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10 records were read from this source, dated 16 Apr 2026 to 11 Oct 2026.

Its permanent copy in the Wayback Machine, 6 Oct 2026

Last checked 14 Oct 2026

What was read from it

Records read from this source
Record	Kind	As stated	Dated
Spirit Airlines' corporate records archive, micro1's late competing proposal after the auction (in-house de-identification)	Price observation	$12.5 million per company archive (unsigned proposal)	14 Sep 2026
Thirteen years of a closed company's Slack, tickets, email and drives (cielo24)	Price observation	Hundreds of thousands of dollars per archive	16 Apr 2026
A shut-down startup's archive (SimpleClosure's first deals)	Price observation	$10K to $100K per company	16 Apr 2026
A failed startup's codebase	Price observation	Tens of thousands of dollars per codebase	14 Sep 2026
Failed startups (codebases) to Turing: Five to ten failed-startup codebases bought for AI training data.	Licensing deal	Five to ten codebases bought	14 Sep 2026
micro1 and unnamed sellers: transaction, company data (unspecified)	Market record	more than 50 data transactions in the preceding 45 days	14 Sep 2026
Turing and five to ten failed startups (unnamed): transaction, source code (failed-startup codebases)	Market record	average in the tens of thousands of dollars	14 Sep 2026
Run a competitive process, not a bilateral talk	Negotiation lever	In the Spirit Airlines records auction three qualified bidders took Google's $5.0M…	14 Sep 2026
Headline ceilings are not what deals pay	Negotiation lever	SimpleClosure's test marketplace recovered about $1M across nearly 100 deals (about $10K…	11 Oct 2026
In a privacy-sensitive sale, structure beats a higher late price	Negotiation lever	micro1's $12.5M proposal (25% above Google's $10M) has not displaced Google two months…	5 Oct 2026

Spirit Airlines' corporate records archive, micro1's late competing proposal after the auction (in-house de-identification)
Kind
Price observation
As stated
$12.5 million per company archive (unsigned proposal)
Dated
14 Sep 2026
Thirteen years of a closed company's Slack, tickets, email and drives (cielo24)
Kind
Price observation
As stated
Hundreds of thousands of dollars per archive
Dated
16 Apr 2026
A shut-down startup's archive (SimpleClosure's first deals)
Kind
Price observation
As stated
$10K to $100K per company
Dated
16 Apr 2026
A failed startup's codebase
Kind
Price observation
As stated
Tens of thousands of dollars per codebase
Dated
14 Sep 2026
Failed startups (codebases) to Turing: Five to ten failed-startup codebases bought for AI training data.
Kind
Licensing deal
As stated
Five to ten codebases bought
Dated
14 Sep 2026
micro1 and unnamed sellers: transaction, company data (unspecified)
Kind
Market record
As stated
more than 50 data transactions in the preceding 45 days
Dated
14 Sep 2026
Turing and five to ten failed startups (unnamed): transaction, source code (failed-startup codebases)
Kind
Market record
As stated
average in the tens of thousands of dollars
Dated
14 Sep 2026
Run a competitive process, not a bilateral talk
Kind
Negotiation lever
As stated
In the Spirit Airlines records auction three qualified bidders took Google's $5.0M…
Dated
14 Sep 2026
Headline ceilings are not what deals pay
Kind
Negotiation lever
As stated
SimpleClosure's test marketplace recovered about $1M across nearly 100 deals (about $10K…
Dated
11 Oct 2026
In a privacy-sensitive sale, structure beats a higher late price
Kind
Negotiation lever
As stated
micro1's $12.5M proposal (25% above Google's $10M) has not displaced Google two months…
Dated
5 Oct 2026

Figures it feeds

$12.5MHighest public offer for one company's archive
$12.5MMicro1's late offer for Spirit Airlines' records
2.5xHow far competition moved the price of Spirit Airlines' records
$7.5MHow much more the last offer for Spirit Airlines' records was than the first
2,500xHow far the highest public price for one company's archive is above the baseline for one graded code repository
$1,579 per repositorySource code, sales that happened, per repository
$28.3K per companyCompany records, sales that happened, per company
$26,000The smallest sale we take on
$74,000 to $590,000The valuation tool's range for its starting company's records
0%How much the valuation tool raises a company's records when the work is traceable end to end
0%How much the valuation tool raises a company's records in a specialised trade
81%How much the valuation tool lowers a company's records when the company is closed and its files loose