Data deals don't fail on price. They fail on rights.
So we check rights first, then privacy, then packaging, then price, in that order. By the time a buyer opens a sample, nothing about your right to license it is in doubt.
Free valuation
Ten minutes: team size, systems, years of history and who owns what. Counts and estimates only. No files, no logins, no system access.
Discovery call
Thirty minutes on how work moves through your tools, where records live and what's off-limits. If something would stop a deal, you hear it now, not in month three.
Rights check
We separate what you own from what you hold for clients, read your customer terms and privacy policy for de-identified use, and agree an exclusion list with you and your counsel.
Anonymous summary
One page: what the data is, how much, which years and systems, what outcomes are recorded, the rights status and what's excluded. No files leave your company.
Buyers quote
We approach the buyers most likely to want your kind of records right now, under NDA and with your name withheld. A serious buyer may test a small de-identified sample you approve, under its own evaluation agreement that limits use and requires deletion.
Compare and negotiate
Every offer side by side: price, permitted use, exclusivity, term, payment schedule and handling rules. We negotiate for you. You decide, or walk away.
De-identify and deliver
Your IT lead exports the agreed scope. Identifiers become consistent placeholders using tools plus trained reviewers, you approve a sample, and the package ships with a provenance memo and a sheet describing what's inside.
Get paid, then renew
The buyer checks the delivery within a written acceptance window and pays you on the license milestones. Renewals and refreshes are set at signing, so the same records can earn again.
Your part is small
The valuation, one call, a contract review with your counsel, one guided export and a sample approval.
Rights review, the summary, buyer search, NDAs, negotiation, de-identification, packaging, delivery and follow-up.
Reviews the summary and an approved sample, signs the license, accepts delivery and pays you on the agreed schedule.
See every offer side by side
Price matters, but so do use, term and exclusivity. Those decide whether you can license the same records again next year.
Buyers usually ask for around 24 months of exclusivity. Use rights are often perpetual, because a trained model can't give data back, so the exclusivity term is the lever. We price exclusive and non-exclusive options before you choose.
The figures in this example scale with your own estimate. Change your picks anywhere on the site and they update.
Exclusive 24 months · perpetual use · all sources
Non-exclusive · perpetual use
Non-exclusive · first year, renews with new data
- Data
- —, —
- Permitted use
- Model training and evaluation
- Not permitted
- Resale, re-identification, naming your company, training models for your direct competitors
- Personal data
- Names, emails, phones and account IDs replaced with consistent placeholders
- Excluded
- HR and payroll, client-held files, direct messages, current price lists
- Term
- Perpetual use · 24-month exclusivity
- Outputs
- Models must not reproduce your records word for word
- Onward transfer
- No resale or sublicensing, and no transfer to a new owner without your consent
- Raw files
- Destroyed within 30 days of acceptance, with written confirmation
- Payment
- 50% on signature · 50% on acceptance · —
Every limit, in writing
The agreement spells out what the buyer can do, for how long, and what has to be destroyed. These are the terms we negotiate on every deal.
- Price and milestones: what's cash, what's credit, and what triggers each payment
- Exclusivity: never perpetual, and timed around any planned sale of your company
- Permitted use: training, evaluation or test environments, and whether models trained on your data can serve your competitors
- Scope: which systems, years and fields, plus the exclusion list
- De-identification: the standard, who applies it, and your sample approval
- Handling: raw-file retention, destruction, deletion requests and audit rights
- Renewals: refresh fees and options, set at signing
Three ways you can be paid
One-time license
A fixed fee for an agreed copy of your historical records. The most common deal today, and the usual shape for a closing company.
Often split between signature and acceptanceOngoing refresh
New records delivered on a schedule, paid per delivery or per year. Suits operating companies that keep creating data.
Recurring, priced as its own licenseCredits or model access
Part of the price paid as discounted AI usage, compute or a model tuned for your internal use. Can be worth a lot, but compare it to cash carefully.
Ask what's cash and what's creditWhat we never do
- Charge an upfront, listing or retainer fee
- Take custody of your raw data before you sign
- Share anything with a buyer before you approve it
- Sign you into perpetual exclusivity
- Quote a firm price before a buyer has looked
Red flags in any data offer
- A fee to get started
- A request for raw data before a signed agreement
- A 48-hour deadline that stops you comparing
- A firm price before anyone has seen a sample
- A request to keep it from your team or advisors
- An assignment of all rights where a license would do
One offer is not a price. Prices for the same data can differ several times over between buyers.
Start with the ten-minute part.
The free valuation tells you whether your records are a fit and roughly what they could earn, before you commit any time.