Reach the long-tail contentyour bilateral deals don't cover.
The trade press, niche industry blogs, and regional outlets your research actually depends on — most of them now block AI bots and aren't covered by your bilateral deals with Westlaw, Bloomberg, or FactSet. xpay✦ is how you reach them: paid-per-query, attributed, audit-logged, MSA-ready.
The publishers you want are blocking you.
A growing share of quality publishers now block AI bots at the gateway. Scraping harder doesn't fix it. Bilateral licensing doesn't scale. Common Crawl is months stale.
The long-tail vertical content is dark.
Trade press, regional outlets, niche industry sites — the publishers your research actually depends on — now block AI bots and aren't covered by your bilateral licensing program. You can't scrape them and you can't license them one-by-one.
Enterprise procurement asks where content comes from.
F500 legal review wants provable, licensed sourcing. "We scrape and the courts haven't ruled yet" doesn't pass — and bilateral deals don't cover the breadth.
Hallucinations are liability in regulated verticals.
In legal, medical, financial AI, a wrong citation is a lawsuit. You need verifiable provenance — and breadth of sources — on every retrieval.
xpay✦ is the legitimate way in.
Publishers in our network actively chose to be paid via xpay — including ones that block every other AI agent at the gateway. You pay what content's worth. You get the content. Everybody wins.
One contract. 1,000+ publishers.
xpay✦ covers per-query access across the entire publisher network — the long-tail vertical sources your bilateral deals literally cannot reach. Add new verticals without renegotiating.
Receipts as evidence.
Every retrieved document comes with a settlement receipt: timestamp, publisher, content hash, amount. Hand to your audit team.
Spend caps + per-domain governance.
Enforce budgets per project, per user, per publisher domain. Built-in rate limits and policy controls.
Three lines. Ship Tuesday.
Native SDKs across the agent stack. Drop in xpay where you already retrieve.
from xpay import EnterpriseClient
client = EnterpriseClient(
org_id="acme-research",
audit_log_sink="s3://acme-audit/xpay/",
)
result = client.retrieve(
query="recent rulings on AI training data fair use",
domains=["scotusblog.com", "law.com", "reuters.com"],
max_cost=2.00,
)
# result.documents[i].receipt → {publisher, hash, amount, paidAt}Live in five minutes.
01
Get an API key
Sign up at app.xpay.sh, fund a wallet (USDC on Base), get your API key. New accounts ship with $50 in free credits.
02
Drop in the retriever
Three lines of code. Native SDKs for LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, Stagehand, Playwright. Or hit the REST API directly with x402 headers.
03
Get licensed content + receipts
Each query returns the document, publisher attribution, and a settlement receipt. Pay only for what you actually retrieve. Cap spend per project, per user, per domain.
Built for agents like these
Legal AI
Harvey, Paxton, Casetext, Counsel-styleMedical AI
OpenEvidence, Glass Health, clinical decision supportFinancial research
AlphaSense, Hebbia, Rogo, LinqStop scraping.Start accessing.
Pay-per-query access to 1,000+ publishers — including the mid-tier sites blocking every other AI agent. One API key. Receipts by default.
Self-serve · $50 free credits · No BD calls · No MSA requiredOr browse the publisher catalogVertical Research — FAQ
Common questions from agent builders evaluating xpay
Trade press, regional outlets, niche industry blogs across legal, medical, financial, scientific, technical verticals — most of the long-tail vertical publishers your research depends on now block AI bots and aren't covered by Westlaw, Bloomberg, or FactSet. xpay reaches them via explicit per-query licensing. Browse the catalog or request specific domains.
xpay covers publishers in our network — independent from your bilateral deals. Continue Westlaw, Bloomberg, FactSet, Reuters as-is. Use xpay for the long-tail vertical publishers you can't reasonably get bilateral deals with.
xpay is SOC2-aligned and we maintain audit-ready logging by default. HIPAA BAAs available for enterprise plans. Talk to sales for compliance documentation.
Yes — enterprise plans include committed-spend discounts, dedicated support, and custom MSAs. Typical floor is $10K/month commit.
Yes. Set domain allow-lists at the org or project level. Useful when compliance requires sourcing from a vetted set.
Queries go directly between your wallet and the publisher's endpoint via the xpay facilitator (settlement only). xpay does not store retrieved content. Audit logs contain metadata, not content payloads.
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