EdgeKit AI Access & Answers
Your journalism in Claude and ChatGPT, on your paywall's terms
Readers ask their assistant and get answers from your reporting, decided by rules you write: full text for subscribers, an excerpt and a link for everyone else. A reader who connects without an account registers with you.
What did the tariff ruling change for importers?
- Searched The Ledger · 4 results
- Opened 2 articles
The ruling ends the exemption for goods routed through third countries from 1 March, so importers pay full duty at the border 1. Before then, they should check how each shipment is routed 2.
What EdgeKit returned · decided by your rules
- 1Tariff ruling closes the third-country routeMarkets · ledger.example/markets/tariff-ruling-third-countryFull text
- 2What importers should do before 1 MarchMarkets · ledger.example/markets/importers-before-1-marchFull text
- 3The ruling is right, and lateOpinion · ledger.example/opinion/ruling-right-and-lateExcerpt
- 4Court ends third-country exemptionWire · ledger.example/wire/court-ends-third-country-exemptionHeadline and link
The choice today
Readers ask their assistant now. The usual answers cost you the reader.
Block it
The reader still asks. The answer just doesn't come from you, and neither does the reason to subscribe.
Build your own chatbot
A second index, a second login and a second copy of your access rules, drifting from the paywall you already run.
License the archive
The AI company gets the text and the relationship. You get a fee.
AI Access & Answers is the fourth answer: your title inside the reader's own assistant, signed in to your reader account, with your own rules deciding every article.
What it does
Your reporting, inside the reader's assistant
Subscribers get full articles in the assistant they already use. Everyone else gets an excerpt and the article's address on your website, where your paywall makes the offer.
Access
Paywall-grade rules, article by article
Two decisions sit in EdgeKit's decision editor, the same one EdgeKit Paywall uses: who may connect, and what each article returns. Full text, an excerpt, or just the headline and link. Rules read the reader's subscriptions and the article's section, tags, authors, type, language and publish date.
- An excerpt is the article's standfirst or opening lines, never the passage that matched the question.
- Access is checked on every search and every read, so a lapsed subscription loses full text on the next question.
- Publish a rule change and it reaches assistants in 60 seconds, as it does your paywall.
Who may connect Checked on every question
Anyone else is refused.
What each article returns Checked for every article
- 01Section is WireHeadline and link
- 02Has access to MarketsSection is MarketsFull text
- 03Tag is Free to readFull text
- ElseOtherwiseExcerpt
- Full text
- The whole article
- Excerpt
- Standfirst or opening lines
- Headline and link
- No text
Sign-in
Their assistant, your login, one reader record
Readers add your title's address to Claude, ChatGPT or any assistant that takes MCP connectors, then sign in on a page under your title's name with a code sent to their email. An existing reader lands on their own account and subscriptions. A new address registers, and you meet a reader you did not have.
- Each title's server has its own rules and its own logins. A login for one title is refused by another.
- The reader is told the assistant sees what they could read on your website themselves.
01 · In the reader's assistant
02 · Sign-in page
Sign in to The Ledger
An AI assistant is asking to search and read The Ledger as you. We'll email you a code.
Emailj.okafor@example.comEmail me a code03 · Consent
Allow access to The Ledger?
An app calling itself Claude wants to search and read The Ledger as you. It sees what you could read on the site yourself.
AllowDenyOne reader record
j.okafor@example.com · Markets subscriberWebsiteClaudeSearch
Search that finds the story, not just the word
Each question searches your archive by meaning and by exact words at once, in the article's own language, then ranks what your rules let through. The assistant can narrow by date, section, tag, author, content type or language.
- Only published stories are indexed. Drafts never reach a model, and scheduled stories are never returned.
- Unpublish a story and it leaves the index immediately.
- Every result carries the article's address on your website, so the assistant can cite it and the reader can click through.
