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You keep the company.

Get exit money for your old customer conversations and docs.

Anonymized by the buyer before use.

We never see the records, so we do not anonymize them. Where a buyer requires anonymizing, that is the buyer's process. Ask for the steps in writing before anything is sent.

Payouts range from $100k to $1M+ for a simple data export.

That span is what buyers publish as floors. It is not a figure from us and not a forecast. micro1 publishes tiers of $100k+, $500k+ and $1M+, and a webinar summary states compensation between $100K and $2M+. Nyne states partnerships commonly worth $100K or more. Troveo states typical full-company deals at six figures. The lines and links are repeated under What buyers say they pay.

micro1 data partnerships micro1 company referral BERI, on the micro1 tiers AI Trainer, on the micro1 tiers Webinar summary Nyne Troveo

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The company stays yours.

A buyer may license the old conversations and docs.

You hear that buyer's name first. You pay no fee. The buyer pays us.

What counts as the record

Examples of records a company keeps. A buyer did not publish this list.

  • Job notes

    Estimates, change orders, RFIs, schedules and field notes.

  • Service tickets

    Tickets, runbooks and call recordings from the day-to-day work.

  • SOPs and CRM

    Playbooks, knowledge bases, CRM history and project histories.

The rule

We never see your data

We hold your answers and your contact details.

We never see the records, so we do not anonymize them. Where a buyer requires anonymizing, that is the buyer's process. Ask for the steps in writing before anything is sent.

  • Never ask for files.

    No exports, no samples, no screenshots. This site has no upload field.

  • Never hold your records.

    We do not store them, copy them, clean them or pass them along.

  • Never introduce without a yes.

    You hear the buyer's name and the reason. Nothing is sent until you agree.

  • Never charge you.

    No fee and no commission. The buyer pays us.

How it works

Four steps. You can stop after any one.

  1. 01

    Answer seven questions

    About the company and the records. Name the systems. Do not describe what is in them. Send no files.

  2. 02

    We match one buyer

    You hear the name, and the reason, before anything is sent.

  3. 03

    The buyer offers

    The buyer makes its own offer. Any contract and any payment sit between you and that buyer.

  4. 04

    You decide

    Take the offer or walk away. We introduce only the one buyer that fits the company type.

The published range for a company like yours

Set three things about your company. The range repeats only figures that buyers, licensing firms and the press have published. We add no figure of our own.

60
5200+
10 years operating
120+

Your kind of company decides which published figures count. Staff count and years operating do not move the range, because nobody publishes a rate per head or per year. They only drive the two check lines. At 200+ staff, choose your size in the questions.

Published range for this kind of company

Illustration only. These are other companies' published figures. They are not an estimate of your records and not an offer. A buyer may offer you less, more, or nothing.

    Some companies named here may be the buyer we introduce you to. Their figures are their own published statements, not what they will offer you.

      Carries your answers into the questions. At 200+ staff, choose your size there.

      What has been reported

      Every figure below was published by someone else. The label tells you how far to trust it.

      Payouts range from $100k to $1M+ for a simple data export.

      That span is what buyers publish as floors. It is not a figure from us and not a forecast. The source is the strip below, What buyers say they pay.

      Owner-stated. One-off sale during a wind-down. Forbes 16 Apr 2026.

      cielo24, a transcription company that was shutting down

      "hundreds of thousands of dollars"

      Payer
      An unnamed AI company or companies, through SimpleClosure.
      Recipient
      cielo24, a 13-year-old transcription and captioning company that was shutting down. Size is not stated.
      What data
      13 years of Slack, Jira tickets, emails and Google Drive files.

      Forbes quotes the company's CEO, Shanna Johnson: For that, cielo24 received "hundreds of thousands of dollars," which Johnson said helped her go from "I don't know how we are going to pay our bills" to "we can tie this up neatly with a bow and be able to walk away."

      The figure is a range. The company was shutting down. The buyer is unnamed. Forbes and WebProNews do not say whether this sale was anonymized, or by whom.

      Forbes, via the Wayback Machine Gizmodo WebProNews

      Reported range. Per deal, one-off. Over the past year to Apr 2026. Forbes 16 Apr 2026.

      Closing startups, via SimpleClosure

      $10,000 to $100,000 per company. Nearly 100 deals. "over $1 million dollars" recovered.

