For publishers

Last updated 13 October 2026

What THE MOAT gives back

THE MOAT helps good reporting travel further, across language, geography and format.

It doesn’t replace original journalism. It makes the work of reporters, specialist outlets, independent writers and researchers easier to find, and sends readers to them.

• Every click goes to the publisher or creator who did the work.
• Smaller and independent sources get equal editorial consideration: a local investigation, a specialist newsletter or a strong video can sit beside the biggest newspapers.
• Reporting in other languages is part of the global conversation, with its language named.
• Substance wins over clickbait.
• Your name, your reporter’s name and your link always stay visible.

Journalism is strongest when important reporting can cross borders without losing its source, context or independence. THE MOAT doesn’t own the news; it builds better paths to the people who report it.

Powered by THE MOAT

THE MOAT can support publishers, not only compete with them. A “Powered by THE MOAT” international desk on your site could add global context while sending readers to the original sources.

Interested? Write to [email protected].

What THE MOAT is

An edited front page of business news from around the world, created and curated by PeerSpots.

It lists headlines and sends readers to the original. No one pays for a place on it, and no commercial relationship influences what it selects.

What we use

• Your headline, exactly as you published it
• The link
• The time you give
• The author’s name, when your feed gives one
• Your publication’s name and logo

We read your public RSS or Atom feed every 10 to 15 minutes, under our own name: TheMoat/1.0 (+https://moatpost.com/publishers). We read your robots.txt once a day.

What we never use

• Article text, excerpts or summaries
• Translations
• Images, other than your logo
• Copies or caches of your pages

An AI model reads the headline only, to help rank it. Its words never appear on THE MOAT, and we don’t train any model on your work.

Every link goes straight to your page, unchanged. The one exception is our email, THE MOAT Daily: there a click is counted, then sent on to your page, tagged utm_source=themoat.

Where your headlines appear

• The front page
• Story pages, which list every publication’s version of a story
• The river, the archive (the page as it stood, for 31 days) and the leaderboard
• The RSS feed
• THE MOAT Daily and its archive
• Our read-only MCP server for AI assistants, which returns references only: credit, headline, link

Opting out

Write to [email protected] from your organisation, naming your domain (or your channel or show on a shared host).

We can take you out entirely: we stop reading your feed and remove your work from everywhere listed above, past entries included. Emails already sent can’t be recalled.

Or we change one thing:

• No logo
• Out of the public archive
• Out of the MCP

It takes effect as soon as an editor records it, and you can come back at any time.

If your robots.txt names TheMoat and says no, an editor sees it within a day. To be sure it’s acted on, write to us as well.

Corrections

A wrong publication name, author, time or link? Write to us and we’ll correct it.

The traffic we send you

Ask us for the clicks THE MOAT sent to your site, month by month, for up to the past year.

These are totals only. We keep no data about individual readers.