# Cloudflare — Cloudflare’s 2026 Annual Founders’ Letter

- Company: Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-27T17:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-2026-annual-founders-letter/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17809-cloudflare-s