Sell interview recordings for AI

Interviews are high-value conversational speech with clear turn-taking — useful for ASR, diarization, and voice agents.

How licensing works

Consent from interviewees is handled up front; you keep ownership while fiund exclusively represents the submitted sessions for AI licensing.

The full pipeline — briefs, rights clearing, delivery — is on the how it works page. Below is what it looks like from the owner's side.

What buyers look for

Licensing your archive shouldn't require guessing what a buyer wants. The diligence questions are consistent, and every item you can already answer strengthens your position:

• Hours and session counts — how much speech, across how many distinct speakers.
• Clean turn-taking — two or more voices in natural alternation is exactly what ASR and diarization teams want.
• Interviewee consent — releases on file, mapped to the sessions they cover.
• Speaker metadata — languages, accents, and (where consented) demographics; who speaks on which channel.
• Transcripts — verbatim ones raise value most, but even summaries help.
• Original audio — uncompressed or high-bitrate session files, not conference-call exports.

How to prepare your archive

None of this has to be finished before you get in touch. But each step below shortens the rights check and sharpens the quote:

• Inventory the sessions: count, total hours, languages, and recording conditions.
• Export originals — WAV or the best files you hold, not lossy re-encodes.
• Gather interviewee releases and note which sessions each one covers.
• Compile the speaker metadata you already have. Don’t guess at what you don’t.
• Flag PII and off-record segments — names, addresses, anything shared in confidence — so they can be redacted or excluded.

Deal shapes

There is no standard rate card. Rates are set per deal, and fiund negotiates the Buyer Licence under the standing contributor agreement. Common shapes include:

• Standard buyer licence. fiund can grant training rights to multiple buyers. You keep the recordings and all uses outside AI licensing.
• Consented subset. Sessions with releases on file go first. The rest can follow if and when consent lands — no all-or-nothing.
• Buyer-exclusive, defined scope. Priced for what it takes away and available only through a separate contributor addendum defining scope, term, and additional payment.
• What fiund negotiates. Scope of use, term, delivery, and redaction requirements. Rates are set per deal without repeated contributor approvals.

The stages of a deal

Every licence moves through the same stages without requiring another contributor approval for the ordinary transaction. How quickly depends on the state of your paperwork:

1. Review. You describe the collection — hours, speakers, consent status — and get an honest read on demand for it.
2. Rights check. We review your releases against the intended licence and flag sessions where consent is missing or too narrow.
3. Buyer match. The collection goes in front of vetted buyers whose use fits the contributor agreement and consent records.
4. Licence. fiund negotiates and closes the Buyer Licence under the standing contributor agreement.
5. Delivery. Audio is delivered with documentation attached: licence, consent records, speaker metadata, provenance.
6. Payout. You’re paid per the licence terms. The recordings stay yours.

What you keep

• Ownership — you license, you don't sell.
• Simplicity — fiund handles ordinary AI-licensing deals without asking you for another signature each time.
• Control — you can withdraw content from future licensing, and buyer-specific exclusivity still requires a separate addendum. See how payouts work.