Fund the Sources
The web that feeds the AI should get paid
AI answers are built on content from publishers and creators. uwait sends 30% of every winning ad bid as royalties to the sources an answer cites, and lets you tip those sites yourself after a reply. The seconds you wait fund the open web instead of draining it.
Why this matters
Why does the open web need funding?
Large language models learned from articles, documentation, tutorials, and forums written by real people. When an assistant answers instead of sending you to the page, the site that did the work often sees no visit, no ad view, and no income.
uwait closes part of that loop. If an answer leans on a domain, that domain shares in the money the answer generated. Royalties flow to the sources automatically, every single bid, with no paperwork on their side until they claim a payout.
The split
How is each winning bid divided?
Every auction is split the same way, in real time. The 30% royalty pool is the part that goes back to the sources behind the answer.
Paid for the seconds you already spend waiting.
Royalties to the domains the AI quoted in its answer.
Runs the auctions, payouts, and fraud checks.
Detection
How does uwait detect the sources?
The extension watches for one thing: the public domains an AI cites in its reply. That is the only signal it needs to know who deserves a royalty.
Cited domains only
uwait reads the linked domains shown in the answer (for example a docs site or a newsroom). It does not store the page content or the words of the response.
Your prompts stay private
uwait never reads your prompts or the AI's answers. The extension only detects that a response is being generated and which public domains it cites. Everything else stays on your machine.
Want the full privacy picture? Read do we read your prompts.
The flow
How does the money reach a source?
The AI cites a domain
When a model answers, it often references public pages: a docs site, a newsroom, a creator's blog. The extension reads only the cited domains, never the prompt or the answer.
An auction pays out
A native ad fills the wait. The winning bid is split on the spot: 50% to you, 30% to the cited sources, 20% to the platform.
Royalties reach the source
The 30% pool is divided across the domains cited in that answer and held for each owner. Sites claim payouts to their bank account through Stripe once they pass the payout minimum.
You can add a tip
After a useful answer, you can optionally send a few cents of your own to the sites it leaned on. Same idea, voluntary, on top of the automatic royalty.
Optional tips
Can I fund a source myself?
Yes. The automatic 30% royalty runs on its own, but you can add to it. After an answer that genuinely helped, Fund the Sources shows the cited sites and lets you send each a few cents directly.
It is voluntary and it is the ethical counterpart to the whole model: the AI used their content, so you can choose to pay them back. Tips ride the same Stripe payout rails as royalties.
- Tips are opt-in and never required to earn.
- You only see the cited domains, never private data about the source.
- Every cent goes to the sites named in your answer.
FAQ
Common questions
How does uwait know which sources to pay?
The extension reads only the public domains the AI cites in its answer. It never reads your prompt or the response text. Prompts and answers stay on your machine.
How much goes to the sources?
30% of every winning bid is set aside as royalties for the cited domains. You keep 50% as the earner, and 20% runs the platform.
Can I pay a source directly?
Yes. After an answer, Fund the Sources lets you optionally tip the cited sites a few cents yourself, on top of the automatic 30% royalty.
How do sources actually get the money?
Royalties are pooled per cited domain and paid out to the owner's bank account through Stripe once they pass the payout minimum.
More answers on the FAQ, or see who earns on the earners page.