Seed Round Open · $1.5M · Patent Pending

The consent rails
the internet has been
missing.

Adworth is cryptographic infrastructure for digital advertising — making consent mathematically enforceable, verifiable, and compensated. We're building what Stripe built for payments, but for data.

Patent-pending technology · Live AI transparency data · Flat 2% per verified consent transaction

$700B+
Digital ad market built on uncompensated user data
$0
Current user share of that value
2%
Adworth fee — flat, every consent transaction
Feb '26
Patent filed — 11 independent claims across 5 components

Live Technology

Real data. Right now.
Not a prototype.

Our Ad Intelligence pipeline pulls live ads from Google's Transparency Center and runs AI privacy analysis in real time. This is the problem Adworth solves — made visible.

adworth.app/demo — apple.com analysis
Live Data
Ads Found
40
apple.com · live pull
Privacy Risk
8/10
AI-scored · high
Transparency
2/10
disclosure quality
Reg. Flags
4
GDPR · CCPA · DSA
AI Analysis — apple.com (representative sample) "Apple.com hosts persistent multi-year ad campaigns from opaque entities using image-only formats that bypass user inspection, creating unverifiable consent and targeting opacity. Adworth consent tokens would enforce granular opt-in for each advertiser entity and targeting dataset, with cryptographic proof of user authorization tied to specific ad placements."
This analysis is based on publicly available data from Google's Ads Transparency Center via DataForSEO and AI analysis by Anthropic Claude. Results represent a sample of up to 40 ads and are for informational and educational purposes only. This does not constitute a finding of wrongdoing, regulatory violation, or legal determination of any kind. Try the live tool below to run your own query.

Patent-Pending Technology

Five components.
One infrastructure layer.

Filed February 23, 2026. 11 independent claims. The system makes consent mathematically binding — not a promise, a proof.

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Cryptographic Consent Token

Users sign permission slips with cryptographic keys. Bound to a specific advertiser, data type, and time window. Cannot be faked, extended, or transferred.

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Privacy Governance Engine

Every data access request is intercepted and verified automatically. No valid token? Blocked. Expired window? Blocked. Zero manual review required.

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Invisibility Ledger

Append-only, tamper-evident record of every consent, revocation, and deletion. Companies cannot claim ignorance. Cryptographic proof at every step.

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State-Persistence Monitor

After deletion, the monitor keeps checking. It crawls data brokers and third-party systems to detect unauthorized data persistence post-revocation.

Removal Payload Engine

Detects violations and auto-generates legally-cited deletion notices — signed with cryptographic proof — citing GDPR, CCPA, and DSA by article number.

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Consent Marketplace

Consumers sell verified consent. Advertisers buy access with cryptographic proof. Adworth takes exactly 2% when value flows. No exceptions. No gatekeeping.

Market Position

No patent-protected
competitor exists.

Adworth is infrastructure — working across every existing ad system with cryptographic enforcement no one else has. We're not building a parallel ecosystem. We're the consent layer that all of them need.

Our differentiator isn't a feature comparison. It's the fact that we solve a regulatory gap no one else has addressed. We provide cryptographic proof of consent and deletion — not just reports. That's what regulators want. That's what enterprises will pay for.

Business Model

Flat 2%.
Perfectly aligned.

Adworth charges a flat 2% per verified consent transaction. Today (Phase 1) advertisers pay it for infrastructure access — every consent verification, every block decision, every audit record. Phase 2 (post-seed) opens the consumer marketplace where users earn directly when they grant consent. Same 2% rate, both phases. Same alignment, both sides.

2%

Per verified consent transaction

No minimums. No seats. Free API access for unlimited /evaluate calls.

Phase 2 example: Advertiser pays $100 per consent. User gets $98. Adworth takes $2. (Phase 1: advertisers pay the same 2% for infrastructure access; consumer payments open in Phase 2.)

