Valency growth playbook

Add the standard Highwire citation tags and ScholarlyArticle structured data to every work and version page, link the PDF, list each work in a sitemap (split by month as it grows), and point works that also live on arXiv or a journal to that version so Scholar groups them. Then submit Hub to Scholar's inclusion process and check that works appear.

Researchers publish where their work gets found and cited. Scholar indexing turns Hub from an extra place to post into part of a researcher's record, and the Community Manager gets an honest answer to "why publish here?".

[ ] citation_title
[ ] citation_author (one per author)
[ ] citation_publication_date
[ ] citation_pdf_url to a public PDF
[ ] citation_doi or a link to the arXiv version when there is one
[ ] ScholarlyArticle structured data
[ ] Work listed in a sitemap
[ ] Abstract visible in the HTML

• Scholar takes weeks to crawl

  Start now and check sample works each week.

• Duplicates of arXiv papers

  Mark the original version so Scholar clusters them.

• Valency HubHub work pages (checked October 22, 2026, two samples) are server-rendered with title, authors, abstract and share-card images, but carry no citation_title, citation_author or citation_pdf_url meta tags and no ScholarlyArticle structured data; one sample showed "1 view". The Hub sitemap lists 13 URLs (home, works index, submit, collections and docs) and no individual works.Source
• HiringCommunity Manager (Berkeley, posted October 9, 2026), Valency's first: "Researchers can smell a sales pitch from a mile away. They trust tools their peers use, papers their peers share"; "Valency Hub just opened as a public alpha"; duties include "Recruit researchers to publish, discover, and discuss on Valency Hub", run Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, YouTube and Discord, host "office hours, AMAs with researchers, demos, and journal-club style discussions", in-person meetups "across Bay Area campuses", and build "Clear attribution from community activity to sign-ups and usage". The post says MCP Bond connects AI systems "to tens of millions of papers and preprints".Source
• Valency HubHub homepage: "Publish your AI-assisted work here. It's versioned like code. Checked by machines before you publish. Reviewed and endorsed by verified humans, in the open"; featured collections include papers by or about the 2026 Nobel laureates (30 works) and recent AI-assisted math and computer science results; sign-up with Google, Microsoft or GitHub.Source
• Your websiteHub page on valency.io: "Think GitHub, for science: publish in the open, follow and fork any paper"; "In some fields, up to 90% of new papers show signs of" AI assistance; free for individual researchers, "Private workspaces and deployments for teams and institutions".Source

Define what is counted (unique works, full text, metadata records, preprints) and publish one figure with a definition and a date, ideally a live counter on the Bond page. Update the homepage, blog, pricing and job posts to match.

A precise, sourced number earns trust with skeptical scientists and gives journalists a figure they can quote.

• The defined number is smaller

  Show both: works with full text and records indexed.

• Your websiteHomepage: "The Home for People-Centered, AI-Accelerated Research"; MCP Bond connects "500+ million papers and preprints" to any LLM, "Free for academics and non-profits"; "Roughly 35 million researchers worldwide"; "One connector, 38 tools"; a quote from a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; "Built with a leading national laboratory".Source
• Valency blogBlog posts: "Valency Bond Is Live for All Users" (October 1, 2026: "instantly access over 44.5 million papers"); "Valency Hub: A new home for research" (October 6); a Hub collection of 722 AI-assisted math results (October 6); "arXiv is tapping the brakes" on "A cap of two submissions a month" (October 1); advisory board posts on the creator of IPython and Jupyter and on arXiv's scientific director (September 15).Source
• HiringCommunity Manager (Berkeley, posted October 9, 2026), Valency's first: "Researchers can smell a sales pitch from a mile away. They trust tools their peers use, papers their peers share"; "Valency Hub just opened as a public alpha"; duties include "Recruit researchers to publish, discover, and discuss on Valency Hub", run Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, YouTube and Discord, host "office hours, AMAs with researchers, demos, and journal-club style discussions", in-person meetups "across Bay Area campuses", and build "Clear attribution from community activity to sign-ups and usage". The post says MCP Bond connects AI systems "to tens of millions of papers and preprints".Source

Move past events to a "Past events" list with photos or recordings, add the next two dates (office hours and a journal club), and make sure the relative labels are computed when the page loads. Link the page from Discord and the newsletter.

