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FOR SOFTWARE COMPANIES

Your repo history is an argument about why the product is shaped this way

Design docs, RFCs, pull request discussion, incident post-mortems and years of support threads. Engineering culture forces reasoning into writing, and that written reasoning is the scarce part.

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Reasoning is already written downIncidents and post-mortems are dense materialNo equity, no debt, no board seat

THE ENGINEERING QUESTIONS

What technical founders ask

Does this include customer data in our product database?

That is generally not what we are after. The valuable material is the operating record — how the company decided, argued, and built — rather than a production table of user rows.

What about our customers' names in support threads?

Identifying fields are stripped as part of preparing the data, before anything moves onward.

We are open source in places. Does that reduce the value?

Public code is already public. What is not public is the internal discussion around it, and that is usually the part with the reasoning in it.

Do you need access to production?

No. There is no integration and no standing access to your systems.

WHAT ABOUT OUR CUSTOMERS

Scope first, anonymization before anything moves

  1. 01

    Establish what exists

    Six questions about your stack. No systems are touched and nothing is shared at this stage.

  2. 02

    You set the boundary

    The licence covers a defined slice. Anything you are contractually unable to license stays outside it.

  3. 03

    Identifying fields stripped

    Anonymization is part of preparing the data, handled before anything is shared onward.

  4. 04

    Paid on completion

    Typically $100K to $2M, Net 30 to 60, once the data has been approved, shared, and anonymized.

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WHAT THE COMPANY ALREADY HOLDS

Four systems that are mostly reasoning

A software business generates this without trying. It is the working residue of building and running a product.

Repositories

Commits, branches, and the review discussion attached to each — years of technical judgement with its justification inline.

Incidents

Alerts, timelines, and post-mortems. A complete diagnostic narrative from symptom through cause to fix.

Design and planning

RFCs, architecture docs, Jira and Linear histories showing how scope was argued and what got cut.

Support and success

Ticket threads and escalations, where the product's real behaviour is described by the people hitting it.

SPEAK WITH A MANAGING PARTNER

Price the decisions your team already documented

Six questions and one short conversation will tell you whether there is a deal here. Nothing you tell us leaves Polyshares.

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