No successful license? No success fee. Same event. Same side of the table.
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.
Success fees are typically 20–30%, paid only from proceeds. Every deal: we find the buyers, negotiate the terms and do the prep. We recommend the fee from what you told us about your records, show you why, and agree it in writing before any work starts. On revenue-share deals, the fee applies to each payout you receive from that deal, renewals included.
We find the buyers, get you the best deal and terms, and do the data preparation for you.
YouYou give us access and answers.
We run the whole deal: buyers, data preparation, diligence, the contract, delivery and renewals.
YouYou approve and sign.
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, and how much of that work your records need sets where in the range it lands.
Success fees are typically 20–30%, set from your intake.
The statement uses 20% as a worked example. The exact fee is agreed in writing before any work starts. Not a quote.
At 30%, you keep $350,000.
$500,000 vs $400,000
$0 vs $400,000
Whatever the fee, the comparison does not change. Compare $0 to a check, not the gross versus your net.
The buyer pays under the negotiated terms. After acceptance there is usually a net-payment period. You receive your proceeds when that payment settles.
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.
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.
Observational ranges. Not a quote. Most businesses will not qualify. The ones that do still need the work packaged.
Specialized operational histories with meaningful workflow volume.
Deep multi-year operational datasets spanning systems, decisions, and outcomes.
Highly differentiated proprietary workflows, massive scale, expert knowledge, or unusually valuable environments.
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.
By now you've probably seen the pitches. Sell your company data to AI. Upload your files here. Earn up to some big number. Most of them leave the hard part to you. We licensed our own company's operational history first, so we know what the hard part is. Then we do it for you.
A pitch from the buying side of the table.
We went through it as the seller, for our own business. We know where it gets hard.
Vague demand and an "up to" number, with no buyer behind it.
We talk to the buyers directly. We know who is actually buying, what they pay for, and which offers are noise.
An upload portal and a checklist. You sort, scrub, and label it yourself.
We do the homework: inventory, legal and privacy checks, missing SOPs, packaging. You give us access and answers.
It ends once your files are in. The contract and diligence are yours to figure out.
We stay through diligence, the contract, the transfer, and the payment.
A flat price set by the buyer. Take it or leave it.
We work for you, not the buyer. We get paid when you get paid.
We don't give you homework. We do the homework, and we stay until you're paid.
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.