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The arrangement

We get paid when you do

No successful license? No success fee. Same event. Same side of the table.

No successful license? No success fee.

License & Data Bureau invests the people, software, and expertise required to identify and prepare qualifying operational data. When we successfully license an asset, our fee comes from the transaction proceeds.

  • You don't need a data team.
  • You don't need to prepare the corpus yourself.
  • You don't need to know what AI buyers want.
Illustrative

What a $500,000 license looks like

Most companies don't have a buyer-ready AI dataset. LDB finds the opportunity, builds the missing operational documentation, prepares and structures the data, runs diligence, finds the buyer, and closes the transaction. That is why the fee exists.

Success fees run 15% to 40%.

This walkthrough uses 35% to show the math. Your fee is set in writing before any work starts. Not a quote.

Settlement statement35% example
AI buyer licenses dataset$500,000
LDB success fee · 35% example$175,000
Company receives$325,000

At 15% you keep $425,000. At 40% you keep $300,000.

How the money can arrive

Most deals

Standard payout

The buyer pays under the negotiated terms. After acceptance there is usually a net-payment period. You receive your proceeds when that payment settles.

Faster cash

Accelerated payout

Once the dataset is accepted and the receivable is set, a financing partner can advance most of your proceeds instead of waiting on the buyer's payment period. You take a smaller check now. The difference is the cost of getting paid sooner.

Seller's normal net$325,000 in ~60 days
Accelerated offer$305,000 now
Cost of cash$20,000
If the work continues

Recurring licenses

Some deals are not one check. If the business keeps producing the same kind of work, the license can keep producing: the historical corpus first, then incremental corpora, then refresh fees.

Historical corpus$500,000
Annual incremental corpus$200,000 / year
Quarterly telemetry refresh$50,000 / quarter

What can these deals look like?

Observational ranges. Not a quote. Most businesses will not qualify. The ones that do still need the work packaged.

Recent closed dealPaid
Paid to the owner (after fee)
$173,163

Daily operational workflows and routing decisions, packaged by us. Customer names left out.

WORKFLOWSPROCESSESDECISIONS
What they licensedStandard operating procedures
Paid to the owner$173,163
Customer names includedNo
Underlying dataOwner retains
Buyer receivedApproved package only
$100K–$250K

Specialized histories

Specialized operational histories with meaningful workflow volume.

$250K–$750K

Deep multi-year sets

Deep multi-year operational datasets spanning systems, decisions, and outcomes.

$1M+

Rare and differentiated

Highly differentiated proprietary workflows, massive scale, expert knowledge, or unusually valuable environments.

Curious whether any of your history even qualifies? Two minutes.

See what your data could be worthHow the deal works
Two minutes to see if it is even a conversation. For qualifying companies, we get paid when you do.