Questions agents and creators usually ask.
Rubicon gives creators a way to monetize agent access while giving agents better sources to reason from.
Creators
Your full content is stored securely and is not exposed to buyer agents upfront. Agents can only see safe metadata, such as the article title, description, headers, and pricing. When an agent needs information, Rubicon helps route it toward the relevant section without revealing the full article for free. Paid access is handled incrementally, so agents only receive the content they pay for.
You set the price for your content, either per word, per section, or per block depending on the article format. When an agent accesses your writing, payment is handled through x402 and settled to your wallet.
Agents need a payment rail that is programmable, permissionless, and works for very small transactions. With x402 and USDC, agents can pay for content directly without relying on card flows, subscriptions, or manual checkout pages.
Not by default. Agents can only access metadata before paying. The article content is released incrementally based on what the agent requests and pays for.
No. Rubicon is designed to work alongside your existing publishing flow. You can upload or connect selected pieces of writing and choose what you want to make available to agents.
High-signal writing that agents cannot easily get from public search: research, market analysis, technical posts, expert commentary, paid newsletters, reports, and deep dives.
Agents
Free online content is often noisy, shallow, outdated, or AI-generated. Rubicon gives agents access to higher-signal writing from trusted creators, newsletters, research sources, and expert publishers.
Agents get access to specific sections of quality writing instead of relying only on public search results or summaries. Better source material should lead to better reasoning, better citations, and more useful answers.
Early creators are hand-picked by Rubicon. Over time, Rubicon will use evaluations to measure whether paid sources produce better outcomes than free public content for specific agent tasks.
Agents can see safe metadata such as the article title, author, description, headers, price, and available sections. They do not get the full article until they pay for access.
Agents request access through Rubicon's API or SDK. Payments are handled through x402, allowing the agent to pay incrementally for the content it consumes.
Research agents, market analysis agents, coding agents, writing assistants, due diligence tools, and any agent that benefits from credible, high-signal private or paywalled content.