Slack chats and internal data from failed startups are finding a second life in AI training

Internal Slack logs, emails, documents, and source code from failed startups are becoming a new source of AI training data.

AI developers are buying these materials to build more capable agentic systems.

Companies like SimpleClosure help scrub personal information and package the data for licensing.

The trend opens a new market for shutdown data, while raising major privacy and oversight concerns about reused workplace communications.