How Agents Pay Humans
One API to tip anyone, anywhere.
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The Problem: Creators Left Behind
The industry cannot align on how content creators should be paid, rewarded or acknowledged for their work. Tipping is overlooked as an intermediate solution.
Creator Impact
Lost revenue streams
Diminished ownership
Growing frustration
Enterprise Risk
Legal liability exposure
Compliance uncertainty
Reputational damage
Ecosystem Erosion
Trust breakdown
Reduced content quality
Platform fragmentation
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Why Now: It's time for micro-payments
01
Agent Economy
Training infrastructure & inference tools are growing exponentially.
02
Regulatory Pressure
Labs teams are facing pressure from governments due to demands from creators.
03
Crypto Rails
The infrastructure for cheap, reliable and stable internet-native payments is here.
Our Vision: Bring Twitch.tv style tipping to the rest of the web.
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Solution: The Grove API
One API for AI to pay humans for content
One API Call
Tip anyone with a single API call.
Any Currency
Pay in stablecoins, crypto, or fiat.
Enterprise Ready
Compliance, attribution & custody.
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Revenue Streams
Compliance & Attribution Subscriptions
Pricing by monthly transactions.
Includes immutable audit logs, crawl/scrape capture, and attribution exports with configurable retention for compliance teams.
Payment Facilitation
Settlement fees on payouts
Spread on swaps (fiat & crypto, cross-chain, cross-fiat)
On/off-ramp orchestration (card, crypto rails)
Net Float Income
Yield on custodial balances from collection to creator disbursement.
Analytics & Insights
Paid access to aggregate scrape activity and attribution intelligence:
- What's being scraped, when, and by whom
- Funding flows and payment patterns
- Sentiment and trend analysis across creator networks
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Technical Architecture
Pragmatic Decentralization
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Massive Market Opportunity
$30B+
AI Data Licensing TAM
Annual market size, rapidly expanding with AI adoption
$100B+
Creator Economy SAM
Total payouts across YouTube, Patreon, Twitch, Substack, GitHub
Billions
Agent Payments SOM
Daily machine-to-machine interactions expected this decade
Multi-Hundred Billion Dollar Market
Our platform sits at the intersection of three explosive growth vectors:
- AI training & inference
- Creator monetization infrastructure
- Emerging machine payment economy
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Competitive Differentiation
Brave Attention Token (BAT)
Model: Browser-native token.
Weakness: Limited adoption, ecosystem lock-in.
Flattr
Model: Voluntary monthly tips.
Weakness: Low habit formation.
Coil
Model: Streaming micropayments.
Weakness: Ecosystem bound.
GitHub Sponsors
Model: Ecosystem-specific donations.
Weakness: Niche use case.
OpenAI Licensing
Model: Private publisher contracts
Weakness: Not open, favors large publishers
Cloudflare AI Audit
Model: Infrastructure-level crawler blocking and opt-in controls.
Weakness: Binary on/off approach, no payment facilitation, requires Cloudflare infrastructure.
Our Competitive Edge
API-first & rail-agnostic • No ecosystem lock-in •Built for Enterprise • Works for humans & agents
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Grove's Differentiators
API First
For the agent economy
Adapt rather than Onboard
Build adapters for existing social graphs
Seamless Integration
Leverage existing protocols
Enterprise Driven
Focus on enterprise customers
We're building the payment and attribution API for the AI era
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Strategic Exit Opportunities
Our platform aligns with the strategic priorities of multiple acquirers across payments, crypto, and creator economy sectors.
Coinbase
Fit: x402 protocol alignment, AI-native crypto payments infrastructure
Value: Extends their crypto payment rails into the AI consumption economy
Google Pay
Fit: Growth in Asia micro-payments for content and streaming
Value: AI content monetization layer for their ecosystem
Square
Fit: Bitcoin/Lightning network strategy, creator economy focus
Value: Micropayment infrastructure for their ecosystem
Stripe
Fit: Internet-native programmable payments, developer-first approach
Value: Adds AI-era payment layer to their infrastructure platform
Patreon
Fit: Real-time distributed tipping, creator-first mission
Value: AI-era monetization beyond subscription model
PayPal
Fit: Expanding into Web3-compatible creator ecosystems
Value: Modern payment layer for digital content monetization
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