How pricing works

Buyers license data to train, evaluate or study models, so what counts is how much a model can learn from it. Depth is the span of history, volume and variety an asset holds. Completeness is whether the records are whole, with few gaps and consistent coverage.

Context is what surrounds the core data: metadata, documentation, the relationships between records, and the outcomes that followed. Code teaches more with its issue history, audio with its transcripts, and business records with what happened next. These are the qualities the assessment looks at first, because they decide how many buyer requirements an asset can serve.

An asset that arrives ready is licensed on cleaner terms and in less time. Preparation means being able to say what the data is, how it was created and what it contains, and being able to show that you hold the rights to license it.

Documentation is the written record of that: ownership and consent where they apply, a description of the format or schema, a sample, and notes on how the data was collected and cleaned. A buyer's counsel will ask for it, and an asset that answers those questions in advance is easier to place. The assessment looks at what is already in place and what is not.

A range for a data category, or for a size of holding, would suggest that those two facts set a price. They do not. Two assets in the same category and of similar size can be assessed very differently, because their rights, depth, demand and preparation differ.

A published range would also be read as a promise about your asset. We assess the asset in front of us instead.

The indicative range on the assessment form is different: an early indication drawn from your own answers about quantity and quality, never a price. The written license agreement sets the price.