Briggs AnalyticsBefore the servers go dark, get paid for what you built.
Buyers pay $10,000 to $300,000 for a shut-down company's code, project history and records. Founders close in two to four weeks because one person decides.
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What buyers publish for a closed company's code and records.
Typical time from first call to signed deal.
No 30-person minimum. The code and the history are what count.
Most founders delete the repo, let the Slack export expire, and walk away with nothing. The records of how the product was built are the part a buyer wants most: the code with its full history, the tickets, the design docs, the threads where decisions got made.
Several buyers specialize in exactly this. One prices legacy code at $10K to $100K and full records up to $1M. Another publishes $10K to $100K for startup archives. A wind-down firm's partners pay $10K to $100K per closed company. We know which one wants yours and introduce you the same day.
Speed matters here more than anywhere else. Every one of these buyers pays the first introduction and nobody else. If you are winding down this month, the two-minute check is the first thing to do, before the data is gone. See every buyer type and what it publishes →
What goes in. What never does.
Buyers want
- Support tickets and how they got resolved
- Job records, estimates, work orders, change orders
- Code with its full history
- Internal threads about getting the work done
- Month-end close, reconciliations, underwriting files
- Contracts and the redlines behind them
Never included
Customer names and contact listsCard numbers, bank details, social security numbersHealth recordsAnything a customer contract says you cannot shareAnything you have not personally approved
Three steps.
You do one.
- 1Tell us about the company
Free. Two minutes. People, years, which systems you run on. Customer names never go in.
- 2We make the introduction
To the buyer that pays the most for your kind of records. Same day.
- 3You approve, they pay
You decide what is in and what is out. The fastest buyer pays in seven days.
Questions owners ask.
We already shut down. Is it too late?
Not if the code and the exports still exist. Buyers have closed on companies that shut a year earlier. If you still have the GitHub org, the Slack export, or the Jira backup, there is something to license.
Do investors or the board need to sign off?
Usually the entity still owns the records and whoever has signing authority can license them. If the company was sold or assigned to an assignee for the benefit of creditors, the buyer will ask who holds the rights. We flag this on the call.
What if contractors wrote some of the code?
Buyers will ask whether contractors signed over their work. Most did. If some did not, that code is left out and the rest is still licensable.
How fast is the money?
Two to four weeks from first call to signed deal is typical for shut-down companies. The buyer pays on signing or on acceptance of the records, depending on the buyer.
Some buyers pay in seven days.
First introduction wins. Find out where you stand.
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