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Training material: who approves its use?
Short answer
Before you adapt a model on company materials, establish where each group of files comes from and which work it was approved for. Your own approved texts usually go into the first trial, while client and partner materials wait for a decision by the person who knows the agreements. At Syntalith an app costs from €3,000 net, and at 300 materials to assess a month of 12 minutes each it pays back in 2.4 months.
How we workDetails ↓
- 01Call30 minutes with an engineer, free
- 02PrototypeA working system on your process and data, free
- 03ImplementationTarget and fixed price in the contract; 50% at signing
- 04Acceptance50% once the agreed target is met
- model on your server or in the cloud in the EU
- quoted after the review
- same work in application with EU cloud model
- from €3,000
- task, data and equipment analysis
- €0
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Statistics
Training data and AI: statistics 2026
2.4 mo.
payback of a €3,000 app at 300 materials to assess a month: €2,094 of work today, €841 with checking and the model. Scenario.
48.8%
According to Eurostat (2025), 48.8% of EU enterprises that considered AI and did not use it named concerns about data protection and privacy.
49%
According to the European Commission (2026), 49% of EU SMEs and mid-caps name legal uncertainty as a barrier to AI.
Source: European Commission, Flash Eurobarometer 578 (2026) ↗
52.5%
According to Eurostat (2025), 52.5% of EU enterprises that considered AI and did not use it named a lack of clarity about the legal consequences.
48%
According to the European Commission (2026), 48% of EU SMEs and mid-caps name a lack of expertise as a barrier to AI.
Source: European Commission, Flash Eurobarometer 578 (2026) ↗
Figures checked: 22 October 2026
One folder, different agreements
A company wants to adapt a model to write service descriptions. The archive holds its own approved texts and presentations prepared by partners. Employees used both on projects, but that does not show whether both kinds of material may go into training, or in which environment.
The project owner separates these groups and sends a specific question to the person who knows the agreements with the partner. If there is no answer, the partner's materials stay outside the first scope, and a trial on the company's own texts lets you assess the task without waiting. Hugging Face describes licences in repository cards and recommends checking the terms, but a file being in a repository does not replace an assessment of its use.
- 01Groupown, a client's, a partner's or public
- 02Agreementwhich work the material was approved for
- 03Personwho confirmed it, and when
- 04Setwhich files went to the contractor
- 05Purposea new use needs a new question
- Assessing answers, preparing examples or training
- Who gets copies, and whether an external service takes part
- Which files the task really needs
- What happens to the copies after the work ends
What it costs and when it pays back
- Today
- 300 materials to assess × 12 min = 60.0 h (€2,094)
- With the system, a person checks the output in 40% of the time
- €838
- Model, 1 call per case, Claude Sonnet 5.5
- €3
- Cost of one case
- €6.98 today, €2.80 with the system
- Saving
- €1,253 a month
Payback of €3,000
2.4 months
The volume, the time and the checking share are the scenario's assumptions. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat. Model: 3,000 input tokens and 300 output tokens per call at Anthropic's rates, converted at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026.
The count covers the work around a case: searching, reading, writing and passing it on. What remains is the time to check the result, 40% of today's work in the scenario. Before the quote we time both on 20 to 100 cases the team has already handled, in a €0 test that takes 5 working days.
The scenario assumes 300 materials a month for which someone today establishes origin and approval in 12 minutes. The app collects the record and suggests the group, and the responsible person makes the decision, which is why we count checking as 40% of today's time.
Less data is often enough
If the task concerns the style of a description, the full history of correspondence is unnecessary, and the contractor should be able to explain why it needs each set. The agreements have to reach the people preparing the examples, because a decision in a manager's email will not stop a file at the next export. Material approved for an internal trial may later enter a product plan for other users, and then the project owner goes back to the responsible person with the new purpose. The decision to train is covered in the article does your company have enough examples for fine-tuning.
A style description and a few templates are enough
a ready-made model with instructions
no training
Your own approved texts
a trial on approved examples
from €3,000
Client and partner materials
training after the responsible people decide
priced after an analysis
Where to start
We begin the first call with a description of the task and the kinds of material, without sending them. We establish what information the decision makers need and what can be assessed on examples that are already approved. We build such a rollout as part of private LLMs. For the free analysis, a description of one case from recent weeks and of the tools it ran through is enough. You do not need to send confidential documents, and you get a written plan within 2 working days.
Worked example · Scenario
How we count the payback: preparing the data
We run the same count for your company in the free analysis.
€4,188
a month for the work on 600 questions
EU cloud version payback: 0.8 mo.
Our assumptions are 12 minutes to find an answer in the documentation, and checking in 15% of the old time. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat, for companies with 10 or more employees. Model cost: Claude Sonnet 5.5, about 6,000 + 500 tokens per answer in the EU cloud version, at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026. We count the payback for an app with a model in the EU cloud (from €3,000 net). We price the model on your server after a call, and the cost of people's work stays the same.
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