A live calendar is the simplest proof of an active community.

• Few events at first

  Monthly office hours keep the page current.

• Valency eventsevents.valency.io, fetched twice on October 22, 2026: under "Upcoming events below" it lists "Let's Talk AI & Science" (Thu, Jul 30, "in 3 weeks") and "AI in Science Drinks · London" (Mon, Aug 24, "in 4 weeks").Source
• HiringCommunity Manager (Berkeley, posted October 9, 2026), Valency's first: "Researchers can smell a sales pitch from a mile away. They trust tools their peers use, papers their peers share"; "Valency Hub just opened as a public alpha"; duties include "Recruit researchers to publish, discover, and discuss on Valency Hub", run Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, YouTube and Discord, host "office hours, AMAs with researchers, demos, and journal-club style discussions", in-person meetups "across Bay Area campuses", and build "Clear attribution from community activity to sign-ups and usage". The post says MCP Bond connects AI systems "to tens of millions of papers and preprints".Source

Show the remaining calls and the verify step inside the first responses, send one email after the first session, and report verified users by institution domain each week to the founders.

Verification lifts usage, gives the team a contactable user and turns anonymous trials into an account list for institutional sales.

• Nudges annoy users

  Show only when the limit is near.

• Your websiteBond pricing: Individual is free, "100 calls a day while unverified" and "1,000 calls a week when you verify a work email", "No card needed"; Teams is "$499 /month" billed annually ($599 month-to-month) for "10,000 calls a month" and unlimited seats; Enterprise is custom, "Unlimited calls", with private cloud, on-prem or air-gapped options. Bond names three audiences: researchers, "institutions and R&D teams", and "AI tool builders".Source
• HiringGTM Engineer (Berkeley, posted July 27, 2026): buyers are "researchers, research computing teams, and technical evaluators at national labs and enterprise R&D orgs who will not take our word for it. They want to see it work, poke at the API"; duties include "sample MCP servers", "Build and develop landing pages and measure success", "Support sales and solutions engineering on technical evaluations, POCs, and RFPs with national labs", GitHub and Discord presence, and "Prototype and test PLG mechanics — self-serve onboarding flows, in-product activation nudges".Source
• HiringTechnical Product Manager (posted July 31, 2026): Valency "sits between three audiences — skeptical academia, results-driven enterprise, and AI-forward amplifiers"; the role balances "enterprise/national-lab requirements against open-platform, product-led growth models", owns "quality-control and trust safeguards for open-access products", and values "two-sided platform dynamics — marketplace growth, user-generated content quality control". A full-stack engineer was also posted on September 18.Source

Build two pages in the same style: "for institutions and R&D teams" (private corpus, deployment options, security, a POC in two weeks) and "for AI tool builders" (MCP endpoint, token efficiency, sample code, Teams pricing). Each shows real transcripts and a clear next step.

Paying buyers need to see their own workflow; the researcher page proves the format works.

• Security claims need care

  State only what is in place today.

