For owners, estates and their advisers
A company's records can be licensed to AI developers. FirmLedge runs the sale.
AI developers now pay to license real companies' de-identified records, email and documents, including those of companies that have closed. FirmLedge works out what survives and who controls it, describes the records to several buyers without naming the company, and shows the owner or estate every proposal before anything is decided.
The assessment needs no files and is not a valuation or an offer. Founded by Andrew Gallagher in Chicago. About
Owners, estates and advisers
I hold or administer a company's records.
- For owners of companies that are closing, closed or sold, and operating companies case by case.
- For estates: trustees, receivers, assignees, liquidating trustees and their counsel, with a two-minute fit check.
AI developers and data research companies
I buy records.
Records from companies whose owner or estate has approved the approach, described to you first without the company's name, with approvals and de-identification coordinated with the source's advisers.
How a sale runs
Four stages, and nothing moves without your approval.
The same order for an owner and an estate, with any court, lender or creditor approval your counsel says applies.
01
Control and systems
What survives, and who can authorize a license. No files first.
02
Assessment and unnamed profile
The assessment, then an unnamed profile to buyers.
03
Proposals side by side
Each in one format, with our compensation disclosed.
04
Decision, de-identification, license
You decide; de-identification precedes approved use.
The first step
A one-page records assessment, prepared for you.
For an estate, we prepare it from the docket, notices and public filings; for a company outside a court process, from your description. It sets out what the record shows, what the records likely include, who is asking for them, how a license would run, what stays out and who pays FirmLedge.
It is prepared at no charge. It is not a valuation and not an offer, and it is for the file either way. You get an initial reply within two business days, and the assessment within five business days of a description we can work from, or a note on what is missing.
| System | Records | Connection to check |
|---|---|---|
| Quoting | RFQs and quotes | Quotes to work orders |
| ERP | Jobs and purchasing | Work orders to costs |
| Accounting | Invoices and ledgers | Invoices to payments |
| Email and files | Operating history | Decisions to outcomes |
What it covers
- 01What the record shows
- 02What the records likely include
- 03Who is asking for records like these
- 04How a license would run, and your part
- 05What stays out from the start
- 06Who pays FirmLedge
Outline only. No company files are needed for the assessment. A fictional example in full.
Who runs it
Andrew Gallagher, founder.
Andrew worked in investment banking at Wells Fargo Securities and in private equity at SNH Capital Partners, where much of the work was organizing company records, reconciling figures and understanding what the numbers meant.
He leads each matter himself, from the first conversation through release approval.
Contact
Start with a short note.
Keep the first note non-confidential: no files, financial figures, logins or customer names.