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Your archive outline
Select the types of records you hold. Connected records can help explain how your business worked.
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How it works
Not every archive will suit a buyer. These are the stages to discuss, rather than a promise of an offer.
You bring the context
McKays explores the route
Trading, selling, closing or already closed: describe your situation. Digital records: email, servers, CAD, Slack or Teams, project software. Explain what remains accessible. Small or large archive: approximate quantities are enough to start. Owner, appointed professional or authorised adviser: tell us your connection to the records.
These are starting points for a conversation. Suitability is considered individually.
Start with a description, not archive files or system access. Any extraction, digitisation, redaction or specialist review is a separately agreed step, not an automatic service.
See the connections
Illustrative example. All people, projects and figures are invented.
3 The site test report records a condition outside the selected product’s stated limits. We propose additional preparation before work starts. The additional quotation is £1,200. 4 Written instruction is still outstanding.
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The useful information is the connection between the observation, proposed action and later outcome. A detailed review would establish what could be used, which details need protection and what evidence is missing.
Discuss your records →A useful starting point
Describe the work covered, its age and the kinds of records you have. The outline carries your answers into an editable enquiry.
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Led by Richard McKay
With an honours degree in Quantity Surveying and over 30 years in the flooring and sports industry, Richard understands that the useful knowledge is often between the documents.
His construction background helps connect project decisions, costs and outcomes, rather than simply counting files.
Running Sprung Gym Flooring online adds hands-on e-commerce experience, from product information and quotations to delivery and customer support. That does not imply customer data is available for sale.
Richard’s construction background · His business and digital experience
Explore construction & building →Practical questions
The first look is free, with no upfront charge. Any fee for an arranged sale or licence is agreed before you commit.
We’ll review your description and reply within one week with any questions and a suggested next step. Tell us about a clearance or transaction deadline.
Yes. Describe the digital records you have (CAD files, servers, email, Slack or Teams, project software) and how they connect. You do not need a complete inventory or an export to begin.
Know who owns the records, who can authorise access and what the recipient intends to do with them. Ask about confidentiality, onward sharing, exclusivity and any charges. Do not provide passwords or system logins.
A licence can cover an agreed copy while you retain the originals. A purchase may involve different terms. We would explain what is being transferred and which rights you retain before you agree.
Potential uses include AI research, training and evaluation. Any proposed recipient and permitted uses would need to be established as part of the arrangement.
Tell us which material you want excluded. A review can be scoped around an agreed selection, although exclusions may affect whether an opportunity is suitable.
Start with a general description, without client names or underlying files. Before a detailed review, the relevant rights, confidentiality and personal information need to be assessed. Removing names alone does not settle those questions.
A short description is enough for the first conversation. If a detailed review is worth exploring, we would agree what information, staff time and preparation are needed before proceeding.
There is no standard payment date at the enquiry stage. Any proposal should state who pays, the amount or calculation, what must happen before payment, and when payment is due. Do not assume that sending files automatically triggers payment.
Its duration depends on the terms. Check whether rights end on a stated date, continue indefinitely, or can be terminated, and what happens to copies or uses already made. Those points should be understood before agreement.
An enquiry is not an offer or an agreement to buy. McKays may decline an archive where it is unsuitable or the rights are unclear. Start with a short description rather than paying for preparation before a route is agreed.
McKays can buy selected records directly or arrange a sale or licence for an agreed fee. For an arranged transaction, the amount or calculation, who pays and when payment is due are agreed before you commit. The first look is free.
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Free first look. Reply within one week. A general description is enough.
Tell us the business, approximate dates and kinds of records. You do not need a complete inventory.
Any fee for an arranged sale or licence, including who pays and when, is agreed before you commit.
info@mckays.co.ukNeed help describing your archive?Your enquiry has been received. McKays will reply within one week.
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Equivalent of the payment reported for a 70-person engineering firm.
Telegraph Lab’s account ↗Equivalent of the payout reported for a logistics and distribution business.
Red Deer Data case study ↗Third-party examples reported by the named providers, not independently verified or McKays transactions. Not a valuation of your archive. Approximate GBP equivalents, assuming the US providers’ reported dollar amounts are USD; rate checked 20 October 2026. Sources and conversion.
Published examples: Telegraph Lab reports 450,000 dollars paid to an anonymous 70-person engineering firm; its page and transaction are undated. Red Deer Data’s case study reports a 350,000 dollars payout for an anonymous logistics and distribution business; published 22 September 2026, updated 25 September 2026, with no payment date stated. Checked 20 October 2026. Pound figures are rounded equivalents, not amounts received in pounds. Assuming the US providers’ reported dollar amounts are USD, the USD/GBP rate checked on 20 October 2026 was 0.7478: 450,000 × 0.7478 = £336,510, rounded to £337k; 350,000 × 0.7478 = £261,730, rounded to £262k. These providers are not presented as McKays partners.
