Briggs AnalyticsCan you sell your company's old emails? How email archives get licensed
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Who buys email
- Scale AI: Gmail, Outlook and calendar threads, anonymized inside your systems.
- Mode: email and calendar, plus documents and chat.
- Polyshares: email alongside Slack, Drive and CRM.
- Grepped: Gmail and Outlook messages.
Email alone is worth less than email with the chat, files and CRM records that go with it, because buyers pay for the whole trail.
What about customer emails?
Names, addresses, phone numbers and account numbers are removed or swapped before an AI company sees anything, and some records are left out entirely. In the Spirit sale, passenger records were excluded. Data you hold for your own clients is usually excluded too (Polyshares says so on its page). Will my customers' information be exposed?
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See what my data is worth →Keep old mailboxes
Before you delete a former employee's account, check what goes with it. Years of email from people who left are part of the history buyers pay for. If you're shutting down, buyers pay the most while the accounts are still live. Closing a company?
How it works
- Get an estimate and compare buyers.
- Agree which mailboxes and years are in, and what's excluded.
- Your admin approves the export, the buyer de-identifies it, you get paid.
Briggs Analytics is independent. Some buyers named on this page may pay Briggs Analytics a referral fee, and owners never pay us anything. Every figure comes from the buyer's own page or the source linked next to it, checked October 22, 2026. Buyers change their terms often, so confirm on their page before you sign. Disclosures
In short
- You license a de-identified copy of company email and keep the originals.
- Google bid $10M for Spirit Airlines records including about 100 million emails.
- Customer details are removed and some records are excluded entirely.
- Don't delete old mailboxes before you check what they're worth.
Questions owners ask.
Is it legal to sell company emails?
Companies license de-identified copies under written agreements, with personal details removed. Check your contracts and talk to your lawyer. Briggs Analytics is not a law firm.
Who buys company email?
Scale AI, Mode, Polyshares and Grepped all list email in what they buy.
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