Guides
Learn: selling and licensing business data for AI
Plain-English guides for founders, trustees and the labs that buy, researched from public sources and cited inline.
For data owners
Start with the complete guide, then work out what your archive is worth and what to save.
How to sell your company's data after a shutdown (complete guide)
A plain-English guide to selling or licensing a closed company's email, Slack, docs and code to AI labs: who buys, what it's worth, the legal checks and the steps.
6 min read →Valuation and pricingWhat is my company's data worth? How AI buyers price archives
How AI labs and data buyers price a company's email, Slack, docs, tickets and code: the five factors, the published ranges, and what pulls a number down.
4 min read →Selling data after a shutdownStartup shutdown data checklist: what to export before you cancel your tools
Before you cancel Google Workspace, Slack, GitHub or Zendesk, export these. A system-by-system checklist to keep your company's data, and its value, through a shutdown.
4 min read →For AI labs
Buyer guides are on the way. Meanwhile, see how we vet provenance and consent and the data we source.
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