The wrong comparison
$500,000 vs $325,000
The arrangement
We get paid when you do
No successful license? No success fee. Same event. Same side of the table.
No successful license? No success fee.
Jottings invests the people, software, and expertise required to identify and prepare qualifying operational data. When we successfully license an asset, our fee comes from the transaction proceeds.
- You don't need a data team.
- You don't need to prepare the corpus yourself.
- You don't need to know what AI buyers want.
Illustrative
What a $500,000 license looks like
Without Jottings, most companies don't have a buyer-ready AI dataset. We help discover the opportunity, create missing operational documentation, prepare and structure the underlying data, manage diligence, find buyers, and execute the transaction. That is why the fee exists.
Success fees typically land between 15% and 40%.
The statement uses 35% as a worked example. Exact fee is deal-specific and agreed in writing before any work starts. Not a quote.
Settlement statement
35% example
- AI buyer licenses dataset
- $500,000
- Jottings success fee · 35% example
- $175,000
Company receives
$325,000
At 15%, you keep $425,000. At 40%, you keep $300,000.
The real comparison
$0 vs $325,000
The percentage is negotiated. The comparison is not. Compare $0 to a check, not the gross versus your net.
How the money can arrive
Most deals
Standard payout
The buyer pays under the negotiated terms. After acceptance there is usually a net-payment period. You receive your proceeds when that payment settles.
Faster cash
Accelerated payout
Once the dataset is accepted and the receivable is set, a financing partner can advance most of your proceeds instead of waiting on the buyer's payment period. You take a smaller check now. The difference is the cost of getting paid sooner.
- Seller's normal net
- $325,000 in ~60 days
- Accelerated offer
- $305,000 now
- Cost of cash
- $20,000
If the work continues
Recurring licenses
Some deals are not one check. If the business keeps producing the same kind of work, the license can keep producing: the historical corpus first, then incremental corpora, then refresh fees.
- Historical corpus
- $500,000
- Annual incremental corpus
- $200,000 / year
- Quarterly telemetry refresh
- $50,000 / quarter
What can these deals look like?
Observational ranges. Not a quote. Most businesses will not qualify. The ones that do still need the work packaged.
$100K–$250K
Specialized histories
Specialized operational histories with meaningful workflow volume.
$250K–$750K
Deep multi-year sets
Deep multi-year operational datasets spanning systems, decisions, and outcomes.
$1M+
Rare and differentiated
Highly differentiated proprietary workflows, massive scale, expert knowledge, or unusually valuable environments.
A real one
$173,163 for how the company operates every day.
Workflows, processes, the record of running the business. We packaged it, took out customer names and personal details, and licensed it. The owner kept the underlying records. Jottings ran the buyer process.
- What they licensed
- Daily operations
- Paid to the owner
- $173,163
- Customer names included
- No
- Owner keeps
- The underlying records
Curious whether any of your history even qualifies? Two minutes.
Two minutes to see if it is even a conversation. For qualifying companies, we get paid when you do.