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 | Handshake AI | Protege |
|---|---|---|
| Operating records | Published AutoCAD, Figma, Gmail, Drive, NetSuite, Notion, QuickBooks, ServiceTitan and Slack Source ↗ | Published Healthcare, video, audio/speech, spatial/physical and other domains; generic CRM/SOP archives not explicitly enumerated Source ↗ |
| Company eligibility | Published 20+ full-time employees and 3+ years operating. Source ↗ | Published Typically owns outright or controls broad global/all-media rights; quality and opportunity-specific qualification. Source ↗ |
| Seller geography | Published Estimator lists USA/Canada/Europe/Other; not a guaranteed acceptance list. Source ↗ | 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 $100K–$4M+ advertised range; USD context not separately currency-verified. Calculator is indicative, not an offer; period not specified. 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 | 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. |
| Timeline & payment trigger | Provider claim No numerical end-to-end payout timeline verified. Source ↗ | Provider claim Active opportunities often fulfilled under a month; fulfillment is not seller payment timing. Source ↗ |
| Preparation & seller effort | Published Intake → scoping call → existing data transfer → cleaning → confidential lab delivery. Source ↗ | Published Discovery → revenue-share agreement → curate/QA/mask → qualified deal → revenue-share payment. Source ↗ |
| Ownership & permitted use | Unknown Not published / not established Not established in inspected sources. Ask for the actual agreement; unknown does not mean free, unrestricted or accepted. | Published Retains ownership; limited defined AI training/fine-tuning/evaluation/benchmarking rights; no public exhibition/redistribution/entertainment use. Source ↗ |
| Privacy & approval | Provider claim Training/evaluation only, not public. Removes direct/indirect identifiers but acknowledges re-identification risk; seller must ensure lawful transfer. 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 | 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. |
| HQ / published contact | Published Mailing address: San Francisco, CA, US; not independently verified operational HQ. 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. Handshake AI lists AutoCAD, Figma, Gmail, Drive, NetSuite, Notion, QuickBooks, ServiceTitan and Slack. Do not extrapolate specialist case revenue to a small operating business.
For your existing records, start with category fit: Handshake AI lists AutoCAD, Figma, Gmail, Drive, NetSuite, Notion, QuickBooks, ServiceTitan and Slack; 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.
Handshake AI: No numerical end-to-end payout timeline verified. 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.
Handshake AI: 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.