# Pay after you read: what changed in v1.1.0, sgit.ai > The changes to the article "Pay after you read" in v1.1.0, paragraph by paragraph. *Source: · site v0.7.39 · this file is generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift. Every page on this site has a `.md` twin; internal links below point at them.* --- [Home](../../../index.md) / [Articles](../../index.md) / [Pay after you read](../../pay-after-you-read.md) / [Versions](../pay-after-you-read.md) / v1.1.0 # Pay after you read: what changed in v1.1.0 From v1.0.0 (2026-10-10, `75b94297e`) to v1.1.0 (2026-10-10, this release), paragraph by paragraph. 8 paragraphs added, 0 removed, 0 changed in place, 76 unchanged. About 518 words added and 0 removed. Insertions are marked like this, deletions like this; unchanged runs are folded to one line; figures appear as their file names. [all versions](../pay-after-you-read.md) 10 unchanged paragraphs, under In short • **It is the ILC zigzag at work.** Every layer underneath, from sgit in March to the newsrooms in September, matured until it was invisible, and so the next could be built on it. 42 unchanged paragraphs, under What a reader gets now {#features}, Pay after you see the value {#after}, Every decision started with the reader {#reader-first}… ## The zigzag: innovate, leverage, commoditise {#ilc} [figure pv-zigzag-anim.webp] The same story at a larger scale, built up one layer at a time: each layer matured until it was invisible, and that is what made the next one possible. The map of the afternoon shows one day. The same pattern runs through the whole project, and Simon Wardley has a name for it: ILC, innovate, leverage, commoditise. You "take an existing product that is relatively well defined and commonplace and turn it into an industrialised utility", then "encourage and enable other companies to innovate by building on top of your utility", and "you then repeat this virtuous circle" ([Wardley, 2016](https://blog.gardeviance.org/2016/08/the-play-and-decision-to-act.html)). His map of it has a platform growing on the right as each component is industrialised, with new things being built on the left. Drawn for this project, it is a zigzag. Here, a thing is commoditised when it becomes invisible: when the layer above can use it without thinking about it. 1. **sgit**, encrypted vaults from a command line. The first release was on 4 March 2026, as sg-send-cli 0.3.0, and after 88 releases it is sgit-ai 0.20.0. Once it just worked, vaults could hold more than files. 2. **Vaults that open as apps**: HTML in a vault, a read key in the browser. The first on this site was published on 16 August; there are 53 now. Once that was routine, a vault could be an experiment of its own. 3. **Claude sessions with a repository and a vault**, which is the layer we did not build. Agents with no other access, using a vault as their memory and their shared drive. When that became ordinary, building a website became a conversation. 4. **Websites built and released by agents**: sgit.ai from v0.1.1 on 11 August to v0.7.39 today, with gates on every release. Once a release was routine, a site could be a product of its own. 5. **Newsrooms**: sgit.newsroom and pt.newsroom, where the one-cent wallet appeared by 27 September. Once the newsroom worked, it could carry an experiment in paying. 6. **SG Meter**, the reading meter, from v1.0 at 12:09 to v1.3 at 15:49 on 10 October. 7. **At the top, the reader**: read on demand, pay for use and for value. From the reader's side it already just works: open a page, read it, choose what it was worth. Every layer under it is invisible to them, which is the point. The speed of the afternoon is the zigzag at work. Every time I tried something and it was solid, it became something to stand on: this is working, now do this, now do that. Each step was small because the steps under it had stopped needing attention. [figure pv-zigzag.webp] The whole zigzag. Solid arrows are a thing maturing, until it is invisible; dashed arrows are what its maturity made possible, one layer up. 24 unchanged paragraphs, under Why it could go this fast {#fast}, Do we have all the pieces? {#pieces}, Want to try it on your site? {#others}… [all versions](../pay-after-you-read.md) --- *[Site index for agents](../../../llms.txt) · [HTML version](https://sgit.ai/articles/versions/pay-after-you-read/v1.1.0.html)*