Who this is for
Newspapers, magazines and specialist publishers. Organisations that bundle rights for many. Platforms where readers already pay for something to read. Regional and specialist associations. And platforms whose content comes from their users: question-and-answer sites, forums, review and knowledge platforms.
What they share: they hold content that people ask for, and the one asking is increasingly a machine.
Why this matters here
Selling single pieces has been around for years and never caught on. The reasons are open to argument.
Something else is new. An AI assistant works through a longer conversation and finds exactly the one article that fits the question, at a publisher. The machine wants it, and so does the person behind it. That buyer never stood at the door before: no subscription, never going to take one, and willing to pay all the same, for this one text.
The classic web
Today, through AI
With NemosGo
Being found is no longer a success if nobody pays for it.
Your articles are read, analysed and quoted, by people and by machines. Only a tiny fraction of it is paid for.
Opting out is one route: rights holders can object to machine analysis in a form a program can read. Enforcing it is their own job. That protects the holdings, but it sells nothing. The other route is a price a machine can read and pay. Several are working on it; in the daily work of most publishers, none of it has arrived.
Which products fit
The same purchase works on the website, on social media, in messengers and inside the assistant. Agreement, payment, billing, delivery and receipt are seamlessly linked, with one receipt for both sides.
- Single purchase: the article, the archive piece, the bundle. The publisher sets the price, 25 cents for a review, say. The reader pays from their credit, and the text opens right away.
- Usage-based: an assistant or a crawler pays per lookup. The price sits on the piece; the program reads it and pays it in the same step in which it fetches the text.
- Delegated: when a reader sends their assistant off with a task, they approve an amount and a purpose for it beforehand. Within that, the assistant buys from you without asking each time.
In practice
- A field test from 1 July to 31 August 2026 with a culture magazine that had no payment model until then: articles bought one by one, tickets obtained, donations triggered, paid from test credit. The paywall opened within seconds of payment, and payment and delivery stayed verifiably linked. At the culture magazine alone, there were more than 500 purchases.
- A connector for Claude, running since the end of July 2026. For ChatGPT the route is built and tested; it is not yet cleared for production use there. Both purchases can be watched unedited on the field test page.
- A shop window: headline and teaser free, full text paid.
- The rights holder’s consent: a freelance writer has confirmed that her reviews may also be sold to AI agents. No money changes hands for the consent itself; it is recorded like a purchase of zero euros, and the publisher can use that to show the rights are cleared.
Looking back on the field test
Putting up an issue, selling a piece: the demonstration
What becomes possible
- An association of several publishers holding the contracts while NemosGo supplies the technology. That turns many publishers into one joint offering. Currently being set up.
- Consent instead of paying. Readers who do not want to pay see personalised advertising instead. The paid route stays the normal case and stays pseudonymous, the advertising route is the fallback. The provider delivers the advertising, NemosGo only receives the confirmation that the reader has accepted it.
- Paying contributors. Anyone who writes a good answer gets paid for it, in the same small amounts things are bought in.
Let’s talk
Tell us what is in your archive and who is asking for it. We will look at your publishing system.
What you bring, what the path to your first sale looks like and what it costs are set out under For sellers.