The value may sit in how your team solved the problem.
Not only in the final document. Years of finished work show how real problems get solved, and AI companies license that kind of history. A specialist licensing partner can tell you whether yours fits, and make an offer if it does.
Permission to use agreed records. Not a sale of your business.
A licence gives a buyer permission to use an agreed set of your records. The agreement spells out which records, how they may be used, for how long and on what terms. Some licences are exclusive and permanent, which means those specific records cannot be licensed again. That is part of what you weigh.
The buyer may want only part of what you have, so an offer covers the records that fit, not your whole archive. You decide whether the deal is worth it, looking at the price alongside the use, the records included, any work involved and anything you would commit to afterwards.
- Which records are included
- How the buyer may use them
- How long, and whether it is exclusive
- The price and when you are paid
- Your business and ownership
- Your systems and day-to-day work
- Any records you choose to exclude
- The decision to say no
A finished invoice shows the result. The history shows how you got there.
AI companies want to teach and test their systems on real work: how a request turns into a task, how a problem gets worked out, what was tried, what changed and how it ended. A connected history, where the request, the back-and-forth and the outcome stay together, shows that in a way a pile of separate files cannot.
The difficult cases count too. An attempt that failed, followed by the one that worked, can be as useful as a clean win, as long as the outcome is recorded. And because your team wrote these records while doing the work, they are hard to recreate any other way.
- NoticeMar 1Carrier quotes an 18% increase
- RemarketMar 4Quotes requested from 3 carriers
- SetbackMar 9Best quote declined over a flood exclusion
- OutcomeMar 15Second carrier accepted at +6%, client signed
Depth and completeness matter more than volume.
Years of email or thousands of invoices do not set a price on their own. A licensing partner looks at four things.
How complete the history is
Whether a piece of work can be followed from the first request to the final result, and whether the reasons behind decisions were written down.
How much is still there
How many years you can still look up today. Old systems, migrations and archived inboxes count, but only if the records survived the move.
What you are able to license
Records often mention customers, staff or suppliers. The partner checks what can be included and removes identifying details before anything is shared.
Whether it fits a buyer's need
Whether the kind of work in your records matches what buyers are looking for at the time.
About value and use.
What could our records be worth?
It depends on what the records contain, how complete they are and whether they fit what buyers need at the time. We do not quote prices. The first conversation tells you whether a closer look makes sense; any offer comes from the licensing partner after it has reviewed what exists.
How would a buyer use them?
To train or test AI systems on real-world work. The agreement defines exactly how the records may be used, and identifying details are removed before anything is shared.
Is this allowed? What about our customers' information?
Licensing records your business owns is a normal commercial agreement. What can be included depends on your contracts and on privacy rules, so the licensing partner's specialists review that with you before anything moves. You are welcome to involve your own adviser too.
Who decides what is included?
You do. The licensing partner proposes a scope based on what fits, and nothing is included without your approval.
Can the records be licensed again?
Often not for the same records: many licences are exclusive, which is part of why they pay. The licensing partner confirms exactly what further use is possible before you agree to anything.
Find out whether your records fit.
Tell us a little about your business and the work your team records. We will tell you whether a closer look makes sense.