Why this model works: We scale on transaction volume, not gatekeeping. Phase 1 builds advertiser revenue from compliance pilots — companies needing GDPR/CCPA/DSA/GSRA proof at the transaction layer. Phase 2 turns those advertiser flows into consumer payments, creating two-sided network effects: more users means better consent data means higher advertiser bids means users earn more means more users join. This is Stripe's model. This is how we build a category.

Seed Round

$1.5M
Infrastructure built · Ready to scale

The consent infrastructure is live. The patent is filed. The extension is in testing. We’re not raising to build — we’re raising to hire two people and scale what already works. The timing window — AI advertising boom, regulatory gap, no patent-protected competitor — won’t stay open forever.

What We Have Today

  • Patent pending — filed Feb 23, 2026, 11 claims
  • USPTO Trademark Serial No. 99678774 · SC Service Mark approved
  • 29 live Cloudflare Workers — consent, compliance, enforcement, monitoring
  • GDPR · CCPA · DSA compliance architecture
  • Privacy Cockpit extension (MV3) — in active testing
  • Ed25519 cryptographic consent API — live and verified
  • Consumer demo live · Waitlist collecting · Launching Q2 2026

What $1.5M Builds

  • One engineer — ship Privacy Cockpit to Chrome Web Store, maintain infrastructure
  • One BD & marketing hire — first advertiser pilots, user growth
  • Non-provisional patent filing by Feb 2027 — hard deadline, full IP protection
  • 18 months runway — reach Series A from traction, not urgency
  • We don’t make money unless you do — 2% only on verified consent transactions
Q2 2026 — Launch
Ship & Close
Privacy Cockpit to Chrome Web Store, public launch, waitlist converts, close seed round, hire engineer + BD
Q4 2026 — Q2 2027
Scale & Series A
Open marketplace, real transaction volume, network effects building, non-provisional patent filed Feb 2027, Series A positioning

Founder

Why I Left After 18 Years

I left my corporate career in December 2025 after 18 years — the last 15 as a supervisor managing large technical support teams. For 15 of those years I listened to escalated calls in corporate tech support from customers who had been financially hurt, legally exposed, emotionally devastated — almost always because of what happened to their data.

My understanding of copyright law and music publishing taught me this pattern early. Ownership extraction follows the same playbook across every industry. Artists have spent decades fighting just to own what they created. Your data is no different — someone else is holding the masters. Adworth changes that.

"What if users could lend their data — on their terms, with cryptographic enforcement, and get paid for it?"

I built it with 20 years of corporate experience, AI as my co-founder, and the conviction that the knowledge needed to solve real problems doesn’t come with a price tag. The patent was filed February 23, 2026. Now I’m raising $1.5M to hire two people and scale what’s already built.

NJ
Nick Johnson Founder & CEO, Adworth℠ LLC · Charleston, SC · Patent Filed Feb 2026 ·

The Market Opportunity

A $700B market.
Built on a broken foundation.

Digital advertising spends billions every year on inventory that has no cryptographic consent, no audit trail, and rising legal exposure. Adworth replaces that economics with verified consent at the transaction layer — defensible to regulators, durable through ad blockers, ready for the AI ad era.

Today's Market
  • CPM of $5–$50 with no consent verification
  • GDPR/CCPA fines up to 4% of global revenue
  • Consent managed by dark-pattern cookie banners
  • No audit trail — deletion claims unverifiable
  • Ad blockers eroding reach every year
  • Legal exposure on every AI ad placement
Adworth Consent Infrastructure
  • Flat 2% per verified consent transaction — zero waste
  • Cryptographic proof of consent — regulator-ready
  • Immutable ledger — every decision on record
  • Verified deletion — monitor checks, RPE enforces
  • Consented audiences don’t block you
  • DSA-compliant AI ad transparency built in

The Unit Economics

A single GDPR fine can exceed Adworth's fees across millions of verified consent transactions.

The flat 2% on verified consent isn’t a compliance cost — it’s the cost of every ad impression being defensible, documented, and delivered to someone who agreed to see it. That asymmetry is what creates demand for the infrastructure Adworth is building.