• Your websitevalency.io sitemap: 13 URLs; the only audience page is /bond/for/researchers/, which shows four real jobs ("stay current", "build reading lists", "verify claims", "map people") as transcripts; there are no pages for institutions, research computing teams or AI tool builders.Source
• Your websiteBond pricing: Individual is free, "100 calls a day while unverified" and "1,000 calls a week when you verify a work email", "No card needed"; Teams is "$499 /month" billed annually ($599 month-to-month) for "10,000 calls a month" and unlimited seats; Enterprise is custom, "Unlimited calls", with private cloud, on-prem or air-gapped options. Bond names three audiences: researchers, "institutions and R&D teams", and "AI tool builders".Source
• HiringGTM Engineer (Berkeley, posted July 27, 2026): buyers are "researchers, research computing teams, and technical evaluators at national labs and enterprise R&D orgs who will not take our word for it. They want to see it work, poke at the API"; duties include "sample MCP servers", "Build and develop landing pages and measure success", "Support sales and solutions engineering on technical evaluations, POCs, and RFPs with national labs", GitHub and Discord presence, and "Prototype and test PLG mechanics — self-serve onboarding flows, in-product activation nudges".Source
• HiringTechnical Product Manager (posted July 31, 2026): Valency "sits between three audiences — skeptical academia, results-driven enterprise, and AI-forward amplifiers"; the role balances "enterprise/national-lab requirements against open-platform, product-led growth models", owns "quality-control and trust safeguards for open-access products", and values "two-sided platform dynamics — marketplace growth, user-generated content quality control". A full-stack engineer was also posted on September 18.Source

Each week post one thread: three new works with a plain-language line each, one researcher quote and a link to the collection. Repeat the best on LinkedIn and X in each platform's style, and track sign-ups from each post.

Useful curation earns follows; a weekly rhythm builds the habit of checking Hub.

• Misstating a result

  Quote abstracts and link sources.

• Valency HubHub homepage: "Publish your AI-assisted work here. It's versioned like code. Checked by machines before you publish. Reviewed and endorsed by verified humans, in the open"; featured collections include papers by or about the 2026 Nobel laureates (30 works) and recent AI-assisted math and computer science results; sign-up with Google, Microsoft or GitHub.Source
• HiringCommunity Manager (Berkeley, posted October 9, 2026), Valency's first: "Researchers can smell a sales pitch from a mile away. They trust tools their peers use, papers their peers share"; "Valency Hub just opened as a public alpha"; duties include "Recruit researchers to publish, discover, and discuss on Valency Hub", run Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, YouTube and Discord, host "office hours, AMAs with researchers, demos, and journal-club style discussions", in-person meetups "across Bay Area campuses", and build "Clear attribution from community activity to sign-ups and usage". The post says MCP Bond connects AI systems "to tens of millions of papers and preprints".Source
• Social channelsYouTube @valencyio: 23 subscribers, 38 videos, 1,287 total views. Valency is also on Bluesky, X, LinkedIn and Discord, and runs a newsletter on Buttondown.Source

Publish one spotlight every two weeks: the researcher, the question, the transcript and what changed. Cut a two-minute video for YouTube and a short clip for Bluesky and LinkedIn.

Specific peer stories persuade scientists more than features, and they feed every channel.

• Researchers are busy

  Offer written interviews too.

• Your websiteHomepage: "The Home for People-Centered, AI-Accelerated Research"; MCP Bond connects "500+ million papers and preprints" to any LLM, "Free for academics and non-profits"; "Roughly 35 million researchers worldwide"; "One connector, 38 tools"; a quote from a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; "Built with a leading national laboratory".Source
• HiringCommunity Manager (Berkeley, posted October 9, 2026), Valency's first: "Researchers can smell a sales pitch from a mile away. They trust tools their peers use, papers their peers share"; "Valency Hub just opened as a public alpha"; duties include "Recruit researchers to publish, discover, and discuss on Valency Hub", run Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, YouTube and Discord, host "office hours, AMAs with researchers, demos, and journal-club style discussions", in-person meetups "across Bay Area campuses", and build "Clear attribution from community activity to sign-ups and usage". The post says MCP Bond connects AI systems "to tens of millions of papers and preprints".Source
• Social channelsYouTube @valencyio: 23 subscribers, 38 videos, 1,287 total views. Valency is also on Bluesky, X, LinkedIn and Discord, and runs a newsletter on Buttondown.Source

Pick one collection each month, invite an author or reviewer, discuss on video, and continue the thread in the Hub conversation tab and Discord. Publish the recording and a summary.

Regular events build habit and fill Hub's open-review threads with real discussion.

