RSL 1.0 - Now an official industry standard

Turn AI access into a revenue stream.

More content is accessed by bots today than by humans.

Supertab Connect lets content providers display licensing terms, manage existing deals, enforce access at the edge, reduce operational costs, and generate revenue from AI usage, without building custom infrastructure.

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The Opportunity

AI companies want to license your content - on their terms

AI companies are actively looking to license quality content - the question is whether you're set up to sell it to them. Supertab Connect positions you as a buyer-ready publisher, so when AI companies come looking, you can transact immediately.

Unethical scraping exists, but the bigger opportunity isn't enforcement - it's becoming the publisher AI companies want to pay.

Supertab Connect makes you transaction-ready. Display licensing terms, manage deals, enforce access at the edge, and get paid, without custom infrastructure.

>50%
of web crawl traffic now comes from AI bots and automated agents, exceeding human browsing for many publishers.
1,500+
publishers and organizations have endorsed RSL 1.0, the open standard Supertab Connect is built on, representing billions of web pages.
Hours,
not months
Time to launch AI licensing with Supertab Connect vs. building the equivalent infrastructure in-house.
The Solution

Control how AI accesses and licenses your content

Supertab Connect gives you control over how AI systems access your content, without requiring your team to build, maintain, or operate the underlying licensing infrastructure.

Display your licensing terms

Assert ownership, publish machine-readable terms

Manage existing agreements

Bring your own agreement, convert deals to enforcement

Enforce at the edge

CDN-level, not just on paper

Track and audit usage

Compliance visibility even before billing

Generate revenue

From licensed AI access to your content

Save operational costs

Free internal teams from licensing infrastructure work

Configurable on RSS and leading CDN and hosting platforms
Deploy Connect enforcement wherever your content lives
Plus any platform via SDK - Connect can be deployed virtually anywhere.
Bring Your Own Agreements

Already have AI licensing deals? We'll manage them.

Many publishers have existing agreements with AI companies, but few have the technical infrastructure to actually enforce them, track compliance, or prepare for renewal negotiations. Supertab Connect converts your existing deals into edge-enforced, auditable, billable usage records.

Whether you're 6 months from a renewal conversation or starting fresh, we remove the gap between what your agreement says and what's actually happening.

Convert existing agreements into technical enforcement
Monitor compliance against agreed terms
Build usage data for renewal and upsell conversations
No deal too large or too small
Who it's built for

Built for content providers and IP owners

Supertab Connect is designed by a team with deep experience in publishing workflows, rights management, and operating content businesses at scale.

Publishers & Media
News, editorial & digital media
Turn AI consumption of your journalism into a revenue stream. Define licensing terms for training, search augmentation, and generation, with audit-grade records proving every access event was compensated.
Data & Research
Data providers & research platforms
Set usage-based pricing for AI agent access to datasets and proprietary research. Machine-readable terms let compliant bots transact autonomously, no manual licensing negotiations required.
Creators & IP Owners
Content creators & rights holders
Express attribution requirements, contribution mandates, and access restrictions in a standard that AI systems can actually read and comply with, not just a terms page they ignore.
What we handle

Get started in hours, not weeks

Connect reduces implementation of licensing standards from months of engineering to a three-step deployment that non-technical teams can manage from day one.

Step 01
Publish your licensing terms
Use the Supertab Connect dashboard to define which AI uses are permitted (training, search, generation) and set your pricing. No XML, no RSL expertise required. Non-technical teams manage this without touching code or calling IT.
Step 02
Enforce licensed access at the edge
Supertab Connect deploys token verification at the CDN layer, real-time validation before every request. Compliant AI customers prove they're licensed. Unlicensed access is blocked or logged, with full audit trails. Supertab Connect can also protect scraping of your RSS feed, giving you control over your content in all its forms.
Step 03
Settle usage and get compensated
Licensed AI customers transact through the Supertab settlement engine. Usage-based or flat-rate - you choose. The same engine that handles human micropayments handles machine licensing. One record for everything.
What we handle

We absorb the infrastructure. You keep the control.

Being in control of your AI licensing strategy is powerful, but implementing it yourself means owning an OAuth token server, edge enforcement logic, token lifecycle management, observability tooling, and a support system before you've licensed a single crawler.

