Sell mocap data for AI

Consented, rig-ready motion capture is scarce and directly useful for avatar animation and robotics. Performer consent is the differentiator that makes it licensable.

How licensing works

fiund documents performer consent and licenses your library per use, ownership retained.

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:

• Take counts and capture time — how much motion, across how many performers.
• Performer consent on file — the differentiator that makes mocap licensable at all.
• Rig and skeleton specs — marker sets, joint counts, frame rates, capture setup.
• Standard formats — BVH, FBX, or C3D exports alongside your native files.
• Movement metadata — what each take contains, tagged well enough to search.
• Processing status — raw, solved, or cleaned, stated honestly per take.

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 library: take counts, total capture time, performers, movement categories.
• Export to standard interchange formats where you can, and keep the native files.
• Gather performer agreements and note what each one actually granted.
• Document the rig: skeleton, marker set, frame rate, and capture conditions.
• Flag takes that include face or voice capture — identifiable likeness needs separate consent.

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 license the active library to multiple AI buyers; you keep it and keep using it in production.
• Category subset. Locomotion only, combat only, the takes with full consent — mocap libraries slice cleanly, and a subset is a clean way in.
• Buyer-exclusive, defined scope. A request to lock other AI buyers out requires a separate contributor addendum with scope, term, and additional payment.
• What fiund negotiates. Scope of use, term, and whether raw takes, solved data, or both are delivered. Rates are set per deal.

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 library — takes, rigs, consent status — and get an honest read on demand for it.
2. Rights check. We review performer agreements. Where AI training wasn’t in the original grant, consent is sought before those takes go anywhere.
3. Buyer match. The library goes in front of vetted buyers whose use fits the contributor agreement and performer consents.
4. Licence. fiund negotiates and closes the Buyer Licence under the standing contributor agreement.
5. Delivery. Data is delivered in the agreed formats with documentation attached: licence, performer consents, rig specs, provenance.
6. Payout. You’re paid per the licence terms. The library stays 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.