Data licensing in Canada and Australia

Mode's minimums

Mode works only with companies in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

Legal

Mode publishes its own staff minimums and ranges on its site.

Accounting, finance and medical

Mode publishes its own staff minimums and ranges on its site.

All other businesses

Mode publishes its own staff minimums and ranges on its site.

Also required

• 3+ years with the records still in their systems
• 5+ systems (email, chat, file storage, CRM, plus one more)
• The company owns the records.

Not a fit for Mode

• Staffing agencies
• Insurance
• Title and escrow
• Single datasets or one-system exports

Source: Mode affiliate FAQ, October 2026

Mode's privacy rules

• The intake asks only for descriptions and rough numbers; no logins, raw data, recordings or confidential documents before signing.
• Nothing is uploaded before signing, and only the listed systems.
• The company uploads through Mode's secure upload; no passwords are shared.
• Encrypted in transit and at rest; need-to-know access.
• Sensitive material is removed and personal data transformed before the AI customer sees it; the company can audit a sample.
• Health records, payment card data and children's data are excluded.
• The raw upload is deleted within 120 days.
• Mode does not publicly name the company without written consent; it may share name, industry and a data description with its AI customer under confidentiality.
• The company keeps ownership of its originals.

Your own privacy obligations still apply: in Canada, federal and provincial privacy law; in Australia, the Privacy Act 1988. Check with your own adviser before signing.

Source: Mode affiliate FAQ, October 2026

Exclusive licence

• Mode licenses to its AI customer on an exclusive basis.
• The company agrees not to sell or license the same data for external AI training for 24 months.
• The AI customer is bound by confidentiality and barred from trying to identify anyone.
• Choosing Mode means the same data can't go to micro1 for AI training for 24 months, so pick one partner per dataset.

Source: Mode affiliate FAQ, October 2026

Where micro1 fits

micro1 takes established companies with 30 or more full-time staff. It says the US comes first, then other Western markets, and that demand is strongest in the US, UK and Canada.

Canada and Australia are both in micro1's published ten-country list for closed companies. Operating-company coverage is United States first, then other Western markets.

Source: micro1's company portal, seen 14 November 2026.