QualifyDataQualifyDataThis page is for one reader: the franchisor itself — the main company at head office. If you run an individual franchise location, this program is not a fit for you. If you are the franchisor, your head office holds an archive that AI companies pay to license: the manuals, the support history, the training record.
A franchise system runs on documented process: the work gets written down — how a location opens, how it operates, how it gets fixed when something breaks. Over years of selling and supporting locations, the franchisor builds a record few other businesses can match: version after version of the operations manual, thousands of support conversations, training delivered, a development pipeline worked from first call to signed agreement.
AI developers pay to see how real work moved through a real business, and a franchisor's archive is real work at system scale. They license a cleaned copy of those records, with the names taken out. You keep your originals, and nothing about how you run your system changes.
Five minutes. See if your archive qualifies.No cost. No commitment. No logins, no records handed over — just a few questions about your archive's size.
A franchisor holds its system's operating memory. The categories below are the head-office records franchisors commonly keep — the kind buyers ask about first, because each shows work being done, decided, and taught over years.
Every item on that list is the franchisor's own record, created by the head-office team — a distinction the next sections keep in front of you.
The manuals and their revisions — the system's documented way of working, and how it changed.
The support and communication history — years of head office helping locations solve real problems.
Training materials and records — how the system teaches, documented end to end.
The development pipeline — how franchise sales actually moved, from first inquiry to signed agreement.
An individual location's archive. A single franchise location is not a fit for this program — the most common misunderstanding of this page, stated here and again below.
Franchisees' own business records. A location's books, its local customer lists, its own internal files — those belong to the franchisee, not to head office, and they are not part of a franchisor's license.
Thin or short records. A young system with a few years of history and a small head-office team has an archive — usually not one buyers will price.
No. The franchisor licenses its own operational records — the records the main company created and holds at head office. Your franchisees' business records are theirs: their books, their local operations, their customer relationships. They are not yours to license, and this program does not ask for them.
What head office holds about its work with franchisees is a different thing from the franchisees' own records. The support ticket your team answered, the email thread where head office worked through a location's problem, the training your team delivered — those are head-office records of head-office work, created by your team and held in your systems. Where a record is genuinely shared or genuinely theirs, your attorney draws the line before anything is listed — the license only ever covers the systems and years you name in it.
The measure is the head-office team, not the location count: hundreds of locations with a lean head office means a lean archive, while a deep support, training, and development staff makes a deep one.
The general shape: a franchisor in the US, Canada, the UK or Australia, operating for 3+ years, with 20 or more people working at desks at head office. Archives that run through five or more systems — manuals and document tools, email, chat, a support desk, a CRM, accounting, HR — are the strong ones, because each source adds records.The AI companies make the final call on fit, and that call starts with the five-minute check. The full standard is set out in the guide.
Fit criteria checked November 2026.
Five minutes. See if your archive qualifies.It can still qualify. A closed or sold franchisor's archive is measured as it was at its peak — the head-office team it had, the years of records it built, the systems it ran on — not as it is now. If the records still exist and you can still get to them, they are a finished asset. The closed-companies page walks through that lane, including the one deadline that matters: records in accounts that lapse, or storage that gets cleared, do not wait.
One question comes first, and it is a legal one: who holds the authority to license the archive now — the seller, the buyer of the brand, or an estate or trustee. The sale documents usually answer it. Have your attorney confirm it before anything is signed; we do not advise on that call.
Individual franchise locations. Plainly: a single franchise location — one restaurant, one gym, one store operating under someone else's brand — is not a fit for this program, no matter how well it has kept its own records. This program works with the main company's archive, and a location is not the main company.
Also not a fit: a franchisor with fewer than 20 people at desks at head office, fewer than 3 years of records, or a system so young the work has not been written down yet. A head office that kept its records by hand or by phone has little for a buyer to license.
You never hand over a login, and you see every number in writing before you commit to anything.
We follow one job through your head-office systems and answer your questions. No data, no logins, no commitment.
A client services agreement lets us represent you. It doesn't commit you to a deal, and your attorney is welcome on a call first.
60 to 90 minutes, system by system — how far back, how much. We see counts and sizes only. No records, and nobody gets a login.
That list — no actual records in it — goes out through our broker network to 15 AI companies. They bid, we compare the bids, and we submit the best one to you in writing.
You and your attorney review the terms, and you sign directly with the AI company behind that offer.
Your team exports copies, with help through every step — typically 5 to 10 business days. The buyer checks the export against the list, a review of about 30 days.
The AI company pays you the license fee directly.
From signing to money in the bank is typically 90 to 120 days. Timelines are typical, not promised — and no offer is guaranteed.
Published deals, and buyer ranges shown at the sizes we qualify — examples of what archives have sold for, not a promise of what yours is worth. Your number only exists as a written offer after the intake call.
No. This program is for the franchisor's head office — the main company — and its own archive. An individual franchise location is a separate business with its own records, and locations are not a fit for this program. If your system's franchisor side may qualify, that conversation belongs to the franchisor.
No. The archive is the franchisor's own head-office records, and the whole process runs through your head-office team and your systems — the intro call, the intake, and the export. Your franchisees' businesses and their records are not part of it.
It can. A sold or wound-down franchisor is measured at its peak — the head-office team it had and the years of records it built. The first question is who holds the authority to license the archive after the sale, and that is answered by the sale documents. Your attorney confirms it before anything is signed.
It depends on three things: how many different sources the work ran through and what kind of data they hold, how many people worked at desks at head office — now or at peak — and how many years of records you kept. Case studies from AI labs run from $150K to $550K, and higher for large archives. Your own number only exists as a written offer after the intake call.
Never. We never touch or access your data — not during the intake, not during the export, not ever. The intake covers counts and sizes only. Your records go straight from your systems to the AI company you sign with.
Nothing, at any step. Your business never pays anything.
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.
And your business never pays anything.