Vet AI Companies Before You Deal With Them
Structured deal-term tracking and vendor vetting for archives navigating AI Tech Co requests — built in coordination with the Trust in Archives Initiative.
The problem
Archives increasingly field requests from AI companies seeking training data, alongside traditional production company requests. There is no structured way to vet an AI company before agreeing to a deal, and no shared reference point for what similar deals elsewhere have looked like. Archives are negotiating individually against sophisticated, well-resourced counterparties, with no comparative data and no leverage.
What RightsPort provides
AI company vetting registry
Security assessment status, prior track record, and notes contributed by other archives — before you agree to anything.
Deal-term tracking
Compensation model, payment timing, what happens if a counterparty becomes insolvent, who funded any digitization work and what that means for your negotiating leverage.
Provenance and attestation capture
For archival material — including material that predates any existing content-authenticity standard and cannot be retroactively marked by it.
Your data stays yours
RightsPort never resells archive data or deal intelligence to AI companies. AI companies get read-only discovery of what’s published — nothing more.
Who it's for
Small and mid-sized archives who face the same AI Tech Co requests as major libraries, without the same internal legal and negotiating resources.
Built in coordination with the Trust in Archives Initiative
RightsPort for Archives is being developed alongside TAI to ensure the vetting framework and deal-term intelligence reflects real archive practice, not assumptions about it.
Interested in RightsPort for Archives?
Get in touch and we'll walk you through how it works for your archive.