Who is buying
Turing acquires the record itself and supplies frontier labs. SimpleClosure arranges a sale or licence to AI labs and RL-environment builders and is paid a percentage when it closes.
Programme comparison
Turing vs SimpleClosure, side by side
Turing's Project Lazarus pays once, up to $1M, with no recurring commitment, for operating and winding-down companies. SimpleClosure's AssetHub sells or licenses code and workspace data, mostly at wind-down, charges nothing upfront and takes an unpublished success percentage. Its FAQ cites tens to hundreds of thousands per unique asset.
Page updated 19 Oct 2026. Figures checked 18 Oct 2026 at their sources.
In short
Where they differ
Published amounts
Turing caps its single payout at $1M. SimpleClosure gives no cap, citing tens to hundreds of thousands for unique assets and one reported codebase sale of about $25,000.
Rights
Turing advertises a clean rights transfer. SimpleClosure offers either a licence, where you keep the assets, or an outright sale.
Referrals
Turing pays up to $10k for a referral. SimpleClosure publishes no referral fee.
Each point restates the sourced rows in the table below, checked 18 Oct 2026.
Side by side
Every published point
| Point |  Turing (Project Lazarus) |  SimpleClosure AssetHub |
|---|---|---|
| Model | One-off purchase of the work record | Asset sales and licences, mostly at wind-down |
| What it takes | What Turing calls the record of how the work got done: communication threads and channels, build history (source code, reviews, tickets), business records (wikis, runbooks, schemas) and the reasoning behind decisions. Verticals named: software, finance, customer support, sales and CRM, legal, operations and logistics.(Turing, checked 18 Oct 2026) | SourceCode (repositories, codebases, product docs, tests and ticketing) and WorkspaceData (communications, documents, designs, tickets and workflows from tools such as Slack, Google Drive, email, Notion and Figma), plus IP, domains and talent. It says every dataset is processed for personal data before it is licensed.(SimpleClosure, checked 18 Oct 2026) |
| Published figures | "A single payout of up to $1M". The amount scales with how complete, rare and well preserved the record is.(Turing, checked 18 Oct 2026) | Its FAQ mentions deals in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for unique assets, and a case study says cielo24's data assets were acquired for mid-six figures. MIT Technology Review reported one founder receiving about $25,000 for his codebase, with about $15,000 pending for workspace data.(SimpleClosure, checked 18 Oct 2026) |
| How it pays | One payment, one valuation, one contract. No retainer and no recurring commitment.(Turing, checked 18 Oct 2026) | Either a licence, with the company keeping the underlying assets, or an outright sale. No upfront cost; SimpleClosure takes a percentage only if assets sell or license, at a rate it does not publish. AssetHub is free for its dissolution customers, according to a September 2026 release.(SimpleClosure, checked 18 Oct 2026) |
| Who qualifies | Operating companies and companies winding down.(Turing, checked 18 Oct 2026) | Built for wind-downs, but operating companies can explore licensing too. WorkspaceData left beta in September 2026 and opened to companies at any stage.(SimpleClosure, checked 18 Oct 2026) |
| Licence, rights, control | The page shows a "Clean rights transfer" badge. Exclusivity is not otherwise described.(Turing, checked 18 Oct 2026) | Not published |
| Referral | Up to $10k for referring a company.(Turing, checked 18 Oct 2026) | Not published |
| Who it sells to | Frontier AI labs, none named on the page.(Turing, checked 18 Oct 2026) | Leading AI foundation labs and reinforcement-learning environment builders, plus other tech companies.(SimpleClosure, checked 18 Oct 2026) |
| Not published | Whether the rights transfer is exclusive; Payment timing after signing; Which labs it supplies | The success-fee percentage; Exclusivity in licences; Payment timing |
How to use this comparison
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Related pages
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
01Which is better for a company that is shutting down?
Both accept winding-down companies. Turing pays one sum up to $1M; SimpleClosure takes a success percentage and offers AssetHub free to its dissolution customers, per a September 2026 release.
02Can an operating company use either?
Yes. Turing says it serves operating and winding-down companies, and SimpleClosure says operating companies can explore licensing.
03What does each charge?
Turing publishes no seller fee and pays one sum. SimpleClosure has no upfront cost and takes an unpublished percentage on success.
04What figures are on record?
Turing: up to $1M per company. SimpleClosure: tens to hundreds of thousands per unique asset in its FAQ, and about $25,000 for one founder's codebase per MIT Technology Review.
05Do they take source code?
Both do. Turing lists source code, reviews and tickets as build history; SimpleClosure lists repositories, docs, tests and ticketing as SourceCode.
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