Keep the communications systems in the package, offer exclusivity, and lead with white-collar headcount
Buyers named the price drivers on the record in October 2026: micro1's CRO says that without Slack, CRM or email records the rest of a corpus is worth less; Mode.Inc's CEO says value rises with the number of white-collar employees; a codebase a rival lab already holds draws less demand; law and accounting see the strongest demand. Surge AI adds that one company's Slack with varied, deep conversations can be worth more than another's Slack, email and calendars combined.
Dated 13 Oct 2026Source checked 15 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: indicative
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“If a company won't sell its Slack, customer relationship management, or email records, the rest of the corpus is less valuable.”
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- Offers to small operating businesses for their internal records (email, Slack, documents), from unnamed AI-data buyers and brokers
- Refuse a 48-hour deadline and collect several quotes, because buyers price on different theses
- Show clear title to the records, because buyers have been offered stolen archives
- A closed crypto startup's code base (Keelan Miskell's company, about two and a half years of work), sold through SimpleClosure's Asset Hub
- The same closed crypto startup's workspace data (Google, Notion, Figma and Slack), sale through SimpleClosure pending
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