Connect is the managed layer that absorbs all of it. You get the full control of an open standard without inheriting its operational weight.

RSL-compliant license server
We operate the full OAuth 2.0 token endpoint, client credential flows, license payload validation, token issuance, and error handling. Fully compliant with RSL 1.0.
Token lifecycle management
We manage regeneration, caching, and revocation at scale, the kind of operational drag that compounds until it breaks things.
Edge verification (CAP layer)
Real-time token validation at the CDN layer, header parsing, authorization logic, permission checks, and standard-compliant error responses. Deployable via CDN, SDK, or WordPress plugin.
Policy-to-protocol translation
You define who can access what, under which terms. We translate that into valid RSL XML, so your team never has to become RSL implementation experts.
Non-technical license deployment
After initial setup, non-technical team members can update and deploy licensing terms directly from the dashboard, without involving your engineering team.
Access observability and reporting
Full visibility into issued tokens, verified access, and blocked attempts, by AI customer, by URL, over time. A working enforcement system without visibility isn't operational.
Standards evolution
Today it's RSL. As the market evolves, Connect will absorb new standard complexity, so you don't rebuild your stack every time licensing frameworks change.
Build vs. buy

What you'd have to build without Supertab Connect

Every item below is a real engineering and operational burden. Supertab Connect handles all of it so your team can focus on content, not infrastructure.

Infrastructure component
With SUPERTAB
Without SUPERTAB
RSL-compliant license server
Fully managed
You build & host
OAuth token issuance & validation
Fully managed
You build & maintain
Token expiry, refresh & revocation
Fully managed
You design & operate
CDN / edge verification (CAP)
Fully managed
You build per CDN
Policy-to-RSL translation
Fully managed
Team becomes RSL experts
Non-technical license deployment
Dashboard, no code
IT involved every change
Access observability & reporting
Built-in dashboard
You build logging & analytics
Standards evolution & maintenance
We absorb changes
You rebuild each time
Infrastructure component
RSL-compliant license server
With Connect
Fully managed
Without Connect
You build & host
OAuth token issuance & validation
With Connect
Fully managed
Without Connect
You build & maintain
Token expiry, refresh & revocation
With Connect
Fully managed
Without Connect
You design & operate
OAuth token issuance & validation
With Connect
Fully managed
Without Connect
You build & maintain
CDN / edge verification (CAP)
With Connect
Fully managed
Without Connect
You build per CDN
Policy-to-RSL translation
With Connect
Fully managed
Without Connect
Team becomes RSL experts
Non-technical license deployment
With Connect
Dashboard, no code
Without Connect
IT involved every change
Access observability & reporting
With Connect
We absorb changes
Without Connect
You rebuild each time
Standards evolution & maintenance
With Connect
Fully managed
Without Connect
You build & maintain
The standard

Really Simple Licensing (RSL)

Supertab Connect provides publishers with a powerful, purpose-built platform to manage, deploy, and monitor Really Simple Licensing agreements.

Join a publisher-first copyright ecosystem where you can assert ownership and maintain control over how your content is consumed by AI systems.

Unlike robots.txt, which only offers a binary allow/block, RSL introduces granular licensing terms that AI systems can read and comply with automatically.

Supertab Connect is the managed RSL implementation layer. We make publishers RSL-compliant without a custom engineering project, removing every barrier to adoption.

RSL 1.0 endorsed by
Cloudflare
Akamai
IAB Tech Lab
Creative Commons
Associated Press
The Guardian
Vox Media
BuzzFeed
USA Today
Stack Overflow
Fast Company
Inc.
Boston Globe Media
Slate
O'Reilly Media
Yahoo
Ziff Davis
Mansueto Group
+ hundreds more publishers and technology organizations worldwide
Integration

Integration options for every team

Connect is designed to fit how your team actually works, whether you want a no-code setup, a low-code script, or full API control.

No custom CDN builds
No bespoke servers to maintain
No ongoing maintenance burden
CDN, SDK, RSS, and WordPress plugin support
Non-technical teams can manage licensing independently
Get started

The future of the web is transactional.

AI systems are already consuming your content. Define the terms, enforce access, and get compensated, without building the infrastructure yourself.

RSL 1.0 compliant - Managed infrastructure - Live in hours