      Payer
      Unnamed AI companies and data labelers, through SimpleClosure's AssetHub.
      Recipient
      Closing startups. Individual companies are not named.
      What data
      Slack, email, Jira and code archives.

      Attributed to SimpleClosure's CEO, Dori Yona, via Forbes. Forbes: "It has recovered over $1 million dollars on behalf of founders, typically paying between $10,000 and $100,000 per company." A preview of Upstarts Media says Yona told Forbes the test version had recovered $1 million for founders over the previous year, across nearly 100 deals.

      The range covers closing startups. It does not cover operating companies. We do not add the deals up past the broker's own recovered total.

      A competitor, Sunset, also buys defunct company data at similar prices. Reported by Forbes. Forbes gives Sunset no separate number.

      Forbes, via the Wayback Machine Gizmodo Upstarts Media, preview

      Published deals, one by one

      Each figure is the publisher's own statement. Nobody independent has confirmed any of them. None of them is our deal, and none of these companies is our client.

      • Published by Red Deer Data, a licensing firm. $1.2M for an industrial distributor, listed as paid in nine days.

        Licensing firm-stated. Read 2026-10-13.

        Red Deer Data

      • Published by Red Deer Data, a licensing firm. $500K for a third-party logistics company, listed as paid in seven days.

        Licensing firm-stated. Read 2026-10-13.

        Red Deer Data

      • Published by Polyshares, a buyer. $450K for a roofing company, for a perpetual exclusive license to its operational records.

        Company-stated. Read 2026-10-13.

        Polyshares track record

      • Published by Red Deer Data, a licensing firm. $350K for a logistics provider and distributor, in a data-licensing payout.

        Licensing firm-stated. Read 2026-10-13.

        The account leaves open which records were licensed, what preparation was done, and how long the deal took.

        Red Deer Data logistics account

      • Published by Polyshares, a buyer. $300K for a general contractor, for a perpetual exclusive license to its operational records.

        Company-stated. Read 2026-10-13.

        Polyshares track record

      • Published by Polyshares, a buyer. $275K for a solar company, for a perpetual exclusive license to its operational records.

        Company-stated. Read 2026-10-13.

        Polyshares track record

      • Published by The Information. $150K for HVAC companies, according to a press headline.

        Press headline only. Article not read. Read 2026-10-13.

        The headline does not establish whether the amount was paid, offered or an upper bound, or whether it applies to each company.

        The Information headline

      • Published by Polyshares, a buyer. $110K for a global marketing agency, for a perpetual exclusive license to its operational records.

        Company-stated. Read 2026-10-13.

        Polyshares track record

      • Published by Ooak Data. Education technology company, 400+ people, six years of history and 15 tools. Amount not published.

        Company-stated. Read 2026-10-13.

        Ooak Data partner page

      • Published by Ooak Data. Construction technology company, 200+ people, four years of history and seven tools. Amount not published.

        Company-stated. Read 2026-10-13.

        Ooak Data partner page

      • Published by Ooak Data. Fleet logistics company, 15+ people, four years of history and seven tools. Amount not published.

        Company-stated. Read 2026-10-13.

        We found no published deal with a smaller company among the sources we read.

        Ooak Data partner page

      What buyers say they pay

      Company-stated floors. Not a payment to a named company, and not a forecast. This strip is the source for the payout line above.

      Company-stated. Oct 2026. No named recipient. Budget announcement: Company-stated. Read 2026-10-13.

      micro1 tiers

      • $100k+. Qualified Enterprise Data Partnerships.
      • $500k+. Large-scale operational datasets or ongoing participation across multiple teams and business functions.
      • $1M+. Highly unique, proprietary operational data.
      • $100K-$2M+ for approved data packages, on the referral page.
      • "$100k+ for first licensing agreements on standard in-scope workflows, $500k+ for recurring agreements spanning several workflow types, and $1M+ for specialized proprietary operations that labs cannot source elsewhere."
      Who states it
      micro1, on its own pages, and in third-party summaries of those tiers. Not named here as the buyer an introduction would make.
      What data
      SOPs, knowledge bases, CRM data, project histories and QA processes.

      In its own announcement, micro1 said it committed $1 billion over twelve months to acquiring and licensing enterprise operational data. An announced intention, not money set aside for any one company.

