Somewhere near you: old code, written by people
ABURA connects the companies holding valuable data with the AI labs that need it. As a scout, you spot the opportunity in your own network. We handle everything after the introduction.
Licensed, human-made data, with the owner's agreement and the rights settled up front.
Code, drawings and records become an asset, whether the company is trading today or closed years ago.
You know who holds it. A few minutes and one message, and we take it from there.
Three kinds of company data are in demand, and companies that have closed often hold the best of it.
Written by people before 2023, with its history kept. COBOL, Rust, Go, Swift, MATLAB, C and C++ first.
Construction, infrastructure and manufacturing CAD, with every revision from first sketch to as built.
The procedures, tickets, decisions and conversations of a working business.
A one-minute registration opens the field guide and the lead check.
When someone mentions old code, drawings or records, run the guided check. It tells you whether the lead is worth a conversation.
With the owner's agreement, send the message the check writes for you. We speak with them in confidence and handle the rest.
How long the buyers we talk to expect this window to stay open.
Every stage of a company can qualify, including ones that stopped trading years ago.
You never touch the data. It stays with its owner throughout.
A sister company of ABURA values company data independently, so its owner can license it or use it as collateral, the way a bank lends against a house.
AI labs need data to train their models that the internet simply cannot provide. Much of it sits in ordinary companies, including many that no longer trade. Spot it, check it here in a few minutes, and pass it on.
AI labs have already learned from the public internet.
What they need now was never published: code written by people, drawings revised by engineers, the inner workings of real businesses.
It sits in companies you know. Some of them closed years ago.
How long the buyers we talk to expect this window to stay open.
Companies that stopped trading, even years ago, are often the strongest leads.
You never touch the data. It stays with its owner throughout.
When a company winds up, its code, drawings and records usually sit untouched on a server or in a backup. The founders have moved on, and nobody thinks of it as an asset. Buyers do. Every stage of a company's life can qualify, and each calls for a slightly different question.
Ask what history they keep, and who would sign off on a conversation.
Often the best moment. The data is intact and the people who understand it are still there.
Ask who holds the files now: the founders, a liquidator, or a backup somewhere.
Older can be better. Code written before 2023 is exactly what buyers want, if the archive survived.
For a founder who has moved on, or a liquidator closing the books, the data may be the last thing of value the company has. Most of them have never been asked about it.
Each comes from what buyers have asked us for directly, so the bar is theirs.
The industry it served does not matter. The language does, and so does the history kept alongside it.
Old code, written by people, is the hottest data in AI right now.
History like this is part of what buyers value: the code, and the record of people building it.
Buyers want the journey of a design as well as where it ended. Construction, infrastructure, manufacturing and industrial plant come first, along with the design imagery these firms produce in volume.
Buyers want every revision, the revision cloud included, as well as the final sheet.
The procedures, knowledge, projects, tickets, decisions and conversations of a working company. Everything is anonymised before anything leaves it.
Buyers want years of weeks like this, anonymised, so AI learns how work is really done.
Legal and accounting documents with every draft kept, from first version to signed.
Lab, field and specialist datasets and research archives that are not public.
Archives that have never been online, with clear rights over every file.
Customer records, transactions, pricing and product history, operations, designs. It is all company data, and most of it has never been valued. A sister company of ABURA values company data independently, so its owner can license it, borrow against it, or both.
To AI labs and the data platforms that supply them, on terms the owner agrees.
Once valued and insured, company data can be taken by a lender as collateral, the way a bank lends against a home.
A friend, client or old colleague mentions code, drawings or operational data sitting unused, often at a company that has closed.
A short guided check, one question at a time. It tells you whether the lead is worth a conversation. It never gives a price.
Once they are happy to be introduced, the check writes the message for you. Send it to whoever invited you.
We speak with the owner in confidence, confirm what they own and introduce it to the right buyers. A sample set is needed only at the point of close, and the owner decides at every step.
Share a company's name only once the owner is happy to be introduced. Until then, the check keeps the name off the message for you.
No files, logins or screenshots. The data stays with its owner from the first conversation to the last.
Value is settled later, with the owner and the buyer. A number given early becomes the number everyone remembers.
If the code or drawings were built for a client, the client may own them. For a closed company, ask who holds the rights now. It is the question that matters most.
Health records, biometrics, card details and children's data are never part of it. Everything else is anonymised before it moves.
Very often, yes. A closed company's code, drawings and records usually still exist with the founders, a liquidator or in a backup, and whoever holds the rights can still license them.
Yes. A sister company of ABURA values company data independently, so it can be licensed or used as collateral, much as a bank lends against a valued, insured house. Owners can start a preliminary valuation on the valuation page, which opens without registration.
No. Rough answers are fine, and almost every question in the check has a "not sure" option. We work out the detail with the owner.
Never. It stays with its owner. You pass on a short message, and that is all.
Nothing at the start. A sample set is needed only at the point of close, and the owner decides what goes into it.
AI labs and the data platforms that supply them. We introduce owners to them in confidence, and only with the owner's agreement.
Something like: "AI labs are looking for data that has never been published, and what your company built may be exactly that. Would you be open to a short, confidential conversation to see if it qualifies? Nothing is shared without your agreement." The check writes a version for each lead, matched to what they hold.
The buyers we talk to expect it to stay open for 9 to 18 months, so sooner is better.
Most companies have never had their data valued. A sister company of ABURA values company data independently, to international valuation standards, so its owner can license it, use it as collateral, or both.
A bank lends against a house because it has been valued and insured. Company data can work the same way.
A surveyor sets its value.
An insurer covers it.
A bank takes it as security for a mortgage.
Our sister company values it to international standards.
An insurance wrapper backs the valuation.
A lender can then take the data as security.
To AI labs and the data platforms that supply them. The owner keeps the data and agrees every term.
Raise finance against data the company already holds.
Independent by design. The valuation is carried out by our sister company, separately from ABURA, and is never priced off a sale. The owner decides what, if anything, is shared between the two.
Fifteen questions, about ten minutes. Rough answers are fine, and anything you would rather discuss on a call can be skipped.