Your data is an asset.What can it be worth right now?And what can it be worth in the future?

Forelumen (FOR-loo-men). Fore, ahead. Lumen, Latin for light. The light shown ahead: what your data can be worth now, and the way to more.

Your data is an asset: one you can monetize now, and one that can be worth even more in the future. The most advanced companies building AI need real examples of how work gets done, and they pay for them. Forelumen represents you, not the buyer: we work out what you have, what it can be worth, and the plan that makes it worth the most. For many companies that is tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to the bottom line now, and for some, more.

Decades of experience with data for advanced AI, on your side of the table.

Make your data an asset, now

Always de-identified. The same data, handled three ways.

Sold oncede-identified, one license to one buyer
Sold many timesde-identified, licensed non-exclusively to several buyers
Built onde-identified, extended with new collections, or used for your own AI
Illustrative. Everything is de-identified before it leaves your hands. Your numbers come from the assessment.

Who buys, and why

You don't have to know the buyers. That is our job. Here is what they are looking for.

Who

The most advanced companies building AI products: assistants, forecasting and planning tools, quality and inspection systems, and the robots and software coming to your industry. Some are large, some are specialists in one field. They buy under license, for a stated use, for a stated time.

Why your data

AI learns from examples of real work, and the public internet has run out of them. Your production records, documents, recordings and sensor logs show how things are actually done: the task variation, the environment variation, and the edge cases a model cannot get anywhere else.

What that means for you

Income from something you already have, on terms you set, with your people's and customers' privacy protected before anything is shared. And a clear view of whether the same data could do more for you than a sale.

Two ways we work for you

Decades of experience with data for advanced AI, put to work for you. Start with either. Most companies end up doing both.

Monetize now

We represent you

We assess what you have, de-identify it, find the companies that value it most, and negotiate on your side. Our fee is agreed with you up front and tied to the result.

Build

A strategy for your data

A clear answer on whether to license your data, keep it for strategic advantage, or train your own model on it, and in what order. Delivered as a dated plan with costs and partners.

How: own, sell, build

Most companies sit on data they have never valued. We work through it with you in three parts.

Own

Set up ownership

We inventory your data, confirm your rights to it, remove personal details, and put it in a form you control. De-identification runs inside your facility, on systems you own, as a capability we set up for you. Nothing leaves your hands until you say so.

Sell

License on your terms

We take it to the companies that value it most, negotiate scope, duration, and price, and handle delivery and payment.

Build

Grow what it is worth

We design low-cost new collections buyers are asking for, keep your option to train your own model, and turn a one-time sale into a lasting asset.

How we work for you

Every company is different. We agree the plan with you first.

1

Inventory

What data you have and what rights you hold.

2

Own

De-identify, document, and secure it under your control.

3

Value

What it can be worth right now, and what it can be worth in the future.

4

Sell or build

License it, keep it, collect more, or train your own model.

5

Grow

Repeat buyers and new data, year after year.

What you keep

Buyers usually write the terms. With an agent, you do.

  • Where a buyer asks for exclusivity, it is measured in months, not years
  • A clear view of whether your data gives you a strategic edge, should train your own model, or is worth more resold
  • Your employees' and customers' privacy, de-identified before anything is shared, to a standard built to stand up to regulatory and public scrutiny
  • A written license for every transaction, with access tracked

Every kind of data

We monetize the data you already have. If your company produces it, someone may want to learn from it. For most manufacturers the structured side is the larger asset, and the one a company model is built on.

Text and media

Slack and chat archivesEmailContracts and documentsKnowledge bases and SOPsSupport ticketsCall recordingsVideo of real workImages3D scans

Structured and time-series

Batch and production records (MES)Historian and SCADA time seriesLab and QC results (LIMS)Maintenance work orders (CMMS)ERP, orders, and shipmentsTransaction recordsIoT and sensor dataForce and torqueFormulation and recipe tables

New collections, for pennies on the dollar

Beyond what you already hold, we lay out low-cost collections built on work your teams already do, each one adding a new data asset that buyers are asking for.

Find out what your data can be worth

A short call and an assessment, no commitment. An American company working with U.S.-based resources, with as much review from your side as you want, and decades of trusted work for large companies behind it.

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