      A published floor for qualifying deals, not a price that was paid, and not an average. A plus sign is a floor. Not a price for your company.

      micro1 data partnerships micro1 budget announcement micro1 company referral BERI AI Trainer

      Company-stated. 2026. Webinar summary. No named recipient.

      micro1, on compensation

      "Participating companies are compensated between $100K and $2M+, depending on the scope and value of their data."

      The same summary says rare cases exceeding $10 million in run rates. That is not a named deal, and it is not used here as a figure. Not a price for your company.

      Webinar summary

      Company-stated. Read 2026-10-11. Period not stated.

      Nyne

      • "Typical partnership $100K+".
      • "Depending on the type and amount of data available, partnerships are commonly worth $100K or more."
      Who states it
      Nyne, on its own page. Not named here as the buyer an introduction would make.
      What data
      Historical data from tools such as QuickBooks, Salesforce and Jira. Multi-system, multi-year records.

      Marketing by a firm that earns on deals. Names no deal. "Commonly worth $100K or more" is a floor. Nyne's page says it de-identifies and reviews in a step it runs.

      Nyne

      Company-stated. 2026. Troveo guide dated 11 Sep 2026.

      Troveo

      "typical full-company deals at six figures."

      Who states it
      Troveo, on its own page. Not named here as the buyer an introduction would make.
      What data
      Company data. The page does not name a deal.

      "It has a floor, because our business data page puts typical full-company deals at six figures." Marketing. Names no deal. Not a forecast for your company.

      Troveo

      Court-record bid. One-off. 14-17 Aug 2026. Not a small business. A bankrupt airline.

      Spirit Airlines business records

      $10 million from Google. $7.5 million from Mercor.io.

      Payer
      Google, the winning bidder, and Mercor.io, the backup bidder.
      Recipient
      Spirit Aviation Holdings (Spirit Airlines), in Chapter 11.
      What data
      De-identified business data, code and operations records: 100 million emails, 500 million Teams chats, revenue, aircraft operations, productivity, audit and fraud. Passenger data is excluded.

      A bid is not a paid price. The approval hearing was postponed to 9 September 2026, and no outcome was found.

      A later court filing, dated 4 September 2026, reports an offer of $12.5 million. Reported. One-off. Not accepted as far as found. The bidder is left unnamed here.

      Court filing, Doc 1463 Later court filing, Doc 1556 Bloomberg Law ch-aviation View from the Wing Later filing, Let's Data Science Later filing, CSO Online

      Publisher archive licenses

      Confirmed. Calendar year 2024. 24 Jul 2024.

      Taylor & Francis

      "over $75m in 2024", total AI partnership revenues, expected.

      Payer
      Microsoft-linked AI partners. Taylor & Francis says Microsoft plus one unnamed partner.
      Recipient
      Taylor & Francis (Informa).
      What data
      Access to historical academic content, with some additional recurring annual fees over the next three years for new content.

      Two deals combined. Expected, and not yet received when that half-year report was written. Mostly a one-time access fee. Confirmed in Informa's half-year report.

      Informa half-year report

      Confirmed. Two one-off projects. 13 Jun 2024.

      John Wiley & Sons

      $23 million in fiscal 2024. $21 million in fiscal 2025.

      Payer
      Two large technology companies. Not named.
      Recipient
      John Wiley & Sons.
      What data
      Learning and research content for model training.

      Two payments, not one. Limited duration, limited rights, and non-exclusive. Confirmed by Wiley management on its Q4 FY24 earnings call.

      MarketBeat, Wiley earnings call

      Wider market, for context

      • Reported. Per year. 22 Feb 2024.

        Google and Reddit. User posts, for model training and search. "$60 million per year".

        Neither company confirmed the figure.

        TheWrap TechCrunch

      • Confirmed. Multi-year total. 22 Feb 2024.

        Unnamed buyers and Reddit. The same posts. "$203.0 million" aggregate, terms of two to three years, signed in January 2024. Confirmed in Reddit's IPO prospectus, via TechCrunch.

        A total across deals over two to three years. Not annual, and not one buyer. Not the same as the $60 million row.

        TechCrunch

      • Reported. Five-year total. 22 May 2024.

