This may be the AdSense moment for the agentic web.
When @firstround invested in Parallel’s seed, the core thesis was a bet: AI agents would use the web far more than humans ever had, and the infrastructure to support that didn’t exist yet.
Now, Parallel has over 100,000 developers and companies like Harvey, Granola, Modal, Manus, Attio and Profound relying on their APIs daily.
Watching this thesis play out has surfaced a huge problem no one is tackling: if agents are using content from across the web, who gets paid and how do you even calculate that fairly? Until now, the answer has been closed-door licensing deals between the biggest AI labs and biggest publishers.
Today, Parallel is launching Index as a first step toward a scalable, democratic solution.
Humans still own content. They’re the writers, data owners, and publishers whose work those agents depend on to do anything useful. Index gives site owners a dashboard showing how agents are using their content and how much it contributes to the value of the work those agents are doing.
Compensation is tied to contribution — calculated using impressions, citations, uniqueness, and value (tasks with the highest compute spend). All of this is presented transparently. Launch partners show the breadth of scale: from major news outlets like The Atlantic and Fortune, to data providers like PitchBook and ZoomInfo, to independent creators like Packy McCormick and Mario Gabriele.
Proud to keep backing @paraga and the team at @p0.
Today @p0 launched Index, a platform for content owners (with a wonderful set of launch partners).
If you love the internet like I do, building a sustainable economic model that incentivizes and rewards quality content matters to an enormous degree. Especially in the agent era.
Thrilled to launch Index, Parallel’s new compensation model for content providers.
It has been a privilege to partner with such a group of amazing partners.
Reach out if you’re interested in getting paid when your content or data is used by AI agents @ https://t.co/F5CF1z81Lb
a few months ago we had a whacky idea: what if we built a physical museum of the human web?
the internet was a place many of us lived. i grew up pouring hours into every weird niche and the wayback machine
the web has a new user now. we wanted to celebrate the weird, whacky, and magical parts that got us here
open online today: https://t.co/AzOW3i043c
open to the public in SF May 8-16
@semafor is thrilled to announce one of our most ambitious initiatives ever and a project rooted in the clear purpose and mission of building bridges between the leaders of Silicon Valley + the leaders of the world who are implementing their technologies.
After leaving Twitter, @paraga had no shortage of options. He passed on all of them.
Instead of jumping into his next thing, he spent months trying to find a problem worth committing a decade of his life to. He kept coming back to a question: what does the web look like when AIs become its primary users? It requires a completely different infrastructure layer, built from scratch, for a customer the web never had before.
Today, @p0 announced a $100M Series B at a $2B valuation. The company is 18 months old, and more than 100,000 developers — including customers like Harvey, Notion, Opendoor and two of the US’s leading P&C insurers — are building on Parallel’s infrastructure.
We’ve had the opportunity to watch the team execute since their seed round. Congrats to Parag and the entire Parallel team.
So exciting to see @paraga's vision come to life with customers and investors in this latest funding round! What a thrill to be part of a company building an equitable and ethical ecosystem around AI search with a customer first mindset! Let's go @p0 💪🏼
@paraga@p0's vision has always been customer first and @paraga's conviction about the web second user has never wavered. Thrilling to see it come alive IRL