Is Goldmined.ai legit? The ads, the claims and the gaps

The site asks for at least 20 active desk-based staff; the ads say 30+.

Two calculators on the site disagree: the homepage one returns $200K to $3.6M, the check page tops out at $2.4M, and both are marked illustrative. One ad mentions an unnamed owner earning $290K from a decade of records, with nothing to back it up.

Promises on the site: de-identification happens before data leaves processing, buyers see only redacted samples and counts before a deal, buyers get a licensed copy, no sale goes ahead without your sign-off, and you can pull out before a sale. Payment timing is left to the agreement, and the site says a listing does not guarantee a sale.

With no contract, terms page or privacy policy published, none of that can be checked.

Goldmined.ai publishes no referral program.

Goldmined.ai presents itself as a licensing service: it values the records a company already holds, strips out personal details, packages them and lists them for AI labs to buy. The site names no legal entity, team or investor. Its footer reads "Goldmined, New York", and the domain is registered through a privacy service in Sheridan, Wyoming.

1. 1

   Show what you have

   List your systems with rough record counts and a few screenshots. No data leaves at this stage.

2. 2

   Get a valuation

   Goldmined says it assesses each source and gives a likely value before you commit.

3. 3

   Cleaning and packaging

   Personal details are replaced with placeholders and the data is packaged for buyers.

4. 4

   Approve the listing

   You review exactly what will be offered before it goes to market.

5. 5

   Sale and payment

   When a lab buys the listing, the site says you are paid within 30 days.

Until it names the company you would contract with and a lab that has bought through it, we would get offers elsewhere first. Ask for the legal entity, its state of registration and one reference you can call.

We run the same checks on every buyer we rank. They take an afternoon and they protect the one thing you cannot take back: the copy of your records.

• Find the legal entity. A registered company name, an address and at least one named person. A Facebook form alone is not enough.
• Get the offer and the contract in writing before any export. A sample agreement tells you more than a sales call.
• Ask who strips personal data, how, and when. You should approve the method and see a sample before anything leaves your systems.
• Ask where the data goes. Which AI companies receive it, whether you are told, and whether it can be resold.
• Ask how everyone is paid. By you, by the buyer, or out of your deal. Referral fees are normal; hidden ones are not.
• Get a second quote. Terms from at least one other buyer is the fastest way to know if an offer is fair.