AI agents created a new attention surface.
Developers now work in asynchronous loops.
AI coding agents changed development into an asynchronous loop. You ask Claude Code, or another agent, to work — and then you wait. That pattern repeats all day, across every serious AI-native developer.
Wait states are repeated, high-intent, and currently unpriced.
These wait states are real, frequent, and full of intent. They are also completely unpriced. No one has built an honest, privacy-preserving way to value that attention.
The wrong version is intrusive ads, farming, and spyware.
The lazy version of this is intrusive ads, popups, engagement farming, and spyware that reads your work. That product would deserve to fail, and we will not build it.
The right version is opt-in and verifiable.
The right version is opt-in, clearly labeled, developer-relevant, privacy-preserving, and fraud-reviewed. WaitLayer measures the ad surface, never your work. Private work never leaves the device.
WaitLayer starts with terminal wait states.
We start with the cleanest available terminal integration — Claude Code first. It is the first supported surface, not the last. The network is cross-agent by design.
The long-term company is the network layer.
Over time, WaitLayer becomes the measurement, marketplace, and settlement layer for AI-agent attention: verified impressions, developer trust tiers, sponsor quality signals, conversion feedback, and payouts across the agent stack.
Rendering a sponsor line is not the moat. Verifying quality, routing demand, protecting trust, and settling value across the agent stack is.