SolutionsA single title
Readers ask their assistant, and the answer is not yours
Readers ask Claude or ChatGPT about your reporting. The subscriber who paid gets anybody's summary, the reader you never met never arrives, and blocking the crawler or licensing the archive changes neither.
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 situation
What is going wrong
Readers moved into their assistants and the title did not go with them. The three usual answers, block, license or build a chatbot, each cost the reader.
The answer is not yours
Block the crawler and the reader still asks. The answer comes from somewhere else, with no reason to subscribe in it. License the archive and the AI company gets the text and the relationship.
The subscriber gets the excerpt
The reader who pays you now reads you through an assistant that was never told. The summary they get is anybody’s, and the subscription buys nothing where they read.
The new reader never arrives
A reader asks about your beat, gets a summary and never reaches your site: no sign-up, no offer. A chatbot of your own is a second index, a second login and a second copy of your rules.
What changes
When the assistant signs in to your title and reads your rules
Your title becomes a connector in Claude, ChatGPT or any assistant that takes them. The reader signs in with you, and every article is decided by the rules your paywall already runs.
EdgeKit AI Access & Answers
Your paywall’s rules decide every article
Two decisions sit in the same editor as your paywall’s rules: who may connect, and what each article returns. Full text, the standfirst and a link, or the headline alone, read off the reader’s subscriptions and the article’s section, tags, authors, type and publish date. An excerpt is the standfirst or the opening lines, never the passage that matched the question.
- Publish a change and it reaches assistants in 60 seconds, as it reaches your paywall
- Only published stories are indexed. A draft never reaches a model, and an unpublished story leaves the index at once
- The index lives in your own database, beside your reader records
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
EdgeKit ID
Their assistant, your login, one reader record
The reader adds your title’s address to Claude, ChatGPT or any assistant that takes connectors, then signs in on a page under your 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.
- One account on your website and in the assistant
- Each title has its own address and its own logins
- Every reader signs in. Nothing is answered anonymously
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 subscriberWebsiteClaudeEdgeKit Subscriptions
The subscription follows the reader into the assistant
A subscriber asks and gets the full article in the assistant they already use, because the rule reads the subscription on the same record the website reads. Access is checked on every search and every read, so a subscription that lapses loses full text on the next question. An article opened in the assistant counts on the meter, as a read on the website does.
- Full text for the subscriber, the standfirst and a link for everyone else
- A lapse shows on the next question, not the next sync
- One meter, on the site and in the assistant
- Counts
- Every readEach article once
- Per
- DeviceSigned-in readerGift link
- On sign-in
- Carry the count to their accountStart again
- Titles
- All titlesChoose titles
Read by
- Everyone else
- Signed in
EdgeKit Paywall
Every answer links to the article, where the offer is
Each result carries the article’s address on your website, so the assistant cites it and the reader clicks through to the page, where your paywall makes the offer. It is one account, not one browser session: a subscriber signs in on your website with the login they used in the assistant and reads on, and everyone else meets the offer your rules chose.
- Search by meaning and by exact words, in the article’s own language
- Results narrow by date, section, tag, author, type or language
- The address is yours to publish, on a subscriber page or in a newsletter, and readers add it themselves
- 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
How it goes live
Four steps, and your CMS stays the source
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. We do the install, and your developers review the small integration that tells EdgeKit when a story changes.
- 02
Index what is published
Published stories are split into passages and indexed in your own database. A draft is never sent to a model, and a scheduled story is never returned.
- 03
Write the two rules
In the decision editor, like any paywall rule. A common start: any signed-in reader may connect, full text with access to the title, otherwise the standfirst and a link. Publish, and it is live in 60 seconds.
- 04
Give readers the address
Each title’s address goes on your subscriber pages or in a newsletter. Readers add it to their assistant, sign in once and start asking.