[ ] What buyers license
[ ]SOPs, playbooks, manuals and QA checklists your company wrote
[ ]Project and ticket history, de-identified and reviewed
[ ]Training material, templates and decision guides
[ ]Code and internal tools you own outright
Line 01 · Know-how and data
Your SOPs are worth something now.
AI companies are licensing how established firms get work done: the procedures, playbooks and project history behind repeatable work. Howfold is on your side of that deal. We sort what's licensable from what must never leave, compare the buyers, and push for terms that protect you.
[ ] SELL NOW[~] CONDITIONAL[X] NEVER FOR SALE
YOU KEEP RUNNING THE BUSINESS[X] What never leaves
[X]Client records, contacts and communications
[X]Anything under an NDA or a client contract that limits reuse
[X]Personnel files, health data and other sensitive personal data
[X]Privileged or regulated material
[~] Conditions
[~]Your company owns the material, or has the right to license it
[~]A readiness review comes first: contracts, vendor terms, privacy law, de-identification
[~]You approve the exact package before anything ships
[~]Your own counsel reviews the terms
Who it fits
Established companies with 30 or more people and documented, repeatable work: professional services, engineering, technology, staffing and BPO, financial and legal firms.
How it works
01Sort
A 20-minute inventory call: what you've documented, where it lives, and what your contracts allow.
02Shop
If there's licensable material, a readiness review, then the buyers that fit, compared side by side.
03Sign
Terms that limit use, protect your clients and keep the decision with you, reviewed by your own counsel.
Questions
- Who licenses company know-how?
- AI companies building models and agents for real work. Some run formal programs that pay established firms to license process and workflow material. We compare the buyers that fit your material. Each publishes its own terms, and nothing is certain until a license is signed.
- Will our client data be shared?
- No. Client records, communications and anything under an NDA stay out. The licensable part is how your team works, not who it works for. HF-1, the Never-Send List, sets out the full boundary.
- Do we have to license everything we have?
- No. You decide what's offered, to whom and on what terms, and you can stop at any point before signing.
- What happens on the 20-minute call?
- We go through what your company has documented and where it lives, flag anything that must stay, and tell you plainly whether there's something worth taking further.
Also on the desk
FORM HF-0 · INVENTORY REQUEST
Ready when you are.
A 20-minute call with the Howfold Desk. We'll reply by email with a time.