Crawler truth
A per-engine view of verified crawl activity rather than a user-agent count that any scraper can inflate.
For independent publishers
Your content is infrastructure. Measure it like infrastructure.
CrawlClick separates verified AI crawls from forged headers, measures what answer engines return, and gives selected publishers a controlled way to test disclosed sponsored insertions.
Pilot economics
$0
monthly platform fee
$50
Stripe Connect payout threshold
Publishers receive the majority of insertion revenue. The exact pilot split is disclosed during approval.
What the publisher receives
Referral context
Optional edge beacons compare eligible AI-referred visits with the crawls that preceded them.
Money evidence
Each paid insertion produces an event; settlements credit publisher earnings without putting impression-scale rows in the ledger.
Activation
How does a site join?
The pilot starts in test mode and advances only after each boundary is verified.
- 1
Prove control with DNS
Add the one-time TXT challenge shown in the console. Verification binds the site to your organisation.
- 2
Create a distinct HTTPS origin
The origin must be a public subdomain of the verified host. Private and metadata addresses are refused.
- 3
Activate the managed edge route
CrawlClick attaches the verified host to its Cloudflare-for-SaaS Worker; you point the requested CNAME and wait for managed TLS. You never deploy the billable edge code or receive its platform credential.
- 4
Connect payouts and observe
Complete Stripe Connect onboarding, confirm the crawler route and human bypass, and test fail-open behavior before enabling disclosed crawler insertions. AI-referral signals remain measurement-only; human visits are never a paid placement.
What does CrawlClick never require?
No database hot path
The crawler request path uses object-storage snapshots.
No hidden sponsorship
The paid relationship is visible in the inserted passage.
No availability gamble
Errors return the original origin response.
No live-money shortcut
The efficacy verdict gates live Stripe credentials.
Need the concrete sequence? Read the DNS, HTTPS origin and managed custom-hostname setup guide.
Invite-only pilot
Bring one real site into the pilot.
Tell us about your AI crawl volume, domains and current CDN. We review fit before creating an organisation or sending a sign-in link.