QualifyDataQualifyDataHello. This page is for owners who already closed the doors.
When a company shuts down, almost everything gets sold, settled, or written off. The equipment goes. The lease ends. The name comes down. But one asset almost never gets sold, because until recently almost nobody knew it could be: the records themselves — the years of email, invoices, tickets, files and workflow history your people created while the business was running.
AI developers now pay to license a cleaned copy of exactly that — a copy, with the names and identifiers taken out, so they can see how real work moved through a real business. You keep your originals. The business is done. This is a check for work that was already done, in the past, sitting in accounts nobody opens anymore.
Five minutes. See if your archive qualifies.No cost. No commitment. The check starts with a few questions about the company as it was when it was running.
A closed company has no staff today — of course it doesn't. That's not how this is sized. What matters is the company at its peak, in its final stretch of real operation: how many people worked at desks, how many years of records built up, and how many systems the work ran through — email, documents, chat, your CRM, project tools, accounting, HR, databases.
The general shape of a fit is a business that ran 3 or more years with 20 or more desk staff — and in fields like healthcare and dental, law, accounting and tax, and finance, as few as 10 can be enough. If you were the owner, a successor, or you're the one handling what's left of the company, this conversation starts with you.
Five minutes. See if your archive qualifies.We're not going to invent urgency for you — there is a genuine clock here, and it's mechanical, not sales talk. Your archive lives inside accounts: an email host, a CRM, cloud storage, a bookkeeping login. After a shutdown, those accounts get cancelled, or the card on file dies, or a subscription lapses — and when the account goes, the records go with it. Once the data is gone, the option is gone.
So the order matters, and it's simple: license first, cancel after. If you're planning to shut those accounts down anyway, run the five-minute check before you do. Other owners of closed companies are being paid for archives right now, in a market that is new and moving — the ones who lose out are the ones whose records vanished before they ever heard the question.
For a lot of closed companies, the records aren't free to keep, either. Subscriptions stay open because the files are in them. Storage gets paid month after month for a business that no longer exists. If you ran a practice, you may be paying to keep records alive because you're required to — a carrying cost on a company that's finished.
Licensing flips the sign on that line. The archive you're paying to keep becomes the thing that pays you — and after the license is done, you can cancel the accounts with a clear head, knowing the value was collected first instead of deleted.
The records don't disappear — the duties around them continue. Tax, employment and industry rules require most records to be kept for years, so they sit in storage units, old servers and cloud accounts that somebody is still paying for. Until those accounts lapse or the records are destroyed on schedule, they are an asset the closed company still holds.
Yes — that is exactly the situation this page is for. A closed company's archive is measured as it was at its peak, in its final stretch of real operation: the desk staff it had, the years of records it built, the systems it ran on.
The person or entity that holds authority over the company's records — the owner, the estate, or a trustee, depending on how the company closed. Your attorney confirms who holds it in your case before anything is signed.
While the records still exist and you can still get to them. Cloud accounts lapse, storage gets cleared, and custodians destroy records when retention periods run out. The order that protects you is: license first, then let the accounts go.
Nothing. Your business never pays anything — and for a closed company, a license can end a storage bill instead of adding one.
The full process is the same as it is for operating companies — a 30-minute intro call, a services agreement that doesn't commit you to a deal, a 60-to-90-minute intake that looks at counts and sizes only (no records, no logins), then your archive goes out through our broker network to 15 AI companies, they bid, and we submit the best offer to you. From signing a license to payment is typically 90 to 120 days. Timelines are typical, not promised, and no offer is guaranteed — the honest version is that the decision is quick even though the process takes a few months.
Five minutes. See if your archive qualifies.We never touch or access your data. Not during the intake, not during the export, not ever. Your records go straight from your systems to the AI company you sign with — we are never in that chain. Your business never pays anything.