Grove
Humans connect. Agents learn. Creators earn.
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Problem: AI consumes without paying.
14:1
Google
1,700:1
OpenAI
73,000:1
Anthropic
The result:
- Consumption without payment → creator income collapses → no incentive to produce original content
- Less original content → weaker training data → AI progress degrades
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Solution: The Michelin Guide for the AI internet.
Google organized the world's data using hyperlinks as the signal.
Grove evaluates the quality of that data using money as the signal.
Humans Curate
Payments are the quality filter.
Every payment verifies a creator, prices a piece of content, and feeds a quality-ranked index.
Money is the only signal AI can't fake at scale.
The Index Grows
Each micropayment grows the index.
Grove builds the canonical directory of who made what and how to pay them.
Every verified endpoint makes the directory harder to replicate.
The index is the asset.
Two Buyers, One Index
AI team license the index for post-training data.
AI agents pay per access for inference-time content.
Both need quality human data. Neither can build the directory themselves.
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The market: Every step builds the directory.
01
Creators connect social profiles & start earning micropayments
02
Micropayments price content & signal what's worth paying for
03
Signals build the directory; the authoritative index of who made what and how to pay them.
04
Agents query Grove's directory and pay creators directly.
05
Revenue attracts more creators. The directory gets deeper and the moat widens.
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Revenue: Built by humans. Sold to machines.
We earn when creators earn. Revenue grows with volume.
Inference-Time Compute for AI Agents
- Pay per access for real-time content.
- Query the directory, find the creator, pay on demand.
- Fresh human data at the moment the agent needs it.
Post-Training for Frontier Labs
- License the quality index for training data.
- Curated & verified, with provenance and attribution baked in.
- The dataset synthetic data can't replace.
In Production
Payment Facilitation
We take a flat 10% fee on every transaction. Payments from as low as $0.01 thanks to low-cost blockchains.
Roadmap
Agent API Access
Pay-per-query access to the directory. Agents find creators, get endpoints, pay on demand. Revenue scales with agent volume.
Licensing
License the quality index to frontier labs for post-training data.
Compliance Subscriptions
Attribution logs, audit trails, exportable reports. Enterprise compliance for AI content access. Priced by transaction volume.
Currency Conversion
Cross-chain and cross-currency. We make payments land. A small fee on payments that wouldn't exist without us.
Float
Yield on custodial balances between deposit and payout. Money sits with us before it moves and we'll earn on the float.
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Why now? The moment for micro-payments is here.
1
Crypto technical stack is ready
Coinbase launched x402 and processed 57m transactions in December 2025. Cloudflare and Google adopted it.
Stablecoins rails are cheap, mature and growing in adoption.
2
AI enterprise data pressure
Paying creators is cheaper than defending against them; 65 copyright lawsuits & Anthropic sued for $1.5b.
Custom deals take time and leave millions of creators with nothing; News Corp signed a $250m deal with OpenAI.
3
Market validation
Tether just launched Rumble Wallet for creator tipping, but it only works on Rumble.
Digg relaunched in 2026, got overrun by AI bots in hours, and shut down. It validates that you can't build trust on free signals. Payment data is the only signal bots can't fake.
“I think we do need a new deal, standard, protocol, whatever you want to call it, for how creators are going to get rewarded. We need to have new economic models where creators can earn revenue streams.”- Sam Altman (Dec 2024)
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Live now: What we've built so far…
Web Profiles
- Profiles build our graph of human content profiles
- Enable users to be paid on all social graphs and profiles
- Enable users to be paid for content on web and mobile
- Example: grove.city/fred
Browser Extension
- Surfaces a "Tip" button on every social post
- Supports YouTube, 𝕏, Substack and websites
- Tips with an escrow wallet. No crypto exp. needed
Leaderboards, Giveaways, and Referrals
- Enables Walletless Payments with an escrow wallet
- Leaderboards surface top curators and earners
- Giveaways drive adoption; every tip is an entry
- Referrals build a graph and lead to organic adoption
- Visit app.grove.city
Example of our Tip button on 𝕏, surfaced by our browser extension.
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The ask: $5M to connect agents to creators
Human payments bootstraps the ecosystem. Agent payments scale it.
Phase 1: Grow the Index of Quality Data
- Incentives: Creator bonuses, payment subsidies, referrals
- Distribution: Platform expansion, partnerships, marketing
- Signal: Build the quality index from curation data
- Expansion: Grow beyond creators to high-value datasets
Phase 2: Monetize the Index at Scale
- Agents: Quality API, SDKs & first-party integrations
- Licensing: Quality index for post-training data
- Control : Custody, policy, budgeting
- Operations: Payment routing, attribution, compliance
Access our full data room for detailed information: grove.city/fundraising
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As a team, we've worked together for the last 4 years building and shipping Pocket Network.
Advisors
- Art Malkov Former CMO of Polymarket & IoTeX
- Vyas Krishnan, Eigenlayer's first employee and Growth Lead
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