Two groups cost you money today: people running ad blockers, and AI assistants reading on someone's behalf. Wayleave subscribers pay a flat monthly fee; when they or their agents read your pages, a share lands in your account. You don't run any metering code and you never see who the reader is — only that the pass is valid.
Every Wayleave request carries an HTTP Message Signature (RFC 9421) signed by our key. You verify it and, if it's good, serve the article instead of the paywall. That's the whole contract.
Level 1 — let verified readers through. One check in front of your paywall or bot rule. We meter the read and pay you; nothing else changes on your side.
export default {
async fetch(request, env) {
if (await isWayleaveReader(request)) {
return serveFullArticle(request); // no wall, no ads
}
return yourNormalResponse(request); // unchanged for everyone else
},
};
Level 2 — serve your clean variant. The same check, plus returning your ad-free template to pass-holding humans as well as agents. We provide a drop-in Cloudflare Worker that does both.
Public, stable, and rotated with overlap so verification never breaks:
Requests we send on a subscriber's behalf are signed with the key published there and carry a per-origin pseudonymous reader id — stable enough for you to see repeat visits, useless for identifying a person or tracking them to another site.
Earnings accrue per read and settle to a Stripe account you control. Agent reads are priced per fetch; human pageviews are settled monthly, splitting each subscriber's pool across the publishers they actually read, pro-rata. The formula is published, and your dashboard shows every read we charged for.
Publishers are brought on by hand at this stage: we set up your origin, verify you control it, and connect your payout account with you. Self-serve signup — origin verification and payout onboarding you complete yourself — is the next thing we're building. While the network is this small we'd rather do it properly with each publisher than ship a form.
Wayleave is in private preview and running in test mode — no real money has moved yet. Back to the front page.