Lab build 03
Founderie

AI labs pay for company records. We work for the owner.

Slack, email, tickets, code and CRM: years of real work are now worth something to AI labs. Founderie values those records, makes sure they are cleared before anyone sees them, finds the buyers and runs the process. The owner keeps title and gets paid.

A Founderie valuation summary grading a company's email, Slack, tickets, CRM and code. Sample data.
Founderie, with sample data. Not a real company.
Status
Working with owners
Built for
Owners, trustees and PE operating partners
Origin
Grew out of our AI and data work for brands
Takes your records
Never
01

Buyers grade the ore and set the price

The public web
has been crawled.
AI labs
want years of real work: requests, replies, decisions.
That record
lives in Slack, email, tickets, code and CRM.
Marketplaces
work for both sides.
The owner
is the one missing from the table.

Our AI, workflow and data work for brands put us inside the systems where a company's working record lives. Then AI labs started paying for exactly that record. So we built Founderie to sit on the owner's side of the table, the same side we have always been on.

02

Years of real work, not samples

Messages
Messages

Email, chat and calls: who asked for what, what was decided and why. Slack, Teams, Gmail, Outlook.

Tickets and projects
Tickets and projects

The request, every reply, and how it was resolved. Zendesk, ServiceNow, Jira, Asana.

Code
Code

Repositories and their full history: commits, reviews and issues. GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket.

Documents
Documents

Docs, wikis, contracts and reports: the company's written memory. Drive, SharePoint, Confluence, Notion.

Business systems
Business systems

CRM, orders, ERP and accounting: the numbers behind every decision. Salesforce, HubSpot, NetSuite, QuickBooks.

Something else?

Call recordings, a file server, an old ERP. Tell us in the assay.

03

Nothing is shown until it's clean

01
Value

We grade what you have the way buyers will, before they do.

02
Clear

PII, secrets, NDAs, platform terms, consent and a provenance record signed by the owner. Done on your side, before any introduction.

03
Match buyers

We find the right buyers and run the process. You stay the owner of the records.

04
License

You license, you keep title. We are paid when the license closes, usually by the buyer.

A Founderie clearance checklist: personal data, secrets, contracts, platform terms, consent and provenance, all checked before release. Sample data.
And Founderie never takes possession of the records.
04

Owners, and the people who act for them

Owners
Founders and owners

You built the company and its records. You decide who licenses them, and you are the one paid.

Estates
Trustees, assignees and bankruptcy counsel

A closed company's records can still be worth something, as long as the systems are still live.

Portfolios
Private equity operating partners

Portfolio companies hold years of working records. They can license them without disrupting the business.

05

A value first, then a license

The five kinds of records that qualify, with licenses starting at $10K to $50K
The top of a Founderie assay slip, filled in as the owner answers six questions. Sample.
A value before buyers set one

Graded record by record, the way buyers will, before any introduction.

More than one buyer

Most owners license the same records to two or three buyers, each paying separately.

Usually no fee from you

The buyer pays our fee when a license closes, usually 4 to 8 weeks from the first call.

06

Why “Founderie”

Founderie mark
Founder, plus foundry: the place where ore is assayed and cast into something of value.

You built it. We cast its value. Every step, from the assay to the license, is run for the owner.

For owners

Years of records? Find out what they're worth.

Founderie was built in The Lab at Ambaum and runs as an Ambaum Labs company. Take the two-minute assay, or talk to us about building something like it for your business.

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