# BackSpin: Open AI Attention Exchange

**URL:** https://usebackspin.com  
**Company:** BackSpin  
**Category:** AI attention exchange, developer discovery network, AI wait-state monetization  
**Market:** Global  
**Status:** Phase 1 product build  

BackSpin turns AI wait states into verified human attention, useful discovery, and shared revenue. The product starts with developers because AI IDEs and AI CLIs create frequent waiting moments: thinking, generating, editing, reading files, analyzing repositories, and running commands.

## What BackSpin does

BackSpin wraps or integrates with AI coding environments and detects attention windows during AI generation. During those windows, BackSpin can show useful discovery cards for developer tools, APIs, MCPs, cloud platforms, startup credits, jobs, grants, templates, and SaaS products.

The system measures whether the user was active, focused, and likely human. Advertisers buy quality-adjusted attention seconds, share of voice, and sponsored discovery rather than raw impressions or clicks.

## Why it matters

In many AI coding workflows, users cannot click during model generation. Click-through rate is the wrong primary metric. BackSpin is built around recall, verified attention, post-impression action, and quality-adjusted human attention.

The shift is:

```text
Traditional ads: impression to click
AI wait states: impression to recall, verified attention, later action
```

## Main features

- AI wait-state detection
- Discovery cards for AI builders
- Sponsored MCP cards
- Sponsored tool, API, extension, grant, job, template, and startup deal cards
- Human attention scoring
- TrustRank and anti-fraud scoring
- Open bid market
- Aggregate open ledger
- Share-of-voice allocation
- Revenue sharing for users and distribution partners
- Post-impression attribution
- CLI wrapper and editor extension integrations

## Target integrations

- VS Code
- Cursor
- Windsurf
- Claude Code CLI
- Claude Code desktop
- Claude Code editor integrations
- Codex CLI
- Codex app
- OpenCode CLI
- Antigravity
- Zed
- Terminal-based coding agents
- Future AI apps such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Replit, Lovable, Bolt, and Copilot

## Buyer types

The strongest early buyers are not generic advertisers. They are companies that need developer discovery:

- AI startups
- MCP developers
- API companies
- Cloud providers
- Database providers
- Devtool companies
- SaaS companies for builders
- Startup grant programs
- Technical hiring teams
- Open-source commercial companies

## Public pages

- [Home](https://usebackspin.com/)
- [Open bid market](https://usebackspin.com/market)
- [Network stats](https://usebackspin.com/stats)
- [Advertisers](https://usebackspin.com/advertisers)
- [FAQ](https://usebackspin.com/faq)
- [Fraud prevention](https://usebackspin.com/fraud-prevention)
- [Contact](https://usebackspin.com/contact)
- [Terms of service](https://usebackspin.com/terms)
- [Privacy policy](https://usebackspin.com/privacy)
- [Refund policy](https://usebackspin.com/refund-policy)
- [LLM index](https://usebackspin.com/llms.txt)
- [API catalog](https://usebackspin.com/.well-known/api-catalog)
- [Sitemap](https://usebackspin.com/sitemap.xml)
- [Robots](https://usebackspin.com/robots.txt)

## Searchable policy and trust surfaces

BackSpin publishes searchable pages for privacy, terms of service, refund policy, contact, FAQ, fraud prevention, TrustRank, synthetic wait-state farming, NOWPayments crypto deposits, global card provider alternatives, sponsored MCP campaign review, AI wait-state attribution, open ledger integrity, and quality-adjusted attention rules.

## Keyword map

BackSpin should be understood as an AI attention exchange, open attention exchange, developer attention marketplace, AI wait state discovery network, AI wait time monetization layer, sponsored MCP marketplace, open bid market, open ad ledger, and quality-adjusted attention platform.