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Senthor
Get paid every time AI crawls your content
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Get paid every time AI crawls your content
17 followers
AI crawlers scrape millions of publisher pages daily. robots.txt is ignored. Paywalls are bypassed. Publishers earn nothing. Senthor sits at the server level, fingerprints AI bots in real time, and triggers a machine-to-machine micropayment before content is delivered. No code change needed. Publishers plug in, set a price per crawl, and start earning. AI companies get clean licensed access. Publishers get a new revenue stream. The open web gets a sustainable model.
Buska
Hey PH 👋
A year ago, @melmouk (my co-founder and CTO) and I started digging into a question that felt almost too obvious: AI companies are crawling the entire web to train and serve their models. Publishers are feeding them for free. Why does no payment layer exist?
We spent months in R&D, figuring out if you could intercept a crawler at the server level, fingerprint it reliably, and trigger a machine-to-machine payment before the content is served. Turns out you can.
We launched first in France, where the legal ground is solid. French law already grants publishers neighboring rights over their content. We went and talked to pretty much every major French media group, press alliance, and publisher association. They all had the same frustration: they knew AI was scraping them, they just had no tool to do anything about it.
Here's what people miss though: the big AI labs only cut deals with the largest media groups. The rest of the web keeps getting scraped for free. SaaS documentation, e-commerce catalogs, niche news sites, developer docs, independent blogs. These sites are losing real traffic and real revenue while their content powers AI products they'll never see a cent from.
That's exactly why we built Senthor. Identify every request made by a bot or AI agent, decide to block or allow it, and monetize that traffic if you want to. No black box, no enterprise contract required.
Then AWS launched their own AI traffic monetization layer a few days ago. That was the market validation we needed to stop explaining the concept and start scaling internationally.
Senthor is free up to 10,000 requests. Takes a few lines of code to install. If you run any kind of content site, give it a shot and tell me what you think.
Drop a comment or reach out directly.
Tristan