About
I'm Slava. I build WARD.
An open standard for AI access control on the web. Based in Leipzig.
What WARD is
The grid for AI access rights
WARD (Web Access Rights Declaration) is a neutral, open standard that lets any website owner declare how AI may use their content — and a server layer that enforces it.
The standard is MIT-licensed. The monitoring SaaS is in production. The first pilot is live.
Manifesto
What we believe
The open web is worth defending.
Standards are the only way to defend it at scale.
Content creators must share in the AI economy.
Universities pay professors to share knowledge; the web should pay everyone else.
The standard layer must stay neutral.
That is why we are not raising venture capital and not building a closed product.
Enforcement beats etiquette.
robots.txt asked politely. WARD removes the content the AI bot is not allowed to take.
Transparency beats spin.
Roadmap, funding, and decisions stay public.
Why this exists
The role was vacant. We took it.
The EU AI Act gave content owners a right. The DSM Directive gave them a vocabulary. Neither gave them a protocol.
The technical role — machine-readable, server-enforced opt-out for AI access — was effectively vacant. WARD occupies it.
Talk to me directly
No PR agency. No assistant. Founder email below. Response within 48 hours.
hi@slavaspitsyn.comGitHub: slavaspitsyn (brand) · vaclavnew (projects).