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AI citing AI citing AI.
We built the opposite.

A private library of expert writing from vetted practitioners. Your AI searches it live, cites each author by name, and pays them every time their work is used.

Every expert answer an AI gives today is assembled from the open web, a web increasingly written by AI itself.

Firsthand is a closed corpus written by vetted practitioners. Your AI searches it live, cites the author by name, and the author gets paid.

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Today

Slop in, slop out. Answers built from machine-written pages citing machine-written pages, while the real experts are scraped for free and cited never.

Firsthand

Experts in, experts out. Claude, ChatGPT, or your in-house assistant searches the corpus over MCP. Every answer carries a named author, a credential, a license.

How it works
1
You write. We pay an advance.

Commissioned pieces in your area of practice, reviewed by practitioners. Human-written only. AI drafting is prohibited and checked.

2
AI products cite you by name.

The corpus grounds answers across every customer we sign. Your byline travels with every answer.

3
You earn on every relevant query.

Usage share of the licensing pool, paid monthly: advance + (your uses ÷ all uses) × pool.

See the full process, from application to payout →

Most people who can write well still fail, because they can’t build an audience.
We removed that part.

You write; we aggregate the demand. Your work earns across every customer without you owning a single subscriber.

Write once. Earn on every relevant query. No audience to build.

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Commissioning across every field where real expertise is scarce. Reviewed by practitioners, not algorithms.
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