Search went zero-click. It doesn't have to go zero-sum.

Web traffic used to pay publishers and deliver brands their customers. Now, because of AI Search, it does neither. What we need is a new search ecosystem: one where brands still get found, publishers still get paid, and the answers people rely on stay accurate.

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The Problem

Brands lost control

When 85% of sources cited by LLMs come from third-party publishers, the answers customers read are based on what other people say.

Publishers lost revenue

Click-through rates to websites have dropped by 58%, meaning publishers that relied on ads and affiliate commissions are left with a revenue hole they can't patch.

Buyers lose the truth

When no one is paid to create new content, AI cites whatever's left: old prices, dead features, articles that were relevant years ago.

How Noble
Fixes It

In the fall of 2025, Rahul Jain and Josh Budman pivoted Noble after seeing how search was shifting, and set out to rebuild the economics AI search broke. In the early days that meant tracking every single publisher interaction in Google Sheets. It was slow, and manual, but it’s how they proved the model works before automating the process.

It all works through authentic brand mentions: a few sentences that bring a relevant brand's data or perspective into an article. As the expert on the topic, the publisher decides whether the information is worth including. For the brand, this means visibility because they show up in the third-party articles LLMs already cite. For the publisher, it's revenue on content they lost to declining web traffic. For the reader, it's a more accurate answer they can trust. 

The Internet is a big place full of out of date or flat out inaccurate information which AI parrots back to buyers as absolute truth. So Noble also constantly scans for inaccuracies and works with publishers to ensure the AI only relays what's true now.

That's how you keep the internet honest: accurate information from sources that both buyers and LLMs trust. 

That's Noble.

Meet our cofounders

Rahul Jain

Cofounder & CEO

Josh Budman

Cofounder & CTO

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