residualGet paid for the software you've already shipped.
AI companies are paying software companies for years of tickets, code review, incident threads and specs. We check if yours qualify, introduce you to the right buyer and stay with you until you're paid.
Two minutes. No access to your systems. Nothing upfront.
What software companies like yours can earn.
It depends mostly on how many engineers and other desk-based staff you have, and how many years of records you keep.
Our market estimate for a US company with 8–12 years on its tools, built from three buyers' published pricing. Staff means engineers and other desk-based staff. Not an offer: the buyer sets the price after review.
Recent deals
13 years of Slack, Jira, email and Google Drive records. Reported by Forbes (Apr 2026).
Four years of history across seven workplace tools.
Six years of history across fifteen workplace tools.
Amounts as published in 2026. Two deals didn't disclose a price. Not independently verified. Owners aren't named.
What buyers pay for in software
AI has read plenty of public code. What it rarely sees is how a team decides what to build, and how it fixes what breaks.
Tickets and sprint boards
How work gets scoped, estimated, argued over and shipped, sprint after sprint. Private boards almost never reach the internet.
Lives inJira, Linear, Asana
Pull requests and code review
Why each change was made and what reviewers pushed back on. The reasoning, not just the diff.
Lives inGitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
Incidents and postmortems
How an outage gets spotted, triaged, fixed and written up, minute by minute.
Lives inPagerDuty, Slack, Confluence
Specs and support tickets
How customer problems become specs, and specs become features. It's exactly what AI for product teams needs to learn.
Lives inNotion, Confluence, Zendesk, Intercom
Your clients and team are never named.
Before anything is delivered, an independent firm swaps every name, contact detail, address and reference number for a consistent placeholder. The work stays readable. The people in it don't.
To: Support, Tidewell
Re: Ticket #58214, CSV export times out
Exports over 50,000 rows fail after 30 seconds with a 504. It started after Tuesday's release. Workspace brightfern-ops, account Brightfern Studio. Call me on 415-555-0129 if a screen share helps.
To: Support, [Company]
Re: Ticket #[TICKET_ID], CSV export times out
Exports over 50,000 rows fail after 30 seconds with a 504. It started after Tuesday's release. Workspace [WORKSPACE], account [Customer_Org_41]. Call me on [PHONE] if a screen share helps.
To: Reviewers: Sofia Lindqvist, Arjun Rao
Re: PR #2317, retry failed webhooks with backoff (PAY-884)
Failed webhooks now retry five times with exponential backoff, capped at 10 minutes. Also moves the hard-coded API key prod_7c41e9a2f05b out of config/settings.yml and into the vault. Reproduced on the Nordlake Payments sandbox first.
To: Reviewers: [Engineer_12], [Engineer_03]
Re: PR #[PR_ID], retry failed webhooks with backoff ([TICKET_KEY])
Failed webhooks now retry five times with exponential backoff, capped at 10 minutes. Also moves the hard-coded API key [SECRET] out of config/settings.yml and into the vault. Reproduced on the [Customer_Org_17] sandbox first.
To: Engineering
Re: INC-412 postmortem, API latency, 3 March
p95 latency hit 4.2s for 38 minutes after an index migration locked orders-db-2. Rolled back at 14:52. Harbourline Retail was hit hardest; Tom Abbott there got updates every 15 minutes. Action: run migrations on a replica first.
To: Engineering
Re: INC-[INC_ID] postmortem, API latency, [DATE]
p95 latency hit 4.2s for 38 minutes after an index migration locked [HOST]. Rolled back at 14:52. [Customer_Org_22] was hit hardest; [Contact_08] there got updates every 15 minutes. Action: run migrations on a replica first.
Illustrations; all names are made up. Before you sign anything, you see the method and a de-identified sample of your own records.
Nothing upfront. You only pay if a deal completes.
Our success fee is agreed privately, in writing and under a mutual NDA, before we introduce you to anyone. No deal, no fee.
Four steps. About five hours of your time.
Check if you qualify
2 minutesTalk to us
20 minutesMeet the buyer
1 callSign and get paid
8–16 weeksSoftware companies with years of decisions in writing.
- 30+ desk-based staff (engineering, product, support, sales, ops), now or at your peak
- 5+ years on the same email, chat and ticketing tools
- Work decided in writing: tickets, pull requests, Slack, docs
- Your own records, kept separate from customers' production data
- US, Canada or UK, mostly in English
Everyone desk-based counts toward size, and your source code can stay out. Operating, winding down or closed: all can qualify.
Questions owners ask us
Do we have to include our source code?
No. Source code can be left out entirely. It's included only if you choose to, on licence terms that set exactly how it can be used. Tickets, reviews and the discussions around the code still qualify on their own.
What about customer data in support tickets?
Customer names, emails, phone numbers, account names and workspace IDs are replaced with consistent placeholders before delivery. Attachments with customer data can be left out. You approve a de-identified sample of your own tickets first.
What happens to API keys, passwords and other secrets?
An independent firm scans every record, from code to chat, and scrubs API keys, tokens, passwords, private keys and connection strings before anything is delivered. Residual never sees your data, and you see the method before you sign.
Who counts toward the 30 staff?
Everyone desk-based: engineering, product, design, support, sales and ops. Size is counted now or at your peak, so a company that was 80 people and has wound down can still qualify.
What does it cost?
Nothing upfront. If a deal completes, you pay our success fee, agreed in writing under a mutual NDA before any introduction. No deal, no fee.
Find out in two minutes if your records qualify.
Check if you qualifyOr email hello@joinresidual.com.