• Low turnout

  Partner with a lab group as co-host.

• HiringCommunity Manager (Berkeley, posted October 9, 2026), Valency's first: "Researchers can smell a sales pitch from a mile away. They trust tools their peers use, papers their peers share"; "Valency Hub just opened as a public alpha"; duties include "Recruit researchers to publish, discover, and discuss on Valency Hub", run Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, YouTube and Discord, host "office hours, AMAs with researchers, demos, and journal-club style discussions", in-person meetups "across Bay Area campuses", and build "Clear attribution from community activity to sign-ups and usage". The post says MCP Bond connects AI systems "to tens of millions of papers and preprints".Source
• Valency HubHub homepage: "Publish your AI-assisted work here. It's versioned like code. Checked by machines before you publish. Reviewed and endorsed by verified humans, in the open"; featured collections include papers by or about the 2026 Nobel laureates (30 works) and recent AI-assisted math and computer science results; sign-up with Google, Microsoft or GitHub.Source
• Valency eventsevents.valency.io, fetched twice on October 22, 2026: under "Upcoming events below" it lists "Let's Talk AI & Science" (Thu, Jul 30, "in 3 weeks") and "AI in Science Drinks · London" (Mon, Aug 24, "in 4 weeks").Source

Recruit eight student ambassadors across departments, give them verified Bond access, lab workshop materials and a small stipend, and track sign-ups by ambassador code. Expand to other campuses where usage clusters.

Students carry tools into labs and later into their careers, and peer recommendations beat ads in academia.

• Uneven effort

  Pay per workshop held.

• HiringCommunity Manager (Berkeley, posted October 9, 2026), Valency's first: "Researchers can smell a sales pitch from a mile away. They trust tools their peers use, papers their peers share"; "Valency Hub just opened as a public alpha"; duties include "Recruit researchers to publish, discover, and discuss on Valency Hub", run Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, YouTube and Discord, host "office hours, AMAs with researchers, demos, and journal-club style discussions", in-person meetups "across Bay Area campuses", and build "Clear attribution from community activity to sign-ups and usage". The post says MCP Bond connects AI systems "to tens of millions of papers and preprints".Source
• Your websiteBond pricing: Individual is free, "100 calls a day while unverified" and "1,000 calls a week when you verify a work email", "No card needed"; Teams is "$499 /month" billed annually ($599 month-to-month) for "10,000 calls a month" and unlimited seats; Enterprise is custom, "Unlimited calls", with private cloud, on-prem or air-gapped options. Bond names three audiences: researchers, "institutions and R&D teams", and "AI tool builders".Source
• Your websitePress kit and team: the CEO is a UC Berkeley astronomy professor whose previous AI company was acquired by GE; the Head of Science has founded national open-science and research-software initiatives; media contact [email protected].Source

Publish a GitHub repo with recipes for the four researcher jobs, notebooks, a sample server that combines Bond with a private folder of PDFs, and copy-paste setup for common MCP clients. Link it from Bond and track stars and sign-ups.

Developers and research computing teams evaluate by running code; a good repo shortens time to first value and spreads by itself.

• Code goes stale

  Test the recipes in CI.

• HiringGTM Engineer (Berkeley, posted July 27, 2026): buyers are "researchers, research computing teams, and technical evaluators at national labs and enterprise R&D orgs who will not take our word for it. They want to see it work, poke at the API"; duties include "sample MCP servers", "Build and develop landing pages and measure success", "Support sales and solutions engineering on technical evaluations, POCs, and RFPs with national labs", GitHub and Discord presence, and "Prototype and test PLG mechanics — self-serve onboarding flows, in-product activation nudges".Source
• Your websitevalency.io sitemap: 13 URLs; the only audience page is /bond/for/researchers/, which shows four real jobs ("stay current", "build reading lists", "verify claims", "map people") as transcripts; there are no pages for institutions, research computing teams or AI tool builders.Source
• Your websiteHomepage: "The Home for People-Centered, AI-Accelerated Research"; MCP Bond connects "500+ million papers and preprints" to any LLM, "Free for academics and non-profits"; "Roughly 35 million researchers worldwide"; "One connector, 38 tools"; a quote from a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; "Built with a leading national laboratory".Source

Let groups start a 14-day Teams trial with a card, invite colleagues, and see usage. Offer a call only when a team passes a usage threshold. Price labs and startups the same way.

