Solutions · Media & content licensing

License terms that enforce themselves.

Your content is already read by machines; the question is whether that consumption is licensed, metered, and paid. GateCore turns license terms from a PDF into a gate.

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Is this you?

Four situations.

  • AI systems consume your content at machine speed, mostly unlicensed and entirely unmetered.
  • License terms live in contracts nobody's crawler has ever read.
  • Blocking bots protects the asset and forfeits the revenue at the same time.
  • You cannot show which licensee consumed what, when a royalty question arrives.
What you get

Your catalog, licensed at the gate.

Blocking and licensing stop being opposites.

01
Terms

License, retention, jurisdiction, enforced

Your terms are embedded in the listing and enforced at procurement, not remembered at renewal. Unqualified requesters never see gated catalogs.

02
Metering

Every consumption counted and priced

Per-unit metering with your rate, batched settlement, and a per-access record that answers royalty questions from the ledger.

03
Evidence

Provenance both directions

Signed receipts prove what was delivered to whom, and verified delivery lets you sell trusted content, not just content.

By use case

Each product, mapped to the job it does here.

Only the use cases that genuinely apply in this industry are listed.

UC1
Use case · Govern access

The catalog behind the gate

Every access identity-verified, scope-checked, and receipted; grants revoke instantly. Bot-blocking stays at your edge; the licensed path runs through the gate.

Gateway checkpoint · policy + review queue · governed data sharing · receipts

UC2
Use case · Sell to agents

Metered licensing as a channel

The same governed access with your per-unit rate on it. Consumption settles on the ledger with signed receipts, batched daily or monthly.

Marketplace listing · verified lead delivery · settlement + signed receipts

UC3
Use case · Get discovered

Discoverable to qualified licensees

Open MCP discovery brings agent licensees to your public listings; trust floors keep sensitive catalogs invisible to unqualified requesters.

Open MCP discovery · agent-readable terms · listing optimization tiers

How it works

Six gates, in order, on every request.

If any gate fails, nothing is delivered and nothing is billed.

01
IDENTITY
The requesting agent signs the request with its issued key. Unidentified traffic never reaches the asset.
PASS
02
TRUST
Standing earned from verified outcomes decides what the requester can even discover.
GOOD
03
CONTRACT
Your listing's terms are the contract: license, retention, jurisdiction, price per unit.
MET
04
POLICY
Your rules decide. Sensitive scopes can route to a named reviewer.
ALLOW
05
EXECUTE
Only the contracted access, at the contracted scope, metered per unit.
DONE
06
RECEIPT
Requester, decision, units, and settlement, signed onto the ledger.
RECEIPT

A refusal names the rule; a scraper gets nothing, and a licensed consumer leaves evidence.

The arithmetic

One catalog, metered.

What a modest licensed agent channel translates to at a per-access price you set.

WORKED EXAMPLEILLUSTRATIVE, NOT A PROMISE
Licensed accesses per month
100,000
Your price per access
$0.01
Gross channel revenue per month
$1,000
GateCore settlement fee (5% + $0.25 per batched settlement)
about $50
Illustrative net channel revenue per month
about $950

Illustrative arithmetic with placeholder inputs, not a forecast, a promised result, or a typical outcome. Substitute your own volume, close rate, and ticket size; the structure is the point, not these numbers.

At your size

Same gate, sized to you.

INDEPENDENT CREATOR / PUBLISHER
One listing, your terms, receipts by default.
MID-SIZE PUBLISHER
Listings per catalog or collection with per-asset terms and trust floors.
ENTERPRISE MEDIA
Trust-gated tiers across the library, exportable consumption records for royalty and licensing review.
What it costs

The published schedule, no asterisks.

Published rates are ceilings: volume pricing is negotiated down, never up.

LISTING
Free. Any product, service, dataset, or lead type. Organic agent discovery, no platform fee, no listing fee.
SETTLEMENT
When money settles through the marketplace: 5% of settled volume plus $0.25 per settlement event. Small transactions batch into daily or monthly settlements, your choice, so the fixed fee spreads across the batch.
PROCESSING
Payment processing passes through at cost and is itemized separately, never blended into our fee.
ENHANCED TIER
Regulated categories, and transactions of $1,000 or more, settle under enhanced governance at 10%, which includes the elevated review and audit posture.

Restricted content classifications settle under the enhanced governance tier.

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Live today

Shipped, and where the path runs next.

Reviewers get this split up front, because finding it later kills a deal.

Running in production

Available today

  • Free listing with machine-readable license terms
  • Open agent discovery over MCP, trust-gated for sensitive catalogs
  • Identity-verified, per-unit metered consumption
  • Signed receipt per consumption on an append-only, hash-chained ledger
  • Instant revocation of any licensee's grant
  • A public verifier: any receipt can be checked by a third party
FAQ

The two that come up first.

Does this stop unlicensed scraping?
Blocking belongs at your edge and should stay there. What GateCore changes is the other side of the ledger: a licensed, metered, receipted path that qualified agents can actually use, so refusing the scrapers no longer means refusing the revenue.
How do we get paid?
Every consumption is priced by your listing and settled on the platform's append-only ledger, with the split recorded per transaction. External payment rails are on our roadmap, and we are transparent about exactly where disbursement stands as we onboard.
Media & content licensing

Turn your license terms into a gate.

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