Bot & agent paywall
The most advanced licensing platform for AI access
Offer AI systems clear, enforceable licenses, from summarization use cases to full article display, without lengthy negotiations
Problem
AI applications and agents increasingly rely on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), grounding, and citations, but licensing content for these use cases is typically slow, manual, and fragmented.
Publishers are left managing:
- One-off contracts
- Long negotiation cycles
- A growing long tail of AI agents and applications without a scalable way to grant governed access
- Inconsistent usage enforcement
- Limited visibility into how content is used
AI builders, meanwhile, need clear, machine-readable licenses they can rely on at scale.
Benefits
Standard licenses that remove ambiguity
Most AI access can be handled through predefined terms instead of custom contracts
Aligned with real RAG workflows
Licenses are designed for summarization, citation, grounding, and display, not model training
Publisher-controlled
You decide which license to use, at what price, and to which AI systems
Machine-readable and enforceable
Licenses are exposed via an API so AI systems can comply automatically
Supports existing deals
Custom license agreements can be enforced alongside our standard licenses in one platform
Solution
Step 1
Choose license types
TollBit lets publishers operationalize our standard licenses as well as existing custom agreements. Licenses are defined once and enforced automatically when AI systems request access:
Standard Summarization License
Allows single-use access for summaries, citations, or groundingStandard Full Display License
Allows single-use display of the full article within an AI application
Neither license permits training or generative reuse.
Custom or 1:1 enterprise licenses can also be uploaded to define, enforce, and standardize access rules and analytics across your deals. No need to invest in one-off development to support custom formatting or other direct deal requirements.
Step 2
Activate rates
Rates are set and activated directly in your TollBit dashboard
Step 3
Expose licenses to AI systems
AI platforms can programmatically discover license terms before accessing content
Step 4
Enforce and audit usage
Every licensed request is logged
Built for the ways AI actually interacts with the web
TollBit supports multiple AI use cases with purpose built solutions that are tailored to how agents interact with content and commerce
Digital publishers
Monitor, control, and monetize AI access. Publishers face growing AI traffic that is difficult to track and even more difficult to control. TollBit gives publishers a free platform for understanding how agents interact with their sites, separating AI traffic from human traffic, and enforcing rules and rates for content access.
Agentic commerce
Enable reliable, measurable agent-driven actions. Commerce platforms use TollBit to separate agent access from the human site, require agent identity, expose machine-facing workflows, measure real usage, and attach economics to agent activity, without disrupting existing commerce infrastructure.
Trusted by world's best publishers
Make AI access clear, enforceable, and repeatable
Use standard licenses to support RAG, grounding, and full article display without renegotiating terms for every AI partner
