Cashmere provides a platform that lets publishers expose their content to AI applications while retaining full control over licensing, access, and revenue. Its Fiber gateway enforces real‑time, per‑query license checks for LLM retrieval, and the Connect suite adds identity, payment, and analytics services so publishers can monetize usage on their own terms.
Funding
$3.6M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Publishers’ content is increasingly accessed by AI systems without clear licensing, tracking, or compensation, leading to loss of control over how their work is used and difficulty monetizing AI-driven consumption.
Solution
Cashmere offers a platform that lets publishers expose their catalogs to AI applications while retaining full authority over access, licensing, and revenue. The Cashmere Fiber gateway indexes content once and enforces license checks on every AI query in real time, providing low‑latency, structured retrieval designed for large language model inference. Cashmere Connect adds a modular suite of services—including identity management, payment processing, entitlement syncing, and API delivery—so publishers can launch AI‑powered products without building backend infrastructure. The platform tracks usage, generates analytics, and handles billing, enabling publishers to monetize per‑query, subscription, or enterprise licensing models on their own terms. By integrating with existing publisher systems or operating entirely on Cashmere’s managed infrastructure, the solution adapts to varied technical environments while safeguarding content rights.
Target Audience
Cashmere is aimed at publishers of books, journals, reference works, and other premium content who want to participate in AI ecosystems, as well as AI platform providers seeking licensed, trackable access to high‑quality sources.
Features
- Cashmere Fiber: real‑time, license‑aware search gateway optimized for LLM retrieval with millisecond response times
- Automatic enforcement of per‑query permissions and licensing rules at inference time
- Flexible delivery options: fully managed CDN hosting or routing to publisher‑owned servers
- Cashmere Connect modules: identity (Cashmere Identity, Passport, Sync), commerce (pay‑per‑use, subscriptions, enterprise billing), and MCP chat app integration
- Unified console for content cataloging, license management, API key control, and analytics dashboards
- Real‑time usage and revenue reporting with token consumption metrics across AI platforms
- Scalable infrastructure with built‑in analytics, SLA support, and compliance features