Selling a closed company's Slack or Teams archive

In a small business, chat is frequently the fullest account of how choices were made: requests, replies, and the path from a reported problem to its fix. AI buyers want precisely that to train AI agents.

cielo24 licensed 13 years of Slack, Jira and email, with the price reported in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Per MIT Technology Review, Mercor has gone after the Slack and Jira archives of closed startups. Through SimpleClosure, most wind-down data deals fall between $10K and $100K.

The Spirit Airlines records include 500M Teams items, roughly 100M emails, and SharePoint and OneDrive content. No larger Microsoft 365 archive has been put in front of AI buyers, as far as we know. Google's $10.0M bid won and awaits the judge. See what Spirit's archive holds.

• Keep the paid plan running. Downgrading or cancelling can hide or delete older history.
• Do not delete channels or users before an export or a buyer's review.
• Note how many years of history you have and how many people used it.
• Check customer contracts and NDAs for anything shared in shared channels.
• Ask the buyer whether they want an export or read-only access.

More in keeping a workspace alive and the Slack data guide.