Self-serve lets small teams buy fast, and usage data tells sales which ones to call.

• Trial abuse

  Card required and call caps during trial.

• Your websiteBond pricing: Individual is free, "100 calls a day while unverified" and "1,000 calls a week when you verify a work email", "No card needed"; Teams is "$499 /month" billed annually ($599 month-to-month) for "10,000 calls a month" and unlimited seats; Enterprise is custom, "Unlimited calls", with private cloud, on-prem or air-gapped options. Bond names three audiences: researchers, "institutions and R&D teams", and "AI tool builders".Source
• HiringTechnical Product Manager (posted July 31, 2026): Valency "sits between three audiences — skeptical academia, results-driven enterprise, and AI-forward amplifiers"; the role balances "enterprise/national-lab requirements against open-platform, product-led growth models", owns "quality-control and trust safeguards for open-access products", and values "two-sided platform dynamics — marketplace growth, user-generated content quality control". A full-stack engineer was also posted on September 18.Source
• HiringGTM Engineer (Berkeley, posted July 27, 2026): buyers are "researchers, research computing teams, and technical evaluators at national labs and enterprise R&D orgs who will not take our word for it. They want to see it work, poke at the API"; duties include "sample MCP servers", "Build and develop landing pages and measure success", "Support sales and solutions engineering on technical evaluations, POCs, and RFPs with national labs", GitHub and Discord presence, and "Prototype and test PLG mechanics — self-serve onboarding flows, in-product activation nudges".Source

Package a standard POC: success criteria, a test set of the lab's own questions, a deployment note, a security summary, and a results report template. Run every evaluation from the kit and publish anonymized results.

Repeatable POCs shorten the sales cycle and make wins comparable.

• Labs need custom work

  Keep a fixed core and a small custom part.

• HiringGTM Engineer (Berkeley, posted July 27, 2026): buyers are "researchers, research computing teams, and technical evaluators at national labs and enterprise R&D orgs who will not take our word for it. They want to see it work, poke at the API"; duties include "sample MCP servers", "Build and develop landing pages and measure success", "Support sales and solutions engineering on technical evaluations, POCs, and RFPs with national labs", GitHub and Discord presence, and "Prototype and test PLG mechanics — self-serve onboarding flows, in-product activation nudges".Source
• Your websiteBond pricing: Individual is free, "100 calls a day while unverified" and "1,000 calls a week when you verify a work email", "No card needed"; Teams is "$499 /month" billed annually ($599 month-to-month) for "10,000 calls a month" and unlimited seats; Enterprise is custom, "Unlimited calls", with private cloud, on-prem or air-gapped options. Bond names three audiences: researchers, "institutions and R&D teams", and "AI tool builders".Source
• Your websiteHomepage: "The Home for People-Centered, AI-Accelerated Research"; MCP Bond connects "500+ million papers and preprints" to any LLM, "Free for academics and non-profits"; "Roughly 35 million researchers worldwide"; "One connector, 38 tools"; a quote from a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; "Built with a leading national laboratory".Source

When a work is published, email the corresponding authors of a few key references: "A new paper builds on yours; read, comment or endorse." Limit to one invite a month per person, and show endorsements on the work.

It brings expert reviewers and new users in one step, and each review makes Hub more useful.

• Feels like spam

  Strict limits and an easy opt-out.