        OpenAI and News Corp. Current and archive content from the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, the New York Post and others. "more than $250 million over five years".

        "Could be worth." A five-year total. Not divided here.

        Yahoo News VentureBeat

      • Reported. Per year. 18 Nov 2024.

        OpenAI and Dotdash Meredith. Publisher content. "at least $16 million per year".

        A floor on the fixed part. The variable part has no published number.

        Adweek Engadget

      • Reported. Per year. 30 Jul 2025.

        Amazon and The New York Times. News, NYT Cooking and The Athletic. "$20 million to $25 million a year", a multiyear deal.

        Annual, a range, and from people familiar with the matter.

        To Vima TheWrap

      • Company-stated. Calendar 2023, annual across deals. Jun 2024.

        AI licensing customers and Shutterstock. Images, video, music and metadata. "$104 million in annual revenue from AI licensing agreements in 2023".

        Revenue across many buyers. It is not the price of one deal.

        AOL

      • Reported range. Per item. 5 Apr 2024.

        Unnamed tech companies, in talks, and Photobucket. Photos and videos. "5 cents to $1 per photo and more than $1 per video".

        Discussed rates, not paid prices. Not multiplied by the size of the catalog.

        OODA Loop The Decoder

      • Confirmed. Per title, three-year term. 25 Nov 2024.

        HarperCollins and opted-in authors. Select backlist nonfiction. "$5,000 per book", split "$2,500 each". Microsoft is named by Bloomberg. HarperCollins confirmed only an undisclosed company.

        Opt-in, select titles, a three-year term. A per-title number, not a company total. Confirmed by the publisher to authors.

        Publishers Weekly The Decoder

      • Confirmed. One-off. 20 Jul 2026.

        Anthropic, and authors and publishers of pirated books in a class. About 480,000 books. "$1.5 billion Settlement" and "3000 for each of the books you wrote". Final approval 20 Jul 2026.

        A legal settlement, not a payment for data.

        Thurrott

      None of these is a forecast. We will never quote you a number of our own. A buyer's written offer is the only figure that counts.

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      Who this is for

      Records the company owns. If none of these fits, the form will say so.

      • Roofing

        Job notes, estimates and change orders from work the company owns.

      • HVAC and plumbing

        Tickets and call recordings from HVAC, plumbing, electrical and solar.

      • Builders

        RFIs, schedules and field notes from contracting, design-build and remodel work.

      • IT services

        Tickets and runbooks from an IT service firm or a managed service provider.

      • Software

        SOPs, tickets and product planning, with 30 or more staff.

      • Consulting and staffing

        Playbooks, CRM and project histories. 30 or more staff, in the US, the UK or Canada.

      Out today: law and accounting, health records, payment cards, bank data, children's data, export-controlled work, scraped or AI-generated content, records held for clients, and under three years.

      Reported by

      The outlet, the claim, and the link. No logos.

      • Bloomberg Law. Google's $10 million bid for Spirit Airlines business data.

        Bloomberg Law

      • Gizmodo. Nearly 100 deals, and $10,000 to $100,000 per company, for closing startups.

        Gizmodo

      • Informa, via its half-year report. Over $75m in 2024 expected from AI partnership revenues.

        Investegate

      Questions before you start

      Where we cannot answer, the sentence says so.

      Who pays you?

      You pay nothing at any stage: no fee, no commission, no share of what you are paid. If you sign a license with a buyer we introduced, that buyer pays us a referral fee. We earn when a deal closes, so weigh what we tell you with that in mind. This page states no percentage and no dollar amount for that fee.

      Who are the buyers?

      Companies that license operating records. You hear the one buyer's name, and our reasons, before anything is sent. You can say no. One company goes to one buyer, and your details are not sent to a list. We are an independent referrer, not a buyer's agent, partner, representative or spokesperson.

      What are my records worth?

      We cannot tell you, and we will not guess. The figures on this page describe other companies' records, other companies' claims, or bids a court had not approved when we read the filings. None of them is a forecast. Only a buyer's written offer answers the question for you.

      Am I selling my company, or losing my data?

      You keep the company. What a buyer puts in front of you is a license for a defined copy of defined records, not a sale of the business. Read the license for its term, its exclusivity and what it covers. Some published licenses are perpetual. We do not promise that a buyer will make an offer.

