Standards

Every consignment is assessed before it is offered to anyone. Specialists grade an asset on its quality dimensions, its depth, completeness, provenance, and internal consistency, and on its task capacity: how much genuine training and evaluation work the asset can support. Buyers pay for what a model can learn from an asset, not for bulk, and the grade reflects that.

The grade shapes the estimate and decides which buyers see the asset at all. A weak lot is not dressed up; it is described as found and priced accordingly.

• Graded before offered. No buyer sees an asset the house has not assessed.
• Two axes, stated plainly. Quality dimensions and task capacity, both reflected in the estimate.
• Condition reported, never dressed. What the specialist found is what the catalog says.

Buyers evaluate prepared material, never raw. Before any review, identities are pseudonymized to a documented standard: people, clients, and third parties are replaced consistently, so the patterns that make an asset valuable survive while the names do not. Credentials, keys, and secrets are stripped from content and history alike.

The prepared copy is what buyers work from. Originals change hands only at contract, on the terms the contract sets. Preparation is performed by the house at no cost to the seller.

• Identities pseudonymized. Replaced consistently to a documented standard before any buyer reviews.
• Secrets stripped. Credentials, keys, and tokens removed from content and history alike.
• Originals only at contract. Until signatures, buyers work from the prepared copy.

Before buyers see anything, the house verifies that the seller can license what is described. We check ownership and chain of title, who authored the material and under what agreements, what third-party material sits inside it and under what licenses, and the consent posture wherever people appear: releases, recorded-line notices, participant agreements.

Partial rights are not a disqualifier. They scope the license: what cannot be cleanly granted is carved out or licensed narrowly, and the buyer knows exactly which. What never happens is a lot represented as cleaner than it is.

• Chain of title checked. Ownership and authorship are established before an asset is offered.
• Third-party material identified. Embedded licenses and borrowed work are surfaced, not discovered later.
• Consent posture documented. Where people appear, the releases and notices travel with the lot.
• Partial rights scope the license. They narrow the grant; they are never hidden.

There are no public listings. Assets are offered privately to matched buyers, and every review happens under NDA. A seller is never named publicly, and is named to a buyer only with consent, typically at contract time.

Descriptions are generalized so that a reader cannot triangulate who is licensing. The same discretion holds after a deal closes: the house does not announce transactions, name counterparties, or trade on a seller's participation.

• Never named publicly. Not in listings, not in marketing, not after the deal.
• NDA before review. Buyers sign before they read a word of prepared material.
• Private by construction. Matched offers instead of open listings; consent decides every disclosure.

The house terms are simple: free until you license. Valuation is free. Preparation, including anonymization and rights review, is free. Buyer matching is free. Aribase is paid out of closed licenses, as a share agreed before an asset is offered, so the house earns only when the seller does.

Sellers keep ownership of the underlying asset; buyers license it. And a seller may refuse any terms, or withdraw before contract, without cost or penalty.

• Valuation is free. The instant range and the specialist's refinement cost nothing.
• Preparation is free. Anonymization, secret stripping, and rights review are on the house.
• Matching is free. Reaching the buyers costs the seller nothing.
• Paid from closed licenses only. No license, no fee, ever.