The deal, before you are asked for anything

You license your archive to us, non-exclusively. It costs you nothing at any stage, you keep ownership and the right to license elsewhere, and you are paid a signing amount, a share of what the buyer pays, and a floor that falls due on a fixed date whether or not a buyer ever pays.

Who you deal with

Artemis Data Co is the counterparty. You license to us, we license on to a buyer. No marketplace, no listing, no auction, and you never speak to a buyer.

What it is

A licence, not a sale. You keep ownership of the archive and every copy of it, and you keep using it in your own business.

Exclusivity

None by default. You keep the right to license the same records to somebody else. A buyer who wants a period of exclusivity is buying something real and pays for it as its own line, with the months and the figure written down before you agree. Why non-exclusive is usually the better deal.

What it costs you

Nothing, at any stage. No fee, no commission, no retainer, no success fee out of your side. We pay for de-identification, validation, storage, delivery and the whole buyer process.

What you get paid

Three figures, all of them written in Schedule B and nowhere else. An amount on signature. A share of what the buyer pays, within ten business days of the money clearing. And a floor: a named amount that falls due on a named date whether or not any buyer ever pays.

The part to take advice on

Between signature and that floor date, the main payment depends on a buyer paying us. If a buyer pays late you are paid late. If no buyer pays at all you get the signing amount and the floor and nothing else. It is written as a condition rather than a deadline, and the share is larger because you are carrying that risk instead of us. Read it twice.

What we owe you in writing

Notice within ten business days when we are paid and when a buyer misses a payment, and a statement every quarter until you are paid in full. We cannot release a buyer, discount, defer, take shares instead of cash or settle below a floor in Schedule B without asking you first.

What you do

Fill in an inventory, make three decisions, and give access to the systems being licensed. You also write the list of people and organisations named inside the archive, because guessing at it is how a clean-up misses the thing that mattered.

How your name is handled

An asset is marketed under a codename. Your name, your town and your people do not reach a buyer before a mutual non-disclosure agreement is signed. One asset goes to one buyer at a time, with twenty four hours on the answer.

Who qualifies

Twenty people or more, three years of records or more, United States, Canada or United Kingdom. Operating or wound down, both work.

Refused outright

Substance use and behavioral health treatment records including employee assistance files, HIV records, medical and clinical records about any person, privileged client files, classified and export-controlled material, anything under a litigation hold, and anything a customer owns rather than you. Refusals, not discounts. What you can and cannot license.

The number

The estimator takes four answers and gives a range in about a minute. It is indicative and it is not an offer. A figure anybody will stand behind comes after an inventory, because nobody sensible prices a corpus they have not seen. What moves it up and down.

A summary, with no legal effect. The signed agreement governs. Take it to your own lawyer.