Five standards
Standards
A deal is only as good as the conduct behind it. Five standards bind every deal Aribase conducts: how assets are judged, how people and secrets are protected, how rights are verified, how sellers stay unnamed, and how a license is agreed.
Standard 01
Evaluation and grading
Every asset 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 asset is not dressed up; it is described as found and priced accordingly.
- Graded before offered. No buyer sees an asset Aribase 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.
Standard 02
Anonymization
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 Aribase.
- 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.
Standard 03
Rights verification
Before buyers see anything, Aribase 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 an asset 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 asset.
- Partial rights scope the license. They narrow the grant; they are never hidden.
Standard 04
Privacy and discretion
There are no public listings. Assets are offered privately to matched buyers. 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: Aribase 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 samples. Buyers sign an NDA before receiving samples, data room access or prepared material. Anonymized catalog entries are open to registered buyers without an NDA.
- Private by construction. Matched offers instead of public listings; consent decides every disclosure.
Standard 05
License terms
A license is a written agreement. It sets out the scope of rights: what the buyer may do with the data, for how long, and where. Pricing depends on the scope of rights, including any exclusivity.
What Aribase is paid, and when, is answered once, on the homepage: How is Aribase paid?
- Terms in writing. The scope of rights is set out in a license agreement signed by both parties.
- Ownership stays with the seller. The seller keeps ownership of the asset and can keep using it.
- The seller decides. A seller may refuse any terms, or withdraw before contract without penalty.