Your company data is worth what a suitable buyer is willing to pay for a defined, usable, lawfully licensable asset under specific terms. There is no defensible universal price per email, ticket, or employee. Our assessment evaluates readiness rather than estimating money.
Separate usefulness, readiness, and price
Usefulness asks whether the records help with a buyer’s task. Readiness asks whether the asset can be understood, prepared, and licensed. Price is a negotiated outcome that also depends on current demand, substitutes, rights, and bargaining conditions. A useful asset may not be ready; a ready asset may attract no offer.
Build the evidence a buyer can evaluate
Document domain specificity, history, completeness, linked outcomes, provenance, and permitted uses. Identify the cost of redaction, quality review, extraction, and secure delivery. An apparently large archive can shrink substantially after duplicate, restricted, and unusable material is removed.
Why public deal headlines are weak comparables
Published figures may refer to different asset classes, ongoing updates, exclusivity, broader business arrangements, or multiple transactions. Provider marketing may describe illustrative outcomes rather than completed deals. Check what was licensed, when, to whom, and under what restrictions before using any figure as a benchmark.
The buyer profiles distinguish public pricing statements from verified transaction evidence. We have not independently audited completed transactions and do not convert those statements into calculator outputs.
Compare net proceeds and rights together
Prepare a deal worksheet with gross payment, intermediary fees, preparation costs, legal-review costs, taxes to discuss with advisers, payment milestones, and ongoing delivery obligations. Keep uncertain amounts as ranges or unknowns rather than silently setting them to zero.
A non-exclusive, limited-use license and a perpetual, broadly sublicensable agreement should not be compared only by cash payment. Consider the opportunity cost of restrictions on future licensing and the continuing operational burden.
Ask for an asset-specific evaluation
Provide a non-sensitive inventory and ask what additional evidence would change an indicative offer. Agree evaluation rights before submitting an approved sample. Clarify whether an offer is conditional on quality acceptance, customer approval, downstream resale, or a minimum volume.
Improve the asset before spending heavily
Prioritize the smallest review that resolves an important uncertainty. Confirm a rights issue before paying for extraction. Test whether outcomes are actually linked before rebuilding a historical archive. Ask a relevant buyer whether the task and format are wanted before undertaking extensive normalization.
Use our readiness methodology to identify these dependencies, then compare buyer types and seek actual terms.