• Valency HubHub homepage: "Publish your AI-assisted work here. It's versioned like code. Checked by machines before you publish. Reviewed and endorsed by verified humans, in the open"; featured collections include papers by or about the 2026 Nobel laureates (30 works) and recent AI-assisted math and computer science results; sign-up with Google, Microsoft or GitHub.Source
• HiringTechnical Product Manager (posted July 31, 2026): Valency "sits between three audiences — skeptical academia, results-driven enterprise, and AI-forward amplifiers"; the role balances "enterprise/national-lab requirements against open-platform, product-led growth models", owns "quality-control and trust safeguards for open-access products", and values "two-sided platform dynamics — marketplace growth, user-generated content quality control". A full-stack engineer was also posted on September 18.Source
• Your websiteHub page on valency.io: "Think GitHub, for science: publish in the open, follow and fork any paper"; "In some fields, up to 90% of new papers show signs of" AI assistance; free for individual researchers, "Private workspaces and deployments for teams and institutions".Source
• HiringCommunity Manager (Berkeley, posted October 9, 2026), Valency's first: "Researchers can smell a sales pitch from a mile away. They trust tools their peers use, papers their peers share"; "Valency Hub just opened as a public alpha"; duties include "Recruit researchers to publish, discover, and discuss on Valency Hub", run Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, YouTube and Discord, host "office hours, AMAs with researchers, demos, and journal-club style discussions", in-person meetups "across Bay Area campuses", and build "Clear attribution from community activity to sign-ups and usage". The post says MCP Bond connects AI systems "to tens of millions of papers and preprints".Source

Re-cut the best ten videos into one-minute clips, add transcripts and chapters, post the clips on the other channels, and start one recurring format (a five-minute "paper of the week").

The content already exists; short formats and a series give it an audience.

• Low production quality

  Clear audio matters more than visuals.

• Social channelsYouTube @valencyio: 23 subscribers, 38 videos, 1,287 total views. Valency is also on Bluesky, X, LinkedIn and Discord, and runs a newsletter on Buttondown.Source
• HiringCommunity Manager (Berkeley, posted October 9, 2026), Valency's first: "Researchers can smell a sales pitch from a mile away. They trust tools their peers use, papers their peers share"; "Valency Hub just opened as a public alpha"; duties include "Recruit researchers to publish, discover, and discuss on Valency Hub", run Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, YouTube and Discord, host "office hours, AMAs with researchers, demos, and journal-club style discussions", in-person meetups "across Bay Area campuses", and build "Clear attribution from community activity to sign-ups and usage". The post says MCP Bond connects AI systems "to tens of millions of papers and preprints".Source

Add UTM links to every post and event, give each event and ambassador a code, ask "where did you hear about Valency?" at sign-up, and build a simple weekly dashboard.

Knowing which activities bring active users lets a small team spend time where it works.

• Self-reported answers vary

  Combine with UTM data.

• HiringCommunity Manager (Berkeley, posted October 9, 2026), Valency's first: "Researchers can smell a sales pitch from a mile away. They trust tools their peers use, papers their peers share"; "Valency Hub just opened as a public alpha"; duties include "Recruit researchers to publish, discover, and discuss on Valency Hub", run Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, YouTube and Discord, host "office hours, AMAs with researchers, demos, and journal-club style discussions", in-person meetups "across Bay Area campuses", and build "Clear attribution from community activity to sign-ups and usage". The post says MCP Bond connects AI systems "to tens of millions of papers and preprints".Source
• HiringGTM Engineer (Berkeley, posted July 27, 2026): buyers are "researchers, research computing teams, and technical evaluators at national labs and enterprise R&D orgs who will not take our word for it. They want to see it work, poke at the API"; duties include "sample MCP servers", "Build and develop landing pages and measure success", "Support sales and solutions engineering on technical evaluations, POCs, and RFPs with national labs", GitHub and Discord presence, and "Prototype and test PLG mechanics — self-serve onboarding flows, in-product activation nudges".Source

Pick three meetings across Valency's strongest fields (astronomy, computational biology, machine learning), run a "bring your question" live demo table or workshop, and sponsor one hackathon prize for the best Bond integration.

In-person demos on attendees' own questions convert skeptics, and hackathons create example code.

