Three times a week: what buyers pay, how deals work, and how to stay on the right side of UK data law. Every claim is sourced.
DSIT's 2025 call for evidence asked how brokers keep data away from hostile actors. What it covered, and the checks every broker should run now.
A round-up of 40 posts: the prices, the rules and the patterns that matter most for sellers.
Special category data, criminal records, children's data and more: what to exclude before any data deal.
Academic publishers were among the first to license archives at scale. Their deals show the value of curated, rights-clear content.
Spirit Airlines' archive attracted a reported $10m bid in its bankruptcy, subject to court approval. The lessons for UK estates.
From frontier labs to evaluation firms: who pays, what they want, and how they differ.
A week-by-week plan to get company records ready for AI licensing buyers: inventory, rights check, de-identification and outreach.
In our model, history moves value as much as size does. Here's how the history score builds.
Ten clauses to look for, from use limits to deletion certificates, before you sign anything.
Ownership, secrets, licences and history: the due-diligence list for selling a codebase to AI developers.
A practical checklist for office holders: preserve, assess, de-identify and realise, while keeping the file clean.
Your clients may be sitting on an asset they've never valued. A simple way to raise it, and the rules on referral fees.
Some data is priced per item. What per-unit deals reveal about how buyers value scale and quality.
The ICO's benchmark for whether de-identified data is safe: a determined, competent person with no special access.
Buyers want to see samples before paying. Here's how to show them enough without giving data away.
A pipeline without outcomes is a log. With reasons attached, it's training data for sales agents.
The UK's 2025 data law reforms, in brief: recognised legitimate interests, complaints duties and more.
The 2025 authors' settlement with Anthropic put a price on unlicensed training material. Buyers have noticed.
Since August 2025, general-purpose AI providers must publish a summary of training content. Why that favours licensed data.
Years of resolved tickets are a near-perfect training set for service agents. What makes them valuable.
The most-cited price point in AI content licensing, where it came from, and how to use it.
Analysts agree on the direction if not the exact size. What the growth means for sellers.
The money flowing into AI is why data has a price. The UK figures, and where they go.
Blanking names out makes text hard to learn from. Consistent stand-ins keep the meaning, and research backs it.
The lawful basis most data deals rely on, broken into purpose, necessity and balancing.
Closure platforms report AI buyers paying for defunct companies' chat, code and email. What sets the price.
Limited companies and LLPs can be emailed without prior consent; sole traders and most partnerships can't. The rules explained.
Indicative ranges by company size, anchored on public deals, and why the range is so wide.
Scale, history, breadth, rights and buyer fit: how buyers price a company archive, and how to improve each.
Stock libraries and academic publishers were early winners. What their numbers tell other data owners.
A little-known part of the Data Protection Act 2018 makes reversing de-identification an offence. Here's how it protects data deals.
Studies have extracted names and phone numbers word-for-word from trained models. That's why de-identification must happen before transfer.
An exclusive deal can feel bigger today and earn less over time. How to think about exclusivity.
Stock and equipment sell for pennies. A well-preserved archive can raise real money for creditors, if it's handled right.
Over 25,000 companies went insolvent in England and Wales in 2023. Their records are an overlooked asset for creditors.
Support tickets and code lead; finance records trail. How each system weighs in our valuation model.
From $1m a year to $250m over five: the spread of publisher deals, and what sets the price.
Swapping names for codes doesn't take data outside UK GDPR. Here's the identifiability spectrum the ICO uses.
Licensing your records to AI developers, explained in five steps: what's sold, who buys it, and what you keep.
Reddit's 2024 IPO filing put a number on AI data licensing for the first time. Here's what it means for everyone else.
Researchers expect AI developers to use up good public text within years. That's why private business records are becoming valuable.
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