What your company’s records could be worth

What buyers offered, bid and advertised for company records in 2026, by type of company.

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A small company, under 20 staff$2K–$10K+A startup closing down$10K–$100KAn operating company, 20 to 199 staff$50K–$200KA full package a buyer selects$100K–$2M+A large company in bankruptcy$7.5M–$12.5M

Examples behind each range

A small company, under 20 staff

$2K to $10K+ per archive

  • $2K to $10K+Typical value one data buyer puts on an archive before rights are cleared

A startup closing down

$10K to $100K per company

  • $10K to $100KTypical range for startups selling their records as they close, across nearly 100 deals
  • Hundreds of thousandsA transcription company with 13 years of Slack, Jira, email and Drive
  • Tens of thousandsPer codebase, for failed startups selling their code

An operating company, 20 to 199 staff

$50K to $200K per company

A reference band, not an estimate of what your company will receive. Your price is agreed with the buyer in writing.

  • $50K50 to 99 staff, on one buyer's published payout ladder
  • $100K100 to 199 staff, same ladder
  • $100K eachTwo licences of operating data, from a print business and a manufacturer under 100 staff

A full package a buyer selects

$100K to $2M+ per company

  • $100K to $2M+What one AI data company advertises for approved packages from firms with 30+ staff
  • $100K to $2MWhere two data marketplaces say their company deals typically land
  • $1MOffered for one company's Slack and operating history, 20+ staff
  • $200K200+ staff, top of the payout ladder

A large company in bankruptcy

$7.5M to $12.5M in bids

  • $10MAn airline's estate selected Google's bid for its email, chat and code
  • $7.5M and $12.5MThe alternate bid, and a competing bid filed later

54 kinds of records buyers ask for

Most sales bundle several.

Chat and email

Email and calendar · Team chat and messaging · SMS and business messaging · 3 more

Tickets and projects

Support tickets and cases · Project tasks and work history · Bug reports and issue history · 4 more

Customers and sales

CRM and sales pipeline · Customer support conversations · Customer onboarding and implementation · 4 more

Documents and knowledge

Contracts and agreements · Knowledge-base articles · Policies and manuals · 3 more

Finance and ledgers

General ledger and accounting · Invoices and accounts receivable · Accounts payable and vendor bills · 6 more

Code

Source code repositories · Pull requests and code review · Build, test, and deployment logs · 1 more

Operations

Work orders and field service · Dispatch and logistics · Inventory and warehouse records · 7 more

People and training

Organization and workforce structure · Recruiting and job postings · Training and learning records

Legal and regulated

Legal matter and case files · Healthcare and patient records

Nothing up front

We take 10% of the money you receive, capped at $100,000, agreed in writing before any work starts.

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For scale: large publishers and content libraries license to AI companies for $1M to $60M a year. That is a different product from a company’s own records.

Ready-made datasets: the middle half of 259 datasets sold by the year on data marketplaces ask $5K to $50K a year.

Figures from court filings, press reports and buyers’ and marketplaces’ own pages, October 2026.