Encypher vs ProRata

ProRata estimates which sources shaped an AI answer and shares revenue, inside AI systems that opted in. Encypher signs a record into your content before any AI system sees it. One is an estimate at the end. The other is provenance at the start.

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Three layers protect a publisher's work: an access gate where a crawler pays, a signed mark that travels with the article even past a crawler that skipped the gate, and an attribution box that splits payment between sources. — Only the signed mark travels with the work. It carries proof and terms; it does not stop use.
Content provenance
Machine-readable rights
Content licensing

Side by side

ProRata and Encypher, side by side
	ProRata	Encypher
Where it works	Inside AI systems that joined	In the content, in copies that keep the mark (limits)
When	When an answer is generated	When the work is published
What it gives	An estimate of each source's share	A signed record of who signed what, and when
Needs the AI company to take part	Yes	No
Brings in revenue	Yes, shared by estimated share	No. It carries proof and terms

When to use each

ProRata: To earn a share of revenue from AI systems that have opted in.
Encypher: To carry a signed record and terms in your work, in copies that keep the mark.
Both: Revenue where AI companies take part, and a record everywhere else.

What ProRata does well

Five things an AI system can report about a story: fetched, used in an answer, cited, shown and clicked. The story's label rides through all five; only the fetch shows up in the publisher's own logs. — Of the five steps, a publisher sees only the fetch in its own logs. The rest has to be reported.
RAG
Content Telemetry Standard
Content provenance

Pay by share: Sources that shaped more of an answer earn more.
Handles the math: It attributes contributions to AI answers and supports revenue sharing.

Where attribution cannot reach

An estimate needs access to the AI system as it answers. It has no view into systems that never joined, or into models trained before they did. An estimate can also be disputed. A signed record shows who signed the work and when, in any copy that keeps the mark.

Create. Mark. Endure.

Sign your work free, before any AI system decides to take part.

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