Can a company sell its SOPs to an AI company?

It can license procedures it owns, and the tools they were written in mostly agree they are the customer's: 12 of the 15 platforms on our board say so. Qualio says the customer owns and will continue to own its data, and Whale says it does not claim ownership of your content.

Do SOP tools train AI on the procedures we write?

Most that answer say no. Whale, Waybook, Guidde, ZenQMS and Process Street each state they do not train on customer content, and MasterControl trains only with a specific opt-in. Scribe's terms are the exception: the licence you grant it covers training, fine-tuning and validating machine learning models.

Which platforms keep anonymised copies of what we write?

5 of the 15 we read. Tango takes a perpetual licence to anonymised customer data for any purpose, Scribe's licence lets it de-identify your content and use and disclose the de-identified data, and ScreenSteps may use aggregated or deidentified data derived from your content. SimplerQMS goes the other way and says it will not use stored content for its own use.

How long do we have to export our SOPs after cancelling?

Whale lets you export for 30 days after the end in CSV, JSON or PDF, Tallyfy gives a 30-day export window, Qualio grants up to thirty days of access if you ask in writing before termination, and Trainual makes one export of written content, without media, on a request within 30 days.

Which procedures was the company required to write down?

Drug makers need written production and process control procedures, sites handling highly hazardous chemicals need written operating procedures, and US food facilities need a written food safety plan. In the UK an employer with five or more employees must record its health and safety arrangements.

Who takes SOPs for AI training?

micro1 names SOPs, reconciliations and reporting workflows, and its data partnerships page looks for established companies with 30+ full-time employees. Nyne asks for three or more years of real operational workflows, and Troveo names the records behind tickets, workflows and approvals.

Procedures carrying a client's confidential method, staff records and customer contact lists. Buyers on our board want the how of the work with people removed: Grepped strips customer names and contact details before anything leaves processing.

Procedures, work instructions and checklists

Sell SOPs to AI? Check what the software you wrote them in keeps

A company's SOPs record how the work is really done, which is what AI buyers now pay for, and most were written inside a documentation or quality tool with its own contract. We read 22 documents from 15 of those tools, newest on 2026-10-28: 5 of them keep a right to use customer data once it is anonymised or aggregated.

Source: Sop software data terms: every row, with its source

Term sheet

Sop software data terms

Read 2026-10-28

Term	What they say	How many
Vendors whose terms reserve aggregated or anonymised use	5 of 15 vendors
Who owns the business's data	the business	12 of 15 vendors, 3 not stated
Training AI on the business's data	will not train	6 of 15 vendors, 8 not stated
Export at exit	a number of days	4 of 15 vendors, 9 not stated

3 steps

Describe the procedures your company has written

Your procedures

What are most of the procedures?

Operating SOPs for the day-to-day work Step-by-step work instructions with screenshots or video Controlled procedures under a quality system Recurring checklists and runbooks

Where are they written and kept?

A person reads every SOP enquiry
No SOP or quality platform on the board learns that you wrote
We never ask for the procedures themselves in the form

The process

Tell us what kind of procedures you hold, the tool they live in and whether the company is trading, closing or being sold.
We set that tool's clauses beside the rules that made your sector write the procedures in the first place.
You hear back with the route that suits the company: licensing the procedures while it trades, a sale of the records by the directors while no liquidator or administrator has been appointed and no winding-up petition has been presented, or by the office-holder or with the court's order after that, or a route agreed with the adviser who sent you.

No SOP platform, quality system or buyer pays to be listed here, and nothing on the site is an affiliate link. Every row is how we read the platform's published wording; for your own contract, ask a lawyer. How we are paid: if a company licenses or sells its procedures to a buyer we introduced, it pays us 12.5% of the deal, subject to a minimum fee, where we are its exclusive agent, or 10%, also subject to a minimum, where its data goes into a bundle or the pool, agreed in writing first; any fee a buyer pays us is credited back to the company.

SOP and quality platform terms on your procedures, by platform

Last updated 2026-10-28

Each row is one SOP, work-instruction or quality-management platform, every answer standing on a sentence of the document linked beside it. Not stated means the documents we read leave the question open.

Each vendor's own published terms were read through estate-fetch and stored whole (sha256 on every row). For every document, four questions were answered from the vendor's own words: who owns the business's data, vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use, training AI on the business's data, export at exit. Every stated answer carries the sentence it rests on, checked against the stored text; 'not stated' means the document read does not address the question. A vendor with several documents reads 'varies' where they disagree. 15 vendors, 22 documents.

