Liquidating a company? Price the archive before the servers go dark

Slack, Google Workspace and GitHub delete accounts that stop paying. Hold off cancelling until buyers have pulled a sample, and ask each vendor's support team if a lapsed account can be restored.

Pewter accepts US companies with 20+ staff and 3+ years of data whether they are still trading or not, and it cautions that archives vanish during wind-downs. Software subscriptions are usually among the first expenses cut. For the archive, cancel them last.

SimpleClosure recommends listing assets and approaching buyers while the dissolution filings are in progress, when the value is at its peak. Record the systems used, the years covered, the number of users and the highest headcount.

1. 1

   Freeze deletion

   Stop any cleanup scripts and keep subscriptions paid.

2. 2

   List systems

   Email, chat, drives, tickets, CRM, code.

3. 3

   Check restrictions

   Contracts, NDAs, privacy policies, union agreements.

4. 4

   Get indications

   Get price indications from two or three buyers.

Hilco lists enterprise data and AI training assets. Tiger values customer databases. For startups, SimpleClosure and Sunset run the process. Direct buyers take closed companies too. See liquidators that sell data and what dead-company data sells for.