VerticalScope signs data agreements with two frontier AI labs to license community content

What happened

On 10 November 2026 VerticalScope Holdings Inc. (TSX: FORA; OTCQX: VFORF) announced it has entered into agreements with two frontier AI labs. Under the agreements, VerticalScope will make a select portion of its community content available for use in connection with the counterparties' AI models and products.

Terms disclosed

VerticalScope expects to begin recognizing revenue under the agreements in the fourth quarter of 2026. The agreements provide for two potential revenue streams: fees for content delivered, based on the volume of tokens accepted, with the potential for additional data refreshes; and/or usage-based fees, as determined by the counterparty, tied to how much VerticalScope content contributes to AI-generated responses. The agreements currently cover a select number of the company's communities.

What is not disclosed

Consistent with the terms of the agreements, VerticalScope is not disclosing the counterparties or the financial terms. No individual lab is named, and no specific community is named in the announcement.

Context

VerticalScope, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Toronto, operates a platform of more than 1,200 online enthusiast communities with over 2 billion user-generated posts to date. Its CEO, Chris Goodridge, said the agreements reflect demand for human-generated community content as training and retrieval data for AI systems. This extends the licensing model previously seen with news publishers to user-generated community archives.