SOP and quality platform terms on your procedures, by platform
SOP or quality platform	Who owns the procedures	Keeps an anonymised or aggregated use	Trains AI on your procedures	Source
Dozuki	not stated	not stated	not stated	Terms and Conditions
Greenlight Guru	not stated	reserved	not stated	Terms of Service
Guidde	the business	not stated	will not train	Subscription Agreement
MasterControl	the business	not stated	will not train	SaaS Terms
Process Street	the business	not stated	will not train	Terms of Service
Qualio	the business	not stated	not stated	Terms of Service
ScreenSteps	not stated	reserved	not stated	Terms of Service
Scribe	the business	reserved	may train	Terms of Service
SimplerQMS	the business	excluded	not stated	Terms and Conditions
Tallyfy	the business	not stated	not stated	Legal terms
Tango	the business	reserved	not stated	Terms
Trainual	the business	not stated	not stated	Terms of Service
Waybook	the business	not stated	will not train	Terms of Service
Whale	the business	reserved	will not train	Terms and Conditions
ZenQMS	the business	not stated	will not train	Terms of Service

5 of 15 SOP and quality platforms whose terms we read keep an anonymised or aggregated use of customer data, newest read 2026-10-28. (Sop software data terms: every row, with its source)

Cite this page

“SOP and quality platform terms on your procedures, by platform”, Sell SOPs to AI, https://sellsopstoai.com/ (updated 2026-10-28). Each vendor's own published terms were read through estate-fetch and stored whole (sha256 on every row). For every document, four questions were answered from the vendor's own words: who owns the business's data, vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use, training AI on the business's data, export at exit. Every stated answer carries the sentence it rests on, checked against the stored text; 'not stated' means the document read does not address the question. A vendor with several documents reads 'varies' where they disagree. 15 vendors, 22 documents.

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Each one cites where its numbers come from.

The questions we get

Can a company sell its SOPs to an AI company?: It can license procedures it owns, and the tools they were written in mostly agree they are the customer's: 12 of the 15 platforms on our board say so. Qualio says the customer owns and will continue to own its data, and Whale says it does not claim ownership of your content.(Sop software data terms: every row, with its source)
Do SOP tools train AI on the procedures we write?: Most that answer say no. Whale, Waybook, Guidde, ZenQMS and Process Street each state they do not train on customer content, and MasterControl trains only with a specific opt-in. Scribe's terms are the exception: the licence you grant it covers training, fine-tuning and validating machine learning models.(Sop software data terms: every row, with its source)
Which platforms keep anonymised copies of what we write?: 5 of the 15 we read. Tango takes a perpetual licence to anonymised customer data for any purpose, Scribe's licence lets it de-identify your content and use and disclose the de-identified data, and ScreenSteps may use aggregated or deidentified data derived from your content. SimplerQMS goes the other way and says it will not use stored content for its own use.(Sop software data terms: every row, with its source)
How long do we have to export our SOPs after cancelling?: Whale lets you export for 30 days after the end in CSV, JSON or PDF, Tallyfy gives a 30-day export window, Qualio grants up to thirty days of access if you ask in writing before termination, and Trainual makes one export of written content, without media, on a request within 30 days.(Sop software data terms: every row, with its source)
Which procedures was the company required to write down?: Drug makers need written production and process control procedures, sites handling highly hazardous chemicals need written operating procedures, and US food facilities need a written food safety plan. In the UK an employer with five or more employees must record its health and safety arrangements.(Sop software data terms: every row, with its source)
Who takes SOPs for AI training?: micro1 names SOPs, reconciliations and reporting workflows, and its data partnerships page looks for established companies with 30+ full-time employees. Nyne asks for three or more years of real operational workflows, and Troveo names the records behind tickets, workflows and approvals.(Sop software data terms: every row, with its source)
What does not sell?: Procedures carrying a client's confidential method, staff records and customer contact lists. Buyers on our board want the how of the work with people removed: Grepped strips customer names and contact details before anything leaves processing.(Sop software data terms: every row, with its source)

Sources

This site's own datasets, every figure quoted from its source and dated:

Buyers that license written procedures and manuals for AI: Of the 12 buyers we read, 7 list procedures, manuals or internal documents in what they want, as read 27 October 2026.
Sop software data terms: 5 of 15 sop software vendors whose terms we read reserve the right to use their customers' data in aggregated or anonymised form, read 28 October 2026.
Rules that require a procedure in writing: 12 US and UK rules that require a company to write a procedure down, each quoted from the regulation or the regulator page, read 28 October 2026.

The question this page is here to answer

Who takes a company's procedures, workflows and operating records for AI training, what does each name, and through what door does an owner reach it?

5 of the 15 SOP and quality platforms we read keep some use of customer data. Tell us where your procedures live and how the company stands, and a person replies.

Answered by Sell SOPs to AI, which reads every enquiry this page takes.

Ask about my SOPs

Sell SOPs to AI? Check what the software you wrote them in keeps

Sop software data terms

The process

SOP and quality platform terms on your procedures, by platform

Cite this page

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The questions we get

Sources

Who takes a company's procedures, workflows and operating records for AI training, what does each name, and through what door does an owner reach it?