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Licensing company data while your business keeps running

Healthy companies also hold valuable data: emails, tickets, ERP and CRM records from many years. We license an anonymised copy to AI buyers. Your company keeps all originals and carries on as usual.

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At a glance

  • Operating companies can also license historical data to AI buyers.
  • What is licensed is an anonymised copy. The company keeps all originals and carries on as usual.
  • Current prices, customer lists, ongoing designs and personnel files remain excluded.
  • No upfront costs: the fee is only agreed once a buyer has been found.

Does data realisation also work without insolvency or a sale?

Yes. AI buyers look for data from real workflows. Whether the company keeps operating makes no difference to that.

What matters is the volume, history and linkage of the data: emails, tickets, ERP and CRM cases that can be traced to an outcome over years. For an operating company this is additional revenue from data that already exist. Which data are in demand is shown on the pages on email archives, ticket data and source code.

What is licensed, and what stays in-house?

Completed, historical cases are licensed. Everything that gives the company an edge today stays out.

  • Licensed: completed cases from email, tickets, ERP, CRM and projects, anonymised and without company names.
  • Excluded: current prices and calculations, customer lists, ongoing designs, personnel files and health data.
  • Exclusive or non-exclusive, as you choose. Exclusive licences achieve higher prices.

What does it bring?

For mid-sized companies usually a six-figure sum, for large companies more.

A first range for your company is available in the valuation with nine questions. Prices and transactions in detail are covered in the article What is company data worth?

What needs to be considered legally?

Mainly data protection and the rights to the content. We clarify both before every licence.

  • Personal data are anonymised before the handover; anonymised data are outside the scope of the GDPR (Recital 26).[1]
  • Under German law, the economic rights to code written by employees in the course of their duties belong to the employer (§ 69b UrhG).[2]
  • We check confidentiality clauses in customer contracts and exclude affected content.
  • Retention obligations remain unaffected, because a copy is licensed (§ 257 HGB).[3]

How does it work?

In four steps, alongside ongoing operations. No data leave the company until a buyer has been found.

  1. 1

    Initial call and estimate

    You answer nine questions on industry, software, data volume and history, or talk to us directly. We do not need access to the data for this and give you a first estimate.

  2. 2

    Data sheet and buyer search

    We describe the dataset without names, agree the data sheet with you and approach vetted buyers. Company and proceedings remain confidential.

  3. 3

    Fee and anonymisation

    As soon as a buyer has been found, we agree a success-based fee. Under a data processing agreement we anonymise the dataset locally at the seller; the buyer receives a sample under NDA.

  4. 4

    Licence and handover

    You approve the buyer, we hand over the anonymised data and then delete the mapping.

Frequently asked questions

Will customers or employees notice anything?

Nothing changes in day-to-day operations. The anonymisation runs locally on a copy, and people and companies are replaced before the handover. The buyer does not learn which company the data come from.

Does the company give up rights to its data?

No. What is granted is a licence to an anonymised copy. The originals stay entirely with the company. You decide on the scope, the term and whether the licence is exclusive.

How much effort is it for us?

Little: a questionnaire or a call, later an export of the systems. We take care of the buyer search, the anonymisation and the audit report.

How long does it take until payment?

From the first call to payment it usually takes four to eight weeks, depending on the buyer search and the review of the sample.

Sources

  1. [1]EUR-Lex: “Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation)”
  2. [2]Federal Ministry of Justice (Germany): “§ 69b UrhG, authors in employment and service relationships”
  3. [3]Federal Ministry of Justice (Germany): “§ 257 HGB, retention of records”

This overview is no substitute for legal advice in the individual case. German statutes are cited in their original abbreviation.

What is your dataset worth?

Nine questions, no data needed, no upfront costs. You receive a first estimate.

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