Legal
- Matter files and advice notes
- Contract drafts and redlines
- Pleadings and case strategy
The UK and Europe’s data licensing partner
Decades of expertise.
Licensed to AI.
AI labs are paying for real expert work. We value your company’s records, make them safe to share, and run a competitive licence across the labs. No upfront cost.
- Licence, not sale
- Success fee only
- UK GDPR and EU AI Act ready
Firms and owners
Earn from records you already hold.
Long-established firms are sitting on years of expert work that AI labs will pay to license.
Value your archive
Insolvency practitioners
Realise the data estate, lawfully.
Data is often the last asset left unrealised. We value it and sell it before the servers are switched off.
For administrators
AI labs
Cleared expert data from the UK and Europe.
Long-running professional records with documented origins and anonymisation, licensed so they can be cited in your training-data disclosures.
For AI labs
Why now
The open web is used up.
Expert work isn’t.
Labs have already trained on most of the public internet. What they need now is the knowledge that never went online, kept in the archives of firms that have been doing the work for decades.
~$10M
Google's winning bid for the Spirit Airlines records in bankruptcy.
MIT Technology Review, Oct 20263,003
UK companies with 10+ years of filings and 50+ staff in data-rich sectors.
Vatorum analysis of Companies House data, Nov 2026Why the UK and Europe
Others are looking elsewhere.
The deepest archives are here.
01
Older firms
Many UK and European firms have been trading for decades, some for over a century. That is decades of expert records, not three years of a start-up's Slack.
02
Written in English
English is the working language of UK and Irish business and of many firms across Europe. It is also the language AI labs most want to train on.
03
Every heavy industry
Insurance, law, accounting, engineering, shipping, energy, healthcare and manufacturing. These records cover how real industries actually work.
04
Largely untapped
US data brokers mostly buy from failed American start-ups. Almost no one is approaching established firms on this side of the Atlantic.
What labs want
Records with real expertise in them.
The most valuable data covers years of work, was written by experts and is specific to its field. We work across all the heavy industries.
Accounting & audit
- Audit workpapers
- Tax computations and memos
- Client advisory reports
Insurance & finance
- Claims files and loss reports
- Underwriting rationale
- Credit and risk memos
Engineering & construction
- Design calculations
- Drawings and specifications
- Site and inspection reports
Software
- Private code and commit history
- Tickets linked to fixes
- Support conversations
Healthcare
- Clinical pathways and protocols
- De-identified case notes
- Operational and audit records
Value check
What is your archive worth?
Get an indicative range in under a minute, in pounds or euros. We don’t need a login or any data.
Indicative licence value
£108k – £270k
System coverage 60%
- Expert staff
- 150
- Years of records
- 12
- Licence
- Non-exclusive
This is an illustrative range, not an offer. Actual value depends on data quality, buyer demand and what can lawfully be included.
How it works
From archive to licence, in six steps.
We handle the valuation, the anonymisation partners, the buyers and the contracts. You approve every step.
- 01
Assess
A value range from your sector, headcount and years of records. We only look at counts and dates, never file contents.
- 02
Anonymise
Specialist partners remove personal and client details on your own systems, tested against the ICO's motivated-intruder standard.
- 03
Clear
Privileged and client-restricted material is excluded. You sign off on the final scope.
- 04
Compete
We take an anonymous dataset profile to several AI labs at once, so they bid against each other.
- 05
License
You license your data rather than sell it. Use is limited by time and purpose, with audit rights and deletion at term end.
- 06
Report
You get an anonymisation report, a provenance pack and the licence chain, ready for your auditors and the buyer's regulators.
Anonymisation
The expertise stays.
The identities go.
Labs want the reasoning: how a risk was judged, how a clause was argued, how a fault was traced. They don’t need to know who was involved. Use the switch to see an example.
File note, [DATE: Q1 2019]. Call with [PERSON_1], FD of [CLIENT_A] ([EMAIL]). Client wants to terminate the supply agreement early. Clause 14.2 requires 90 days' notice, but the supplier's repeated late deliveries arguably amount to a repudiatory breach. Advised the client to serve notice reserving its rights rather than terminate immediately, and to quantify losses (est. [£250k–£500k]). Next step: draft letter for [PERSON_2] to review.
Reasoning keptIdentity removedAmounts bandedExample only, with invented details
A better deal
Licensed under UK and EU law.
Not sold off to a single US buyer.
| Term | Vatorum | Typical US data broker |
|---|---|---|
| What the buyer gets | A licence limited by time and purpose | Often perpetual, sublicensable rights |
| Buyers | Several labs compete for the dataset | Frequently a single buyer |
| Cost to you | Success fee from proceeds only | Varies; sometimes none |
| Law and currency | English law; GBP and EUR | US law; USD |
| Anonymisation | ICO motivated-intruder test, written report | “We strip names” |
| Professional duties | Privilege and client-confidentiality screen | Rarely addressed |
| Offers | No expiring offers or countdowns | 48-hour and 14-day deadlines are common |
For administrators and liquidators
The data estate is an asset.
Realise it lawfully.
Data is often the last asset left unrealised in an estate. We value it, clear it under UK GDPR and place it with competing buyers before the systems are switched off. Proceeds go to the estate.
- Independent valuation of data assets
- Documented legal basis and anonymisation
- Buyers lined up within weeks, not months
For AI labs
UK and European expert data.
Fully documented.
Long-running professional records from established firms, anonymised to the ICO standard and licensed with a clear chain of rights. Each dataset comes with what you need for your EU AI Act training-data summary.
- Provenance pack and licence chain
- Written anonymisation report
- Sector-specific records covering many years
Safeguards
Your data stays in your control.
We never hold raw data
Data is prepared on your systems or by a partner you appoint. We only ever see a profile of it.
Anonymised to ICO standard
Data is tested for whether a motivated person could re-identify anyone, and you receive a written report.
Privilege screened
Legally privileged and client-restricted material is excluded before scoping.
Licensed, not sold
Use is limited by time and purpose. Resale is barred and data is deleted at the end of the term.
You approve every step
No dataset, buyer or price goes ahead without your written sign-off.
Built for UK and EU law
UK GDPR, the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 and the EU AI Act are designed in from the start.
Questions
Straight answers.
What does it cost?
Nothing upfront. We take a success fee from the licence proceeds. If no deal closes, you owe us nothing.
Are we selling our data?
No. You grant a licence that is limited by time and purpose. You keep ownership, resale is barred, and the buyer must delete the data when the term ends.
What about client confidentiality and legal privilege?
Client-identifying details are removed, privileged material is screened out, and records covered by restrictive client terms are excluded. We go through this with your risk or compliance lead before anything is scoped.
What about our employees' personal data?
Personal data is removed or pseudonymised before licensing, tested against the ICO's anonymisation guidance. Where a lawful basis is needed, we document it with you.
Can an administrator or liquidator license a company's data?
Often yes, provided it is done lawfully. The Insolvency Service has warned practitioners about unlawful data sales, which is why our process starts with anonymisation and a documented legal basis.
How long does it take?
Usually a few weeks from value check to offers, depending on how quickly anonymisation can run on your systems.
Who are the buyers?
AI labs and specialist data buyers we have vetted. You see who they are and approve them before anything is signed.
Confidential assessment
Find out what your records are worth.
A 30-minute call. No data changes hands and there’s no obligation. You leave with an indicative range and a clear view of what could be licensed.