Sell my podcast for AI training

Long-form conversational speech is one of the scarcer, more valuable audio types for AI, because it is natural, multi-speaker, and not already scripted. Value scales with hours, audio quality, speaker consent, and whether transcripts exist.

How licensing works

You license, you don’t sell — you keep the feed and the ownership. fiund clears the rights, exclusively represents the submitted archive for AI licensing, closes ordinary deals, and pays you per licence.

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, counted honestly — episode count, total runtime, and date range, back catalogue included.
• Consent records — guest releases and co-host agreements, or a clear picture of what’s missing.
• Speaker metadata — how many voices, who speaks when, languages and accents.
• Transcripts — even rough ones raise value; time-aligned ones raise it further.
• Original audio — the masters you edited from, not the compressed MP3 in the feed.
• A clean ownership story — you own the show, and the paperwork shows it.

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 archive: episodes, total hours, date range, and where the files actually live.
• Find your masters and export originals — not lossy re-encodes pulled back off the feed.
• Gather guest consents. Episodes without releases aren’t dead; they need papering, and fiund runs that outreach with you.
• Collect any transcripts you have and note which episodes they cover.
• Flag sensitive material: full names, health details, off-record segments, anything you promised not to publish.
• List music beds, intro tracks, and sponsor reads — third-party music usually sits outside the training material.

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 archive non-exclusively to multiple AI buyers. You keep the feed, audience, ownership, and all ordinary publishing rights.
• Buyer-exclusive, defined scope. If one buyer wants to lock other AI buyers out, that requires a separate contributor addendum defining the content, scope, term, and additional payment.
• Subset first. You don’t have to license everything. Starting with the episodes that already have consent on file is a clean way in; the rest can follow once papered.
• What fiund negotiates. Scope of use, term and renewal, delivery, and which episodes fit. Rates are set per deal; ordinary deals do not require another contributor signature.

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 tell us what you have — hours, formats, consent status. You get an honest read on whether there’s a market for it.
2. Rights check. We confirm you can grant training rights and flag gaps: guest releases, music beds, network or hosting agreements.
3. Buyer match. Your archive goes in front of vetted buyers whose use fits the contributor agreement and documented rights.
4. Licence. fiund negotiates and closes the Buyer Licence under the standing authority in your contributor agreement—no extra signature chase for an ordinary deal.
5. Delivery. The audio is delivered with its documentation attached: the licence, the consent records, the provenance.
6. Payout. You receive your contributor share and a transaction record. Ownership stays with you, so the archive can earn again.

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.