ACRE

It’s time you get paid for your honest work.

About us

Acre was founded by a team from Stanford and UCLA who believe the next era of American technology should be built by the businesses that paved the way. It’s our mission to help independently owned businesses monetize their operational data.

Your hard drive gathering dust has real value.

A restaurant’s reservation book shows when customers actually show up, which nights they cancel, and the cover to server ratio that keeps service tight.

A contractor’s timesheets reveal which jobs run over and by how much, which crews are reliable, and what materials fail in your climate.

But nobody’s paying you for it.

Large corporations are getting paid handsomely to manufacture synthetic versions of this knowledge. Fabrications sold to buyers who’d rather have the authentic. Meanwhile, the independent businesses that created the original through decades of work have been left out of the transaction. Not because their records are worth less, but because they were never given a seat at the table.

You built this. You deserve a seat.

The Process

Submit an inventory

about 15 minutes

A short form covering what your business holds, where it lives, and how far back it goes. No technical skills required, and estimates are sufficient throughout.

We price it with the buyer

a few days

We take the inventory to the buyer and price it against live demand in your category before anything is committed on either side.

Review the offer

one call

You hear what they want, why they want it, and what it is worth. You decide what stays in scope and what comes out.

Execute the agreement

plain English

A licence covering a defined set of historical records. Nothing transfers before your signature is on it.

Receive payment

paid in full

The offer is paid to your business directly. Acre is compensated by the buyer, so nothing is taken out of your side.

Offers have run from $40,000 to $300,000
Priced on what your records actually contain: how much, how far back, and how much of it only your business could have produced.
It costs you nothing
No fee, no deposit, no retainer. Acre is paid by the buyer, the way a recruiter is paid by the company. If nothing sells, you owe nothing.
Nothing moves without your signature
You choose what is included and review it first. Records that identify a person are out of scope from the start.

Are you ready to leverage your work?

Get started