Turing: Business data acquisition
Turing buys a company's whole operating record in one deal: chat, tickets, wikis, databases and code. Running, winding down or closed. Up to $1M.
Published October 19, 2026. Last checked October 20, 2026
What Turing takes
- •Chat: Slack, Teams, IRC, Sametime
- •Work tracking and tickets: Jira, Linear, Bugzilla
- •Wikis and knowledge bases: Confluence, Notion, MediaWiki
- •Databases and warehouses: Postgres, Snowflake, Oracle
- •Product and process docs: PRDs, runbooks, SOPs
- •Source code, legacy or modern, in any language
What Turing asks for
- •Years of real operating history
- •Systems and processes the team ran on
- •Someone with the authority to approve and transfer the records
- •Running, winding down or already closed
What Turing pays
- •A single payout of up to $1M for a company's operating record. Turing's own figure, not a quote
From Turing's own pages, checked October 20, 2026.
A few questions, about two minutes. If Turing fits, ask us to introduce you at the end.
Details on who qualifies
Turing looks for “a real operating history: years of communications, decisions, and shipped work”. Any industry can fit. Turing names software, fintech, healthcare, marketplaces, e-commerce, devtools and enterprises retiring old systems as examples.
Details on pay
One payout, one agreement. Turing says the price depends on how complete the record is, how rare the domain is, the volume across systems and the quality of what survived. It confirms the figure after sampling, usually within a week.
What Turing does with your records
Turing removes personal data and secrets “before anything reaches a model”, and processes the records in an isolated, air-gapped environment. Only a named team under NDA sees them. You approve the scope before anything moves, and Turing handles de-identification, the rights transfer and the legal work.
How it works
- Call. Turing books a short call under NDA. No files needed to start.
- Map. Together you list what exists across your systems.
- Sample. Turing reviews a representative sample, usually within a week.
- Offer. You get one valuation and one agreement. No retainer, no recurring commitment.
Before you apply
- Confirm who can approve the transfer. If the company has closed, that may be a director, a liquidator or an investor.
- Keep what survives. Don’t delete old workspaces or databases before the call, even partial ones.
- Know which systems hold customer personal data, so you can set the scope on the first call.
Sources
- Turing, Project Lazarus checked October 20, 2026
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