Citations LLC is building the neutral infrastructure layer that enables authoritative content to be used safely, transparently, and commercially by artificial intelligence systems.
We sit at the intersection of publishing, technology, and AI, creating the technical rails that allow publishers of authoritative sources to retain control, gain visibility, and receive fair compensation when their content is accessed by large language models.
Our platform combines rights-aware access controls, real-time usage measurement, and verifiable audit trails to replace opaque AI usage with enforceable, trust-based economics.
"Citations is not an AI model and not a content marketplace. We are infrastructure—designed to be trusted by publishers, AI platforms, and regulators alike."
Secure content ingestion and distribution with built-in rights enforcement across markets.
Track and reconcile content usage with verifiable audit trails for complete transparency.
Enable publishers to receive fair compensation when their content powers AI systems.
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Citations is led by a team with deep, complementary experience across large-scale digital publishing, secure content distribution, enterprise technology, and global media and business strategy.
Karam Qubsi, Faiz Al-Shahab, and Syed Irfan lead Citations' core engineering and platform architecture. Together, they bring decades of hands-on experience building and operating production-grade digital content systems at scale.
They previously co-founded and built the largest eBook distribution platform in Southeast Asia, serving millions of users and managing extensive publisher catalogs across multiple territories. Long before AI made content provenance a global concern, they were already solving hard problems in:
More than 15 years ago, the team also designed and deployed a proprietary DRM system, giving them rare, first-hand experience in content protection, adversarial access environments, and publisher trust requirements.
This background directly informs Citations' architecture today: security, auditability, and rights enforcement are foundational—not bolted on.
The engineering team is based in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, a proven technology hub that allows Citations to scale world-class infrastructure efficiently while maintaining architectural rigor and enterprise-grade standards.
Citations' commercial and strategic direction is shaped by the combined experience of Jim Bryant and Michael Vasyanin, who bring deep backgrounds across publishing, media, technology partnerships, and global business development.
Together, they contribute:
This blend of publishing fluency and technology strategy ensures that Citations is built not just as a technical system, but as a practical, adoptable infrastructure layer aligned with real commercial and regulatory realities.
Citations exists because the AI ecosystem has outpaced the infrastructure that governs it. Solving that gap requires more than theory—it requires teams who have already operated secure, rights-sensitive systems at scale, and leaders who understand how trust is built across industries.
Our team has done both.
By combining:
Citations is uniquely positioned to build the provenance, licensing, and compensation rails that the AI economy cannot scale without.
Restore visibility, restore control, and restore revenue to the creators and publishers who built the knowledge ecosystem AI depends on—while enabling AI platforms to access authoritative content safely and compliantly.