      Am I allowed to do this?

      We cannot answer that, and we never give legal advice. It depends on your contracts, your privacy promises and the law where you operate. That is work for your company and its lawyer. The form asks who owns the records and whether contracts restrict sharing, so a restricted set is not introduced by accident.

      My customers' details are in those records. What then?

      At least one buyer publishes that it pays net 30 to 60 once the data is approved, anonymized, and delivered. That is the buyer's sentence, not a process we have watched, so ask for the anonymization steps in writing before you send anything. Records you hold for clients are out of scope. Health records, payment cards, bank data, children's data and export-controlled work are excluded.

      Who owns the data?

      The company keeps its records. We never ask for files and we never hold them. One buyer's public page says companies retain ownership of the underlying data. Another describes the grant as defined material for a defined term. The license is the buyer's contract, and you deal with the buyer on it.

      What happens to the data after?

      If data moves, it moves between you and the buyer, on the buyer's contract. We do not store, copy, clean or pass records along. Read the license for its term. Some published licenses are perpetual. A commentary we have not re-read says data already used for training cannot be pulled back. That is not our advice.

      You pay nothing. The buyer pays us.

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      What you are being offered

      • Who it is for. An owner or officer of a trades, building or IT services company, or of a software, consulting, staffing, logistics or operations company with 30 or more staff in the United States, the United Kingdom or Canada, whose records are mostly in English and are the company's own.
      • What you get. A read of seven answers. If they match, an email that names one buyer and gives our reasons. A yes or a no from you before any introduction. If you say yes, a direct conversation with that buyer. If they do not match, a plain no, and no referral.
      • The outcome a buyer can put in front of you. A license, written by the buyer, for a defined copy of defined records. One buyer's public page says companies retain ownership of the underlying data. Another describes the grant as defined material for a defined term. Published terms also include perpetual licenses, including a perpetual exclusive license on one buyer's track record. The license is not a sale of your business. We do not promise that a buyer will make an offer.
      • What it costs. You pay nothing at any stage: no fee, no commission, no share of what you are paid. If you sign a license with a buyer we introduced, that buyer pays us a referral fee. This page states no percentage and no dollar amount for that fee.
      • What you put at risk. The time to answer seven questions. You do not upload records to us. No introduction happens until you agree, and you can walk away from the buyer's offer. There is no charge, so there is nothing to refund. We do not promise you will like the buyer's terms.
      • What you do next. See if you qualify.

      Disclosure

      • Garrow Advisory is an independent referrer. When a company we introduce signs a license, the buyer pays us a fee. Companies pay us nothing.
      • We are not an agent, partner, representative or spokesperson of any buyer.
      • We are not a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice. Whether you may license your records is for your company and its counsel.
      • None of the published deals on this page is a deal Garrow Advisory arranged, and none of those companies is our client.
      • Some companies named here may be the buyer we introduce you to. Their figures are their own published statements, not what they will offer you.
      • Figures on this page are public statements by third parties, labeled by source type. The range tool repeats published figures and makes none of its own. None is an estimate, a quote or a promise of what any company will receive. A court bid is a bid. A company-stated figure is that company's own account.
      • We do not receive, store or process company records. A live form would receive your answers and your contact details only.
      • [Operating company legal name] and [contact address] go here, with a link to [privacy notice]. Until those exist, this block stays marked draft.
      • Draft for review. Not published. Not for distribution.

      See if you qualify

      Seven questions and your contact details. Nothing to upload. The draft form on this page does not send or store anything. A live form would email the answers to us and still would not take a file.

      • We read your answers and reply by email.
      • If there is a fit, the email names one buyer and gives our reasons.
      • No introduction happens until you say yes.
      1. Your company
      2. Your records
      3. You
      What kind of company is it?

      Pick the closest one.

      Choose where the company is based.

      How many people work there?

      Pick a range.

      How long has it been operating?

      Pick a range.

      Draft. This form does not send or store anything. Your answers stay on this page.

      Reviewer notes, not shown to visitors

      Garrow Advisory chosen 2026-10-11; trademark search and domain purchase (garrowadvisory.com looked unregistered) still pending.

      Rule: one company goes to one buyer. Company type picks the lane first, so a firm that could suit both still gets one route. A domain already introduced to one buyer is never sent to the other.