AI services access your content daily without compensation. Liquad lets European publishers see who's crawling, set their own rules, and earn revenue — in one platform.
Press Gazette 2024–2025 · Gartner Feb 2024 · Internal benchmark
Our statement
AI captures the top of funnel before you do. SEO, paid campaigns, newsletters — all losing ground.
— Similarweb / SE Roundtable, Jul 2025 ↗Without on-site traffic, segmentation, personalization and retention all weaken.
— Reuters Institute, Jan 2026 ↗Fewer visits, fewer impressions, lower advertiser demand. Some publishers saw display revenue drop 65%.
— AdExchanger, 2025 ↗50,000+ mid-size European publishers have no seat at the table.
Today they access your content without asking. Tomorrow they need reliable, traceable, up-to-date knowledge sources their agents can integrate legally. The shift from free access to paid licensing is already underway.
The solution
Liquad connects your content to AI services willing to pay for it. You set the rules. We handle the licensing.
Step 1
Know exactly which AI agents access your content, how often, and what knowledge they value most. Real-time dashboard from day one.
Tracks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Bytespider + custom agents
Step 2
Define which AI services can access what content, under which conditions, and at what price. Per catalog, per AI partner, per price point.
Your licensing policies, enforced automatically — content-level granularity, not domain-level
Step 3
Built-in transaction platform. Every access is tracked, priced, and paid. Revenue from your content expertise — on your terms.
Monthly payouts with full analytics — zero double-billing guarantee
How it works
We monitor, qualify and keep up to date a list of the principal AI bots & crawlers to embed in your watchlist.
Gain visibility over what contents are the most scraped, what AI bots are the most active and for what usage.
Easily define granular policies per AI agents and path rules. Our embedded SDK loads your rules to control path access.
Prevent abusive extraction of your content, and secure your AI licensed partnerships over content access.
We automatically index your contents to make it accessible by your partners through a transactional, secured and monitored API.
Seamlessly grant paid licensed access over your content to legit AI Partners, and get automatically retributed.
Distribution
Issue API keys to your AI partners directly from your dashboard. They access your content instantly — no Liquad account required on their side. You stay in control of who gets access and can revoke anytime.
They use the key you gave them. First API call in minutes, not weeks. No signup, no billing setup on their end.
Each key is bound to a specific bot identity. Revoke individually, anytime, from your dashboard.
Partner usage is billed to your account at the catalog price you set. One line in your Liquad dashboard — full visibility.
Built for production
HMAC-SHA256 verified locally — zero network calls on the hot path
Built on Web Standard APIs — no third-party runtime dependencies
Policies cached locally, configurable per publisher. Events batched async
SDK fails open. Your site is never impacted — even if Liquad is unreachable
import { createLiquadHandler } from '@liquad/sdk';
const handler = createLiquadHandler({
apiKey: process.env.LIQUAD_API_KEY,
refreshInterval: 300_000, // 5 min (default)
});
// In your middleware or request handler:
const result = await handler(request);
if (result.blocked) return result.response;The market is real
committed in AI content licensing deals over 2024–2025.
But concentrated in just 34 mega-deals.
Wall Street Journal, NY Post, MarketWatch — over 5 years
Access to the Reuters archive
Bild, Politico, Business Insider
These deals took months of legal negotiation. Liquad lets you do it in days — with licensing policies you control.
Sources: Press Gazette, Media and the Machine (2024–2025). Liquad is not affiliated with these publishers.
More publishers join, more content becomes available, more AI partners pay — and more revenue flows back to everyone. Your knowledge becomes more valuable as the network scales.
Why Liquad
Binary. Block or allow, no revenue.
Domain-wide. Not content-level.
Months of legal work. Enterprise only.
Built for mid-size European publishers.
Built for Europe
No personal data collected. No US data transfers.
Article 15 — your legal leverage, our infrastructure.
European infrastructure. Deploy without legal review.
Ready for the emerging industry standard.
Pricing
No per-pageview pricing, no surprise bills. Predictable monthly cost your finance team will approve.
Flat monthly fee after launch
Our model is aligned with yours: we earn when you distribute, not before.
FAQ
No. Liquad only manages AI agent access — Googlebot, Bingbot, and all search engine crawlers are never affected. Your organic search rankings remain fully intact.
By creating a direct revenue channel independent of traffic volume. AI services pay to access your content through the Liquad network. The more specialized and current your knowledge, the more it's valued. Recurring revenue that doesn't depend on visitor count.
Instead of negotiating separate deals with each AI service, Liquad provides a shared API. AI partners authenticate once and access all publishers according to their licensing policies. One deployment connects you to the entire network.
A significant portion of each transaction goes directly to the originating publisher. Exact terms depend on content type, access frequency, and distribution volume. We define them together during onboarding. Our model is aligned — we only earn when you distribute.
You need a developer for a one-time SDK integration (under 30 minutes). The SDK is framework-agnostic and works with any runtime that supports Web Standard APIs (Node.js 18+, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge, Deno). After that, everything — watchlist, policies, pricing, analytics — is managed from your dashboard.
The SDK adds less than 5ms of latency. Token verification is done locally via HMAC-SHA256 in under 0.1ms — zero network calls. Policies are cached locally with a configurable refresh interval (default: 5 min). If anything fails, the SDK fails open — your site is never impacted.
Yes. From your dashboard you can issue API keys directly to your AI partners, each bound to a specific bot identity. They use the key — no Liquad account needed on their side. You stay in control of access and absorb the usage cost, which is consistent with the licensing terms you've already set on your catalogs.
Join the network. See your AI traffic. Set your rules. Start earning.