Turn overlooked business information into potential value

Most businesses hold more usable information than their balance sheet shows.

Manuals, procedures, training material, product documentation and structured records build up over years of operating. When a company is sold, restructured or wound down, that material is usually left out of the process. Inside a business that is still trading, it often sits unused.

OnlyData identifies that information, assesses whether it can lawfully be sold or licensed, and prepares it so a buyer or licensee can use it with confidence. In some situations we acquire the assets ourselves. In others we structure a sale or licence on behalf of the owner or the estate.

For owners of operating businesses, the same work answers a simpler question: whether information you already hold could become an additional revenue stream, without disrupting the business or exposing anything you would rather keep private.

The material is rarely glamorous. It is the written-down working knowledge of a business, and that is precisely what makes it useful to someone else.

Illustrative schedule of information assets

Item	Asset	Typically held as	Potential use
1	Technical manuals and engineering documentation	Document libraries, maintenance records, drawings and notes	Technical reference and training material
2	Training materials and courseware	Course decks, assessments, scripts and transcripts	Instructional datasets
3	Product documentation and specifications	Catalogues, specification sheets, release notes	Product knowledge
4	Standard operating procedures and process documentation	Controlled documents, work instructions, checklists	Process and workflow data
5	Taxonomies, classifications and structured knowledge	Category trees, glossaries, naming and coding schemes	Structured reference data
6	Internal knowledge bases and customer-service knowledge	Wiki exports, help-centre articles, resolution playbooks	Support and troubleshooting datasets
7	Archived operational records	Reports, logs, inspection and quality records	Historical operational datasets
8	Historical business datasets	Pricing, demand, performance and planning tables	Structured time series

Illustrative only. Whether any item can be sold or licensed depends on ownership, confidentiality, privacy and contractual review in the specific case. OnlyData does not trade in personal data, and personal information is removed or excluded before material is prepared.

Business owners and operators

You hold years of documented process and product knowledge. We help you find out whether some of it could become an additional revenue stream, without disrupting the business.

Liquidators and insolvency practitioners

Information assets are rarely scheduled or valued. We help identify them, assess what can be realised and run a sale or licensing process for the estate.

Special situations and restructuring advisors

When a business is being sold, carved out or wound down, we work alongside you to surface non-core information assets and form a view on their value.

Organisations with legacy digital assets

Retired products, closed divisions and decommissioned systems leave documentation behind. We assess whether it has value beyond the archive.

AI and data buyers

If you need rights-cleared, well-described business datasets with a documented chain of ownership, we can tell you what is available and what is in preparation.

1. 1

   Identify

   We establish what information exists, where it sits and who owns it, working from a document register, a data room or a conversation with the people who ran the business.

2. 2

   Assess

   We weigh commercial relevance against ownership, confidentiality obligations, privacy exposure and contractual restrictions. Anything that cannot lawfully be transferred is set aside.

3. 3

   Prepare

   Cleared material is organised, described and documented, with personal and confidential content removed, so a buyer or licensee can see exactly what they are getting.

4. 4

   Structure

   The outcome is structured as an outright sale, a licence or an acquisition by OnlyData, on terms that reflect how the material can and cannot be used.

• Commercially focused

  We are interested in what the information is worth, and to whom. Cataloguing is a means to a transaction, not the end.

• Specialists in an overlooked asset class

  Operational information carries its own questions of ownership, provenance and permitted use. It is the only thing we work on.

• Built for situations where assets would otherwise be ignored

  Wind-downs, carve-outs and distressed sales run to tight timetables. We are set up to work inside them, alongside the professionals already involved.

• Rights, privacy and legal awareness built in

  Every engagement is subject to ownership, confidentiality, privacy, contractual and legal review. We would rather set an asset aside than prepare it on uncertain ground.