Campaign 001
24 years of service. A coordinated sequence. A case ready to file. The institution assumed the vendor lacked the resources to respond. The record is already built.
Small vendor. Major institution. Twenty-four years of trust.
For 24 years, a small technology vendor provided support to one of the most powerful investment institutions in the world. The contract was for support. Not for software. Not for development. Not for the tools the vendor built to help it do its job.
Those tools — purpose-built systems developed independently by the vendor's founder — processed nearly $100 million in institutional transactions every single business day. They were never sold. Never licensed. Never transferred. The institution paid for the service. It did not pay for what made the service possible.
When the institution sought broad ownership rights over the vendor's software and future development, the vendor refused to sign. What followed was not a negotiation. It was a sequence.
Payment for completed work was withheld — for months. A pittance was offered for technology built over two decades. When that failed, the founder's access was cut — yet his team's was not. Within 24 hours, every key person had been hired into identical roles.
When the founder followed instructions and arrived to retrieve his own hardware and other possessions, private security was called.
Every step was designed to leave nothing behind.
The vendor preserved the records. Recovered the evidence. Obtained independent valuation analysis. And after more than a year of preparation, is now ready for litigation.
Just because you depend on something doesn't mean you own it.
Just because you cut off access doesn't mean the record disappears.
Just because you're large and prestigious doesn't mean you get to take what isn't yours.
They counted on erasure. The record survived.
- Defendant
- Identity withheld
- Status
- Participation Open
- Resolution model
- 2× floor · 50×+ potential