The web is closing to AI. One harbor at a time.
Your AI assistant was trained on an open web that no longer exists. The platforms locked the harbors — and every quarter, "just paste the link into Claude" works on less of the internet.
X goes pay-per-read
No free tier. $0.005 every time an app reads a post. Nobody can afford the front door.
Reddit raises the drawbridge
The old .json trick every AI tool relied on: dead. Commercial API starts at $12,000/year.
YouTube keeps its captions
The official API hands transcripts only to a video's owner. Server-side fetching gets IP-blocked.
Cloudflare bars the gate
AI crawlers get turned away from a huge share of the web — as the default setting.
A skiff draws no water. It sails right in.
Big ships — crawlers, scrapers, AI fetchers — can't get near the shore anymore. Skiff rides in your browser, where you're already logged in, and carries out what you can already see.
Tap save
On the post, thread, video, or article you're reading. One tap in Chrome — or the share sheet on iPhone. That's the whole job.
Skiff stows it clean
Threads stitched in order. Videos transcribed to clean text. Articles stripped to the words. Filed in your library, searchable forever.
Claude reads it
Connect once — 60 seconds, we timed it. Then in any conversation: "What did that thread I saved say about…" and Claude just knows.
What Skiff carries
Posts & full threads
Stitched in order, quote-tweets included, with links back to the source.
Videos → transcripts
Clean, punctuated text — not the auto-caption soup. Ask Claude about any video you've watched.
Threads & top comments
The post and the discussion that made it worth saving.
Any page you can read
Including subscriptions you pay for. If your eyes can see it, your skiff can carry it.
Screenshots
That tweet screenshot someone texted you? Save it — Skiff reads the text right out of the image.
Instagram & TikTok
Captions and spoken words from the videos everyone sends you.
One customer: you.
Your saves are visible to exactly one person — you. No ads. No data sales. No second customer you never see. Export everything as clean text, anytime, no asking permission.
"It's your library. We're just the boat."
Simple fares. No hidden cargo.
Deckhand
- 50 free saves to start, then 10 a month
- Claude connector included
- Full library & search
- +5 saves/month per friend you bring aboard
First Mate
- Unlimited saves
- Video transcription included
- Screenshot text capture
- Full-text export, always
- iPhone app when it ships
Founding Crew
- Everything in First Mate, for life
- Numbered crew badge (#001–#200)
- Direct line to the builder
- Your name in the ship's log
Fair questions
Is this allowed?
Skiff saves what you're already looking at, in your own logged-in browser, for your own private reference — like a bookmark that finally remembers what it pointed to. Nothing is crawled, nothing is bulk-collected, and nothing you save is ever shared, published, or shown to another person. Your library is yours alone.
Does it work with ChatGPT too?
Claude first — that's where we live. ChatGPT support is on the chart for later this year.
What happens to my library if Skiff sinks?
You export everything as clean text or markdown, anytime, free plan included. We're the boat, not the harbor — your cargo is always yours to carry off.
How does Claude actually read my saves?
You add your personal Skiff connector to Claude once (Settings → Connectors → paste your link — about 60 seconds). After that, Claude can search and read your library from any device, in any conversation. No copy-paste, ever again.
Why not just screenshot things into Claude?
You can! For one image at a time, once, in one conversation. Skiff makes it permanent: every save is searchable text Claude can find next week, next month, across everything you've ever kept.