Questions owners ask

We don’t advise on that. Whether a company may license its records, and on what terms, depends on its own contracts and the law where it operates. Each buyer runs its own review, and your own lawyer should advise you before you sign anything. Nothing on this site is legal advice.

No. The valuation uses only your answers. We never ask for system access, logins, tokens, exports or sample files at this stage.

It is indicative. It starts from buyers’ published price ranges, set well inside them, and adjusts for your years of records, the systems that hold them, how much is in English, business age and your answer on who owns client work. The high end is capped at $1M. Buyers set their own price after their own review, and it can be lower, higher or nothing at all.

No. Many companies never get an offer. One code marketplace reports that only a low single-digit share of listed codebases find a buyer. We tell you plainly when we think a buyer is unlikely.

We don’t advise on what your contracts allow. Many companies also hold records about their own operations: sales, purchasing, accounting, staffing of projects, internal email. The valuation asks one factual question, who owns the records of work you do for clients under your contracts, because the answer changes the range more than anything else. What can be included is assessed by the buyer in its own review and by your own lawyer.

Personal data, private messages, HR records and credentials are removed before any transfer, and people are replaced with consistent pseudonyms. See the data-handling pledge for the full list.

AI labs, training-data vendors and RL-environment builders that publicly license company data. We have no partnership with any of them; we introduce companies that fit their published criteria, and only companies that agreed to be introduced. Before each introduction we tell you which buyer it is, and we introduce you only with your OK to that specific buyer.

If a buyer licenses your records, Quiet Asset may receive a referral fee from that buyer. It is paid by the buyer, not deducted from your offer, and you never pay us. TODO(owner): confirm the fee model with a lawyer. Whatever it is, you will see it in writing before any introduction.

The buyer’s contract sets this, and you can negotiate it with your own lawyer. Published programmes include both non-exclusive and exclusive licences; exclusive deals pay more but limit what else you can do with the same records.

Most buyers publish a minimum of 20 to 40 staff. You can still request a valuation, and we will tell you honestly if we see a route.

Most established companies: software and digital agencies, accounting and bookkeeping, financial advisory (not insurance), consulting and professional services, marketing and media, engineering, architecture and construction, manufacturing, logistics and freight, wholesale and distribution, real estate and property management, field services, e-commerce and retail, and nonprofits.

For now we don’t take on medical, dental or healthcare companies, insurance, staffing and recruitment agencies, title and escrow, or law firms. Their records are mostly other people’s protected information (patients, policyholders, candidates, consumers) or covered by client privilege. If you fill in the form anyway, we keep your answers but don’t show a range or make introductions. This is our own policy, not legal advice.

No. Email, documents, chat, CRM, accounting, project tools, call recordings and industry systems all count. Code hosting is one optional kind of system among the others.