• High cost per lead

  Prefer workshops over booths.

• HiringCommunity Manager (Berkeley, posted October 9, 2026), Valency's first: "Researchers can smell a sales pitch from a mile away. They trust tools their peers use, papers their peers share"; "Valency Hub just opened as a public alpha"; duties include "Recruit researchers to publish, discover, and discuss on Valency Hub", run Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, YouTube and Discord, host "office hours, AMAs with researchers, demos, and journal-club style discussions", in-person meetups "across Bay Area campuses", and build "Clear attribution from community activity to sign-ups and usage". The post says MCP Bond connects AI systems "to tens of millions of papers and preprints".Source
• HiringGTM Engineer (Berkeley, posted July 27, 2026): buyers are "researchers, research computing teams, and technical evaluators at national labs and enterprise R&D orgs who will not take our word for it. They want to see it work, poke at the API"; duties include "sample MCP servers", "Build and develop landing pages and measure success", "Support sales and solutions engineering on technical evaluations, POCs, and RFPs with national labs", GitHub and Discord presence, and "Prototype and test PLG mechanics — self-serve onboarding flows, in-product activation nudges".Source
• Your websitePress kit and team: the CEO is a UC Berkeley astronomy professor whose previous AI company was acquired by GE; the Head of Science has founded national open-science and research-software initiatives; media contact [email protected].Source

Make Hub the documented home for additional and versioned work: clear licensing, DOIs, Scholar indexing, and a one-click path to post on arXiv later. Explain it in a post written with researchers, not against arXiv.

A real constraint creates demand for a trusted alternative, and Hub is built for versioned, reviewed work.

• Seen as competing with arXiv

  Advisory board input and a cooperative tone.

• #1 Make every Hub paper findable in Google Scholar, so researchers have a reason to publish there

• Valency blogBlog posts: "Valency Bond Is Live for All Users" (October 1, 2026: "instantly access over 44.5 million papers"); "Valency Hub: A new home for research" (October 6); a Hub collection of 722 AI-assisted math results (October 6); "arXiv is tapping the brakes" on "A cap of two submissions a month" (October 1); advisory board posts on the creator of IPython and Jupyter and on arXiv's scientific director (September 15).Source
• Your websiteHub page on valency.io: "Think GitHub, for science: publish in the open, follow and fork any paper"; "In some fields, up to 90% of new papers show signs of" AI assistance; free for individual researchers, "Private workspaces and deployments for teams and institutions".Source
• Valency HubHub work pages (checked October 22, 2026, two samples) are server-rendered with title, authors, abstract and share-card images, but carry no citation_title, citation_author or citation_pdf_url meta tags and no ScholarlyArticle structured data; one sample showed "1 view". The Hub sitemap lists 13 URLs (home, works index, submit, collections and docs) and no individual works.Source
• Valency HubHub homepage: "Publish your AI-assisted work here. It's versioned like code. Checked by machines before you publish. Reviewed and endorsed by verified humans, in the open"; featured collections include papers by or about the 2026 Nobel laureates (30 works) and recent AI-assisted math and computer science results; sign-up with Google, Microsoft or GitHub.Source

Publish a short quarterly report: AI-assisted works by field, review activity, common questions, how authors credit AI. Release it with a webinar and offer the data to journalists.

Original data makes Valency the reference on a hot topic and brings press, links and AI citations.

• Small early data

  Start with Hub plus public sources.

