QualifyDataQualifyDataIt depends on three things: how many sources the work ran through and what kind of data they hold, how many people worked at desks — now or at peak — and how many years of records you kept. Case studies from AI labs run $150K to $550K, higher for large archives. Your real number exists only as a written offer after the intake call.
That is the honest answer, and it is the whole answer anyone can give you before the buyers see the shape of your archive. This page walks through the three drivers in order, the prices buyers have actually paid, and why the first real number arrives in writing — after the intake call, and before you sign anything.
Depth comes first. An archive where the same work shows up in email, team chat, a CRM, support tickets and the accounting system gives a buyer five views of how the company actually ran. An archive that is email alone gives them one. Buyers pay for the thicker record, which is why how many sources the work ran through — and what kind of data they hold — outweighs everything else.
Desk staff come next, because they are the people who created the records. Years come last: a longer run of records shows more of the company's real patterns. Closed companies are read the same way, at their peak — the desk staff and the years from the final stretch of real operation.
The honest reference points are the deals buyers have already closed. These are case studies from AI labs — examples of what buyers have paid for company records, checked November 2026:
Those are examples, not a scale your archive gets priced from. A deep archive from a larger team can run higher. A thin one can come in lower, or not fit at all.
Because the number is set by buyers looking at the actual shape of your archive, and that shape only exists on paper after the intake call maps it system by system. Anyone who quotes you a figure before that is guessing. The estimator gives you the rough range from the three drivers. The first real number is the best offer, submitted in writing — and it arrives before you are asked to sign anything.
No cost. No commitment. No logins, no records handed over — just a few questions about the size of your archive.
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.