | Published SOPs, wikis, approval chains, support/ITSM/CRM, ERP, messaging, BI, contracts, HR/payroll Source ↗ | Published Healthcare, video, audio/speech, spatial/physical and other domains; generic CRM/SOP archives not explicitly enumerated Source ↗ |
| Company eligibility | Published Operating or winding-down companies; no size minimum published. Source ↗ | Published Typically owns outright or controls broad global/all-media rights; quality and opportunity-specific qualification. Source ↗ |
| Seller geography | Unknown Not published / not established Not established in inspected sources. Ask for the actual agreement; unknown does not mean free, unrestricted or accepted. | Unknown Not published / not established Not established in inspected sources. Ask for the actual agreement; unknown does not mean free, unrestricted or accepted. |
| Published compensation | Provider claim Individually quoted by rarity, structure and history. Source ↗ | Provider claim Negotiated revenue share. Gradient Health seven-figure revenue is a provider-hosted specialist case, not an ordinary business rate. Source ↗ |
| Fees & net proceeds | Published No costs, setup fees or deductions. Source ↗ | Unknown Not published / not established Not established in inspected sources. Ask for the actual agreement; unknown does not mean free, unrestricted or accepted. |
| Timeline & payment trigger | Provider claim Payment on acceptance; two-business-day response is not a payout deadline. Source ↗ | Provider claim Active opportunities often fulfilled under a month; fulfillment is not seller payment timing. Source ↗ |
| Preparation & seller effort | Published Register → NDA → written scope → extraction → representative sample sign-off → license. Source ↗ | Published Discovery → revenue-share agreement → curate/QA/mask → qualified deal → revenue-share payment. Source ↗ |
| Ownership & permitted use | Published Retains ownership. Source ↗ | Published Retains ownership; limited defined AI training/fine-tuning/evaluation/benchmarking rights; no public exhibition/redistribution/entertainment use. Source ↗ |
| Privacy & approval | Provider claim Read-only encrypted isolated pipelines; anonymization or synthetic rewrites; buyers/third parties do not see raw data; retention/deletion agreed before extraction. Source ↗ | Provider claim Identifier removal and jurisdiction-specific workflows; optional anonymization/voice modification. Media FAQ is not a universal operating-data contract. Source ↗ |
| Exclusivity | Unknown Not published / not established Not established in inspected sources. Ask for the actual agreement; unknown does not mean free, unrestricted or accepted. | Unknown Not published / not established Not established in inspected sources. Ask for the actual agreement; unknown does not mean free, unrestricted or accepted. |
| Retention & deletion | Published Retention/deletion follow agreed terms; no public exact duration. Source ↗ | Unknown Not published / not established Not established in inspected sources. Ask for the actual agreement; unknown does not mean free, unrestricted or accepted. |
| HQ / published contact | Published Corporate HQ Sydney, Australia; US HQ Kirkland, Washington, according to program page. Source ↗ | Published Published contact: New York, NY, US; not independently verified operational HQ. Source ↗ |
For specialist healthcare or media rights, Protege's published categories and Gradient Health case are more relevant than ordinary CRM exports. Appen lists SOPs, wikis, approval chains, support/ITSM/CRM, ERP, messaging, BI, contracts, HR/payroll. Do not extrapolate specialist case revenue to a small operating business.
For your existing records, start with category fit: Appen lists SOPs, wikis, approval chains, support/ITSM/CRM, ERP, messaging, BI, contracts, HR/payroll; Protege lists Healthcare, video, audio/speech, spatial/physical and other domains; generic CRM/SOP archives not explicitly enumerated. Ask each which subset has active demand before preparing exports.
Appen: Payment on acceptance; two-business-day response is not a payout deadline. Protege: Active opportunities often fulfilled under a month; fulfillment is not seller payment timing. These clocks measure different stages, not equivalent payout deadlines; ask for a written acceptance-to-payment interval.
Both routes need lawful rights to the material. Removing names does not remove confidentiality obligations or re-identification risk. Require sample approval, buyer-use restrictions, precise payment triggers and downstream retention/deletion terms.
Appen: No independently audited operating-business payout established in this research. Provider cases and partnership confirmations do not establish a typical seller outcome.
Protege: Gradient Health seller-hosted announcement corroborates partnership and imaging supply, not revenue. Provider-hosted case claims seven-figure revenue; no independently audited receipt.