Centific enterprise data: what UK companies should know

About Centific

Centific Global Solutions is based in Redmond, Washington. It was founded in 2020 and, according to Fortune as cited by GeekWire, began as the US division of Pactera, a China-based IT consulting company. It describes itself as "a global data and AI solutions company", with more than 3,000 employees and the OneForma platform of over 2 million contributors. In August 2026, Chuen Hong Lew, the former chief executive of Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority, became its chief executive (Centific).

What Centific takes

Centific wants to "anonymize and license your operational data for AI training by frontier labs". Its programme page highlights approval chains, exception handling and workflows that span several applications. It connects read-only to "188 supported enterprise applications", and you choose which to include. Its headline promise is: "You license your data. You never hand it over."

Who it accepts

Centific publishes no minimum size or revenue. Its form asks for your company's status, from operating normally to winding down or already closed. For wind-downs, "companies winding down can use a faster process with a dedicated asset-purchase agreement", and may license "their complete operational history". It also warns that "timing can affect what data remains available".

Prices and payment

Centific gives a written estimate after the first call and publishes no rates. It says payment is made "on acceptance rather than submission", and that "most partnerships reach their first accepted contribution within six to ten weeks". After the first delivery, most partners move to a quarterly refresh. Centific pays the costs of extraction, anonymisation and transfer. Employees can be paid separately to annotate their own anonymised records, if you want that.

How it handles your data

• Exclusions in code. The apps and data you leave out are "enforced in the extraction code, not just the agreement".
• Automated anonymisation. "Our pipeline removes personal data while preserving the workflow structure", and no manual reviewer reads your content during extraction and anonymisation.
• Sample first. You review an anonymised sample pack before anything moves forward.
• NDA first. A mutual NDA comes before anything else.

The page does not publish deletion or retention terms.

What a UK company should check

1. Licence or sale. For wind-downs, Centific uses an asset purchase agreement, which can mean selling the records rather than licensing them. Check which it is, and what you are giving up.
2. Timing. Six to ten weeks to the first accepted contribution is slower than some buyers. Plan around it if accounts are about to close.
3. Acceptance. What counts as acceptance, and what happens to rejected data.
4. Deletion. Not published. Get it in writing.
5. Transfers and law. How personal data leaves the UK, and which country's law applies.

How Centific compares

Centific's read-only connection to so many applications suits companies with records spread across many systems. Its six to ten weeks to a first accepted contribution is longer than the timelines Mercor (typically 2 to 4 weeks from signing to payment), Labelbox Prism (under 21 days from first call to first payment) and Ooak Data (2 to 4 weeks per deal) publish, although each measures from a different point. Compare it in our buyer directory.