Codicilla

Codicilla LLC ยท Mendham, New Jersey

Turn your company's records into a new source of revenue.

Codicilla buys or licenses company data for AI training: email, documents, chat, support tickets, CRM, code and work product. Operating companies keep their originals and license a cleaned copy. Closed or winding-down companies can sell the archive outright, with proceeds going to creditors and shareholders. We pay to remove personal data and secrets, and we sign as principal.

I have data to license or sell Check if your data is a fit I license training data

We are the buyer, not a broker. No broker percentage comes out of your share. See what company data has actually sold for.

Who we work with

  • Owners and CEOs

    Of operating companies in any industry that want a new source of revenue from records they already keep.

  • COOs and operations leaders

    Who know where the records live and what can be shared.

  • Boards of closing companies

    Of companies that are winding down or have closed, acting with board approval.

  • Assignees, trustees and receivers

    Fiduciaries holding a company's assets in an ABC, a bankruptcy or a receivership.

  • Acquirers

    Buyers holding stay-behind entities or archives the deal did not need.

Companies of every size, from a five-person firm to a large enterprise. Investors, counsel and advisers can introduce a company. We only contact the people you clear.

Two ways to work with us

Operating companies first. Closed companies too.

  • Operating companies, any industry

    License a cleaned, de-identified copy on a non-exclusive basis. You keep your originals and keep using your data. You earn a share of the license revenue, paid quarterly.

  • Winding down or closed

    Sell the archive outright or license it, with a board that can sign. Proceeds go to creditors and shareholders.

  • Assignments, bankruptcies and receiverships

    Where the assignee, trustee or receiver holds the assets and signs.

  • Acquired companies

    Stay-behind entities and archives the acquirer does not need.

  • About 100 deals in a yearfor closing startups' code and archives, typically $10,000 to $100,000 per company. Forbes, April 2026
  • 13 years of Slack, Jira and emailfrom one closed company sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Forbes, April 2026
  • AI labs are now direct buyersof data from dead startups, alongside the vendors that supply them. MIT Technology Review, October 2026

Reported activity for closed-company archives. Not an estimate or offer for any company's data. Operating companies are paid by revenue share only. Every figure we cite, with its source.

How it works

A chain of custody you can follow from signature to license.

Every dataset we license traces back to a party with authority to license or sell it. That record travels with the data.

  1. 01

    Authority

    Confirm who can sign: the owner or board of an operating company, or the board, assignee, trustee or receiver of a closed one. Check liens, IP and customer contracts.

  2. 02

    Acquisition

    Codicilla licenses the data directly, or buys a closed company's archive outright. One contract, one counterparty.

  3. 03

    Cleanup

    Remove personal data and secrets. Leave out regulated data. Screen open-source licenses and remove public duplicates.

  4. 04

    Data card

    Document source, rights, exclusions and measured results in one file.

  5. 05

    License

    License to AI labs and data vendors for training, with deletion and audit terms.

What we look at

The everyday record of how a company works.

We start from a list of the tools you use and rough volumes. No uploads and no system access at this stage.

  • Email and calendars

    Business email and meeting records. Personal mailboxes and sensitive folders are excluded.

    Often in Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.

  • Documents and project records

    Reports, proposals, procedures, plans, specs and the records of how projects ran.

    Often in shared drives, SharePoint, Notion or Confluence.

  • Team chat

    Channels where the work was discussed. Direct messages and private channels are excluded.

    Often in Slack or Teams.

  • Tickets and support

    Customer and internal tickets, with the full back and forth and how each one was resolved.

    Often in Zendesk, Jira or a help desk.

  • CRM and call transcripts

    Account notes and sales or service calls, with customer identities removed.

    Often in a CRM or a call recording tool.

  • Code, engineering files and media

    Repositories with history, CAD drawings and models, test results, and image, audio or video work product.

    Often in GitHub, a PDM system or a media library.

Tools are named only as examples of where records usually live. We have no integration with, or endorsement from, any of them.

For companies

Owners, CEOs and COOs, plus boards, assignees and trustees.

Your email, documents, tickets, chat and work product may have value as training data. An operating company licenses a cleaned copy and keeps its originals. A closing company can sell the archive outright. We do the cleanup on our side and pay the party with authority to sign.

  • Non-exclusive license by default for operating companies
  • Rights review done with you and your counsel
  • Personal data and secrets removed by us
  • Revenue share, reported and paid quarterly
How it works for companies

For buyers

AI labs and data vendors.

Real working data from companies across industries: the email, documents, tickets and conversations behind real work, and code with its history. Each dataset ships with a data card and a rights file.

  • Documented chain of title
  • PII and secrets removed, residual rate measured
  • Regulated data left out by default
  • Training-only licenses with deletion and audit terms
What we license

Principal, not agent

We are the buyer, not a broker. That changes who carries the risk.

Most services in this market list data and match it to a buyer. Codicilla licenses or acquires the data itself, pays for the cleanup, and then licenses the result. Companies get one counterparty and one contract. Buyers get one licensor who has seen every document in the chain.

That model only works if the rights are clear, so the rights review comes first, before any agreement.

Closing a company?

Cancelled accounts can take the archive with them.

Once a company stops paying for its tools, each provider deletes workspace data on its own schedule. Talk to us before you cancel, or export first and keep the files.

Google Workspace or Microsoft 365
Mailboxes, calendars and shared drives.
Slack or Teams
A workspace export of public channels.
Notion, Confluence or SharePoint
Full space exports, including page history where available.
Zendesk, Intercom or Jira
Ticket and issue exports with the full conversation.
Your CRM
Accounts, notes and activity history.
GitHub, GitLab or a PDM system
Code with full history, and engineering files.

Introduce a company

Know a company with records to license, or one that is closing?

Investors, counsel, accountants, assignees and trustees often know first. Introduce us to an owner who wants a new source of revenue, or to a company that is winding down before its tools are cancelled. We take it from there, keep you posted, and never contact anyone you have not cleared.

Make an introduction

What stays out

Some data stays out by default.

  • Health records
  • Payment card and bank account data
  • Data about children
  • Customer data held under NDA, unless the customer consents
  • Anything from a company that cannot show authority to sign
Read the full process

Start with a conversation.

Tell us what you have or what you need. Nothing moves until the rights are clear.

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