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Material change

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Lazarus drops the $1M lump sum.

Turing’s Lazarus no longer offers a single payout of up to $1M. It licenses a company’s record to labs and pays a share every time it sells, with nothing upfront and the split unpublished. [7]

Archived weekly public rollup through 3 November 2026 · week ending 6 November 2026 (America/New_York). Evidence is fixed to this week.

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No lump sum

Lazarus dropped the one-off payout of up to $1M. It licenses a company’s record to labs and pays a share on every sale, nothing upfront; the split is not published. [7]

Referrals $50K

Referral reward up to $50K per company (was $10K). Source code is not required; communication, tickets and docs often matter more. [7]

Marketplace now

AIData board reclassified Lazarus as a marketplace (own-account 20→19, marketplaces 13→14). Company-records middle half $135K–$492K (was $132K–$492K). [1]

Compared with 28 October 2026. Published claims; not offers or completed deals.

Board buyers
44
With a public figure
33
Software / code mentions
12
Board-wide ceiling
$5M

Demand mix

Software / code still leads.

  1. Software / code12
  2. Finance & accounting8
  3. Legal8
  4. Healthcare / medical6
  5. Manufacturing4
  6. Logistics4
  7. Construction3
  8. Insurance3
  9. Agent trajectories2

Mention counts carried from 30 October (heuristic, not hit counts). Categories overlap. These are not unique buyers, job counts, or market share. [2]

Published deal ranges

Law firms still lead the list.

USD per company kind, as listed on the AIData board [1]. Different from the board-wide ceiling.

Published company-kind deal ranges in USD. Source: AIData.Broker.
Company kindListed range
Law firmsLegal$50K–$1.25M [1]
Game studiosAuthored media$100K–$1M [1]
Digital healthHealth$100K–$900K [1]
Design and web agenciesProfessional$20K–$890K [1]
All 13 company kinds
Additional deal ranges from AIData.Broker
Company kindListed range
Biotech labsHealth$50K–$875K [1]
Video studiosAuthored media$95K–$870K [1]
Accounting and taxProfessional$25K–$865K [1]
Medical practicesHealth$80K–$820K [1]
Investment firmsProfessional$50K–$800K [1]
CybersecurityTechnology$20K–$750K [1]
Semiconductor and materialsIndustrial$100K–$750K [1]
ImagingHealth$80K–$620K [1]
Publishers and educationAuthored media$35K–$370K [1]

Lab hiring

Postings drift. Human Data titles hold.

Δ total jobs vs 28 October 2026.
These are postings, not hires.

Anthropic [4]

677 -4

Total postings · Human Data titles unchanged

xAI [5]

310 +5

Total postings · Human Data titles unchanged

OpenAI [6]

805 +0

Total postings · Human Data titles unchanged

Human Data titles recorded in this cut

Anthropic

  • Data Operations Manager, Human Data
  • Product Management, Human Data Platform

xAI

  • Human Data Engineer
  • Human Data Manager

OpenAI

  • Six Human Data / data-acquisition roles

Human Data titles unchanged. Totals are postings, not Human Data seats.

Coverage gaps

Where the evidence stops.

Few floors

Small companies [1]

Of 27 company-records buyers on the board, only 6 publish a minimum headcount (6 people at Mode for legal, up to 40 at Scale AI) and 2 ask for 3+ years of records.

Access walls

Consent / privilege [9]

Consent / no sensitive data (OpenAI data partnerships), NDA + de-identification (Lazarus, Idler), privilege in legal/finance.

Parked

HUMXN + Grepped [10]

Dead / parked. Excluded from an active-buy reading.

Unreachable

Ooak [8]

Still unreachable from our box. Not evidence that the programme closed.

The read

Operating records move from sale to license.

Operating records are shifting from one-off sales to licensing: Lazarus now pays per sale instead of a lump sum and values communication, tickets and docs over code. Code demand still holds, and Anthropic, xAI and OpenAI still staff Human Data.

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