• Your websiteHub page on valency.io: "Think GitHub, for science: publish in the open, follow and fork any paper"; "In some fields, up to 90% of new papers show signs of" AI assistance; free for individual researchers, "Private workspaces and deployments for teams and institutions".Source
• Your websiteResources page: a directory of 31 AI systems for research (co-scientists, AI reviewers, autonomous labs) filterable by field and access, ending "come back and publish it on Valency Hub", plus a guide on "How to credit the AI you used".Source
• Valency HubHub homepage: "Publish your AI-assisted work here. It's versioned like code. Checked by machines before you publish. Reviewed and endorsed by verified humans, in the open"; featured collections include papers by or about the 2026 Nobel laureates (30 works) and recent AI-assisted math and computer science results; sign-up with Google, Microsoft or GitHub.Source
• Your websitePress kit and team: the CEO is a UC Berkeley astronomy professor whose previous AI company was acquired by GE; the Head of Science has founded national open-science and research-software initiatives; media contact [email protected].Source

Design a campus license (single sign-on, usage reporting, training) priced per institution, pilot it with two universities where verified usage clusters, and publish a librarian guide.

One campus deal covers thousands of users and turns grassroots use into revenue.

• Slow budget cycles

  Start pilots before budget season.

• Your websiteBond pricing: Individual is free, "100 calls a day while unverified" and "1,000 calls a week when you verify a work email", "No card needed"; Teams is "$499 /month" billed annually ($599 month-to-month) for "10,000 calls a month" and unlimited seats; Enterprise is custom, "Unlimited calls", with private cloud, on-prem or air-gapped options. Bond names three audiences: researchers, "institutions and R&D teams", and "AI tool builders".Source
• Your websitePress kit and team: the CEO is a UC Berkeley astronomy professor whose previous AI company was acquired by GE; the Head of Science has founded national open-science and research-software initiatives; media contact [email protected].Source
• HiringTechnical Product Manager (posted July 31, 2026): Valency "sits between three audiences — skeptical academia, results-driven enterprise, and AI-forward amplifiers"; the role balances "enterprise/national-lab requirements against open-platform, product-led growth models", owns "quality-control and trust safeguards for open-access products", and values "two-sided platform dynamics — marketplace growth, user-generated content quality control". A full-stack engineer was also posted on September 18.Source

Offer a small badge and a citation line authors can add to any paper, listing the AI systems used, with a link to a Hub record. Promote it with the resources directory.

A useful disclosure standard spreads on its own, and every badge links back to Hub.

• Seen as self-promotion

  Keep it neutral and open.

• Your websiteResources page: a directory of 31 AI systems for research (co-scientists, AI reviewers, autonomous labs) filterable by field and access, ending "come back and publish it on Valency Hub", plus a guide on "How to credit the AI you used".Source
• Your websiteHub page on valency.io: "Think GitHub, for science: publish in the open, follow and fork any paper"; "In some fields, up to 90% of new papers show signs of" AI assistance; free for individual researchers, "Private workspaces and deployments for teams and institutions".Source
• Valency HubHub homepage: "Publish your AI-assisted work here. It's versioned like code. Checked by machines before you publish. Reviewed and endorsed by verified humans, in the open"; featured collections include papers by or about the 2026 Nobel laureates (30 works) and recent AI-assisted math and computer science results; sign-up with Google, Microsoft or GitHub.Source

Let users pick keywords or authors at sign-up and send a weekly digest of new work with one-line summaries and links to Hub. Use the newsletter tool already in place.

A weekly email keeps Valency in front of researchers who do not use AI assistants daily.

• Noisy results

  Let users rate items.

• Your websitevalency.io sitemap: 13 URLs; the only audience page is /bond/for/researchers/, which shows four real jobs ("stay current", "build reading lists", "verify claims", "map people") as transcripts; there are no pages for institutions, research computing teams or AI tool builders.Source
• Social channelsYouTube @valencyio: 23 subscribers, 38 videos, 1,287 total views. Valency is also on Bluesky, X, LinkedIn and Discord, and runs a newsletter on Buttondown.Source
• Valency blogBlog posts: "Valency Bond Is Live for All Users" (October 1, 2026: "instantly access over 44.5 million papers"); "Valency Hub: A new home for research" (October 6); a Hub collection of 722 AI-assisted math results (October 6); "arXiv is tapping the brakes" on "A cap of two submissions a month" (October 1); advisory board posts on the creator of IPython and Jupyter and on arXiv's scientific director (September 15).Source