AI built a business on your content. Send the invoice.
SAIL, the Standardized Agentic Intelligence Ledger, is the transaction layer between publishers and AI systems. Set the terms for how AI systems use your content, and get a receipt for every use.
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The Problem
Your content does the work. The AI gets the credit.
AI is built on onsite content created with publications and websites like yours. But those who actually create the content rarely see true visibility defined attribution, and no actual payment.
But you do get crawler traffic that drives up your infrastructure costs… while referral traffic continues to drop.
Today's options all come with a cost: Block AI crawlers at the CDN level, and then your brand disappears from the fastest-growing discovery surface in media. Litigation can take years and cost millions. Flat-fee licensing, for the few publishers who can get it, comes with no usage reporting and no leverage at renewal.
50+
AI products actively retrieving web content to ground their answers
Billions
of AI queries answered daily using real-time content retrieval
Near zero
visibility publishers have into what content is actually used
The Shift
The next internet won't run on links. It'll run on licensed intelligence.
The web was built around hyperlinks. AI is built around retrieval. That difference is reshaping who gets paid.
What’s missing isn’t another AI model. What’s needed is the transaction layer between publishers and AI, with standardized ways to discover, license, verify, attribute, and measure trusted content.
Publishers
lose visibility into how their content is used.
AI companies
need trusted, rights-cleared content to build on
Enterprises
need evidence of where their AI's answers come from.
What SAIL Is
The transaction layer of the AI Content Economy
Cloud computing needed AWS. Online payments needed Stripe. The AI Content Economy needs a content supply chain.
SAIL is it: a transaction, receipt, and market intelligence layer for AI content rights. It converts your content into rights-managed objects, enforces your licensing policy on every request, and records every use in a verifiable ledger. Compatible with the emerging RSL and CoMP standards for machine-readable rights.
Object Production
Content is converted into rights-managed objects, each carrying its own licensing terms.
Policy Enforcement
Your licensing policy is checked and enforced on every incoming request, automatically.
Licensed Retrieval
Authorized AI systems retrieve content through a controlled API — never an open crawl.
Receipt & Intelligence
Every use is recorded in a verifiable ledger, generating a receipt and usage insight.
Why Publishers Join
Control, compensation, and evidence
Charge for what AI uses
SAIL turns AI retrieval into licensed, receipted transactions. The ledger gives you the record to bill against and the terms to enforce attribution.
You set the rules
Set policy per content object: what's allowed, what requires payment, what's blocked. SAIL enforces your rules. It never sets them for you.
An evidence layer for every use
Signed, replayable records of what was retrieved, by whom, for what purpose, under what terms. The biggest copyright fights in media are really fights about evidence. SAIL generates it on every transaction.
Scrape-free by design
Authorized AI systems retrieve through a controlled API. Before licensing, they see metadata, not your content. Your servers stop subsidizing someone else's product.
Market intelligence, built in
See which content shapes AI answers, where competitors displace you, and which gaps point to your next editorial investment.
Demand beyond the biggest AI deals
Reach the hundreds of AI products that need licensed content but can't negotiate publisher by publisher. Existing licenses? SAIL adds receipts and audit trails without renegotiation.
Partners
Launching with Sundial Media & Technology Group
As AI continues to reshape the discovery and distribution of content, publishers need greater transparency and control over the accessibility, attribution, and monetization of that content. SAIL represents an important step and framework for publisher participation in the AI ecosystem.
Kirk McDonald
CEO, Sundial Media & Technology Group
Infrastructure
Built to run at AI scale
SAIL is architected on NVIDIA AI software: semantic scoring, vector search, and GPU-accelerated inference at the speed AI systems actually operate. As AI moves from summarization to autonomous agents, content governance has to keep pace.
The AI Rights Economy is here. Join it on your terms.
Talk to our team about bringing your catalog into SAIL.
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