PromptPayout
A reverse-auction marketplace where small businesses (restaurants, agencies, plumbers) can license their real-world data — pricing, menus, service descriptions — to AI assistants that need fresh, attributable sources, instead of having that data scraped for free.
local business owners whose menus, pricing, and service pages are summarized by LLMs and never credited
- Self-service data registry where you upload your canonical page, menu, or catalog and set a per-call license fee
- AI-assistant adapter that lets compliant assistants retrieve your data with attribution and pay through the platform
- 'Replace-the-summary' dashboard that shows when and where your content was used without your permission and serves a paid alternative
- Monthly payout and tax-ready invoice handling for non-technical owners
The same backend shift the article describes — open content quietly being absorbed by AI — is happening to every local business on the open web right now, and they have no good seat at the table.
Article's central insight — code is cheap, attribution is gone — maps 1:1 onto small-business website content being scraped by AI answer engines.Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI ... ↗
Marketplace for SMB data licensing to AI does not exist; current options are lawsuits or doing nothing.Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI ... ↗
Per-call license micropayments plus a SaaS tier for high-volume SMBs to monitor AI usage of their content.Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI ... ↗
Need follows regulation and assistant economics; grows with adoption of AI search.
Needs standardized attribution protocol between assistants and content sources — non-trivial but tractable.