Note 5.  Acquisitions

FIZ

On September 28, 2022, Reprints Desk entered into an asset purchase agreement with FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur GmbH (“FIZ”). FIZ delivers STM content pursuant to various contracts with its customers through its AutoDoc platform. FIZ agreed to assign and transfer to Reprints Desk certain of these contracts effective January 1, 2023 (the “Sold Contracts”).

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On September 30, 2022, Reprints Desk made a non-refundable payment of $297,450 (€300,000) (the “Base Amount”) as initial consideration for the asset purchase. In September 2023, Reprints Desk paid $64,578 in contingent consideration for customers that have their Sold Contracts assumed by Reprints Desk in comparison to the trailing twelve months of revenue of all Sold Contracts (the “Base Amount Plus”). As of March 31, 2025, $29,394 in contingent consideration was recorded as a liability since it was unpaid, for customers that placed an order and have consented to have their contract assumed by Reprints Desk (the “Bonus Amount”). The Bonus Amount payments made were $28,614 and $91,174 for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2025, respectively. The Bonus Amount is based upon the collectable service fee that FIZ would have received from these customers. Contingent consideration for the Bonus Amount will continue to be paid in arrears through the quarter ending December 31, 2025.

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The current contingent consideration for the Bonus Amount is recorded as a short-term liability on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The Base Amount, the Base Amount Plus and the Bonus Amount were recorded as intangible assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheets with an estimated average useful life of 10 years.

ResoluteAI

On July 28, 2023, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding stock of Resolute Innovation, Inc. (“ResoluteAI”), a Delaware corporation, an advanced search platform that equips organizations with search, discovery and

knowledge management tools that are powered by artificial intelligence (“AI”) and NLP technologies. The total purchase consideration for ResoluteAI, net of cash acquired, was approximately $4.8 million. The consideration included an initial payment of $2.8 million, a holdback of $0.1 million and a contingent earnout that had an initial fair value of $1.9 million. The Company’s revaluation of the earnout resulted in a fair value of $0 on June 30, 2024. On December 23, 2024, the Company received $275,000 funds from transaction escrow release, related to a reduction of the purchase price, and recorded as other income on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss) during the nine months ended March 31, 2025.

Scite

On December 1, 2023, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding stock of Scite, Inc. a Delaware corporation (“Scite”), a platform for discovering and evaluating scientific articles via an AI model to create unique “Smart Citations”. Smart Citations allow users to see how a publication has been cited by providing the context of the citation and a classification describing whether it allows for supporting or contrasting evidence for the cited claim.

The total purchase consideration for Scite, net of cash acquired, was approximately $21.1 million. The consideration included an initial payment of $7.2 million in cash, $6.5 million in stock, a holdback of $0.2 million and a contingent earnout that had an initial fair value of $7.2 million. The Company’s revaluations of the earnout resulted in a fair value of $12.3 million at June 30, 2024 and $15.1 million at March 31, 2025.

The following sets out the unaudited pro forma operating results for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 for the Company had the Scite acquisition occurred as of July 1, 2023. These amounts include amortization of intangible assets:

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The Company utilized the acquisition method of accounting for the acquisition in accordance with ASC 805, Business Combinations, and allocated the purchase price to ResoluteAI’s and Scite’s tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets, and assumed liabilities at their estimated fair values as of the date of acquisition. The fair value assigned to the developed technology and customer relationships were determined using the multi-period excess earnings method, which estimates the direct cash flow expected to be generated from the existing customers acquired. The cash flows were based on estimates used to value the acquisition, and the discount rates applied were benchmarked with reference to the implied rate of return from the transaction model, as well as the weighted average cost of capital.

The valuation assumptions took into consideration the Company’s estimates of customer attrition and revenue growth projections. The excess of the purchase price paid by the Company over the estimated fair value of identified tangible and intangible assets has been recorded as goodwill. Goodwill also represents the future benefits as a result of the acquisitions that the Company believes will enhance the Company’s product offerings and lineup available to both new and existing customers and generate future synergies within the software and related services business.

As of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, management has finalized its valuation analysis related to the Resolute and Scite acquisitions. The following table represents the Company’s allocation of the total purchase consideration to the fair value of tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets, and assumed liabilities of ResoluteAI and Scite on the date of acquisition:

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