- Tariff ruling closes the third-country routeMarkets · Ana Ruiz · 12 Feb 2026ledger.example/markets/tariff-ruling-third-countryGoods routed through a third country lose their exemption from 1 March, the court ruled on Thursday.Full text if opened
- What importers should do before 1 MarchMarkets · Tom Hale · 13 Feb 2026ledger.example/markets/importers-before-1-marchFive checks for any business that moves goods through a third country.Full text if opened
- The ruling is right, and lateOpinion · Mara Lind · 12 Feb 2026ledger.example/opinion/ruling-right-and-lateThe court took eleven months to say what the ministry…Excerpt only
- Court ends third-country exemptionWire · Agency copy · 12 Feb 2026ledger.example/wire/court-ends-third-country-exemptionHeadline and link
Your data
The index lives in your database
Your synced archive and its search index sit in your organization's own database, beside your reader records, never in a shared store. Every model call goes through a gateway with article-text logging switched off. When EdgeKit runs in your own cloud account, that gateway runs there too.
- The assistant receives only what your rules reveal to that reader.
- Your archive is never pooled with another organization's.
Where your archive goes
- Arc XPSource of record
- Your databaseArchive, index, readers
- AssistantOnly what rules reveal
Model calls, to index and search
- GatewayArticle text not logged
- Search modelsChosen with you
What assistants can find
- Published
- Indexed
- Scheduled
- Never returned
- Draft
- Never indexed
- Unpublished
- Removed from the index
Capabilities
Also in the box
Hide a story entirely
A rule can drop an article from results altogether, not just shorten it.
Any MCP assistant
Assistants register themselves when a reader adds your address, so a new one needs no setup from you.
Abuse limits
Searches and reads are rate-limited per reader, and sign-in codes and app registration per network address.
Search models picked with you
Embedding and ranking models chosen for you. Or rank results with EdgeKit Personalization instead.
Getting live
From archive to assistant in four steps
Your CMS stays the source and your website templates don't change.
White-glove onboarding: we set it up with you, start to finish.
- 01
Connect your archive
EdgeKit connects to your Arc XP organization and syncs every story. A small integration in your Arc organization tells EdgeKit when a story changes, and an optional nightly sweep catches the changes those events miss.
- 02
We index what's published
Published stories are split into passages and indexed in your own database.
- 03
Write the two rules
Write them in the decision editor like any paywall rule. A common start: any signed-in reader may connect and gets full text with access to the title, otherwise an excerpt. Then publish.
- 04
Give readers the address
Put each title's address on your subscriber pages or in a newsletter. Readers add it to their assistant, sign in once and start asking.
Beside your stack
Adds a surface. Replaces nothing.
Your CMS
Stays the source of record. EdgeKit keeps a synced copy to search and never edits a story.
Your paywall
Same decision editor, subscriptions and meters as EdgeKit Paywall, and one publish takes changes to both live.
Your sign-in
Readers sign in with EdgeKit ID: one reader account on your website and in their assistant.
The reader's assistant
Claude, ChatGPT or any assistant that supports MCP connectors with sign-in. Readers bring their own.
Questions
Asked before every demo
Which AI assistants can readers use?
Claude, ChatGPT and any assistant that supports MCP connectors with sign-in. A reader adds your title's address as a connector, signs in once with an emailed code and allows access.
What does a reader without a subscription get?
Whatever your rules say. A common setup gives the headline, the link and an excerpt, which is the article's standfirst or opening lines. You can tighten that to headline and link, or open chosen stories in full.
Can the assistant get the paywalled passage that answers the question?
No. An excerpt is always the article's standfirst or opening lines, never the passage the search matched. Full text goes only to readers your rules allow.
Will drafts or embargoed stories reach an assistant?
No. Only published stories are indexed or returned. Drafts are never sent to a model, and scheduled stories are never returned.
Do we need EdgeKit Paywall as well?
No. The assistant's two decisions run on their own. Readers sign in with EdgeKit ID, and the rules read the subscriptions and meters EdgeKit holds, which is why it pairs naturally with EdgeKit Paywall and Subscriptions.
Can each of our titles have its own?
Yes. Each title gets its own server, with rules you set per title, and a sign-in to one title's server is refused by another's. Each title needs its own EdgeKit address on its domain, and we set that up with you.