Publishers

Paywalls provides a robust platform for publishers to manage and monetize access to their online content and services. This guide outlines the steps required to set up your integration with paywalls.net.

Paywalls.net supports two complementary publisher features:

• Measuring and managing AI agent access measure AI traffic and control which AI agents can access content.
• Holistic monetization of traffic (human or AI agent) classify traffic so you can measure, price and route inventory based on who/what is consuming it.

Measuring and managing AI agent access

This feature is focused on access control + reporting for AI agents and other non-human traffic.

1. Integrate your CDN with the paywalls.net agent authorization service.
   • Follow the CDN Integration guide to install a request filter that checks with our auth service before content is delivered.
2. Manage access policies in the paywalls.net dashboards.
   • Use access control settings to allow/deny AI agents based on intent and usage classification.
3. View reporting dashboards in the paywalls.net dashboards.
   • Track what was allowed/blocked by intent, usage, operator, agent and more in the reporting dashboard.

If you are building a custom integration, see the API Reference for the underlying authorization and logging endpoints.

Holistic monetization of traffic (human or AI)

This feature is focused on classification + monetization routing, regardless of whether the requester is a human, AI agent, or another actor. In addition, when VAI signals are sent through the programmatic stack, they can optionally provide a cryptographically secure indicator of domain provenance increasing buyer trust and quality scoring.

1. Integrate the VAI scripts to capture verifiable traffic classification and confidence signals.

   • Start with the Validated Actor Inventory (VAI) overview.
   • Finish up with the Busy Ops Guide for the fastest way to get VAI signals into your stack.
   • For in depth technical details, see VAI technical spec.

2. Integrate your CDN (optional) with the paywalls.net traffic validation service.

   • Follow the CDN Integration guide to incorporate our traffic validation service to classify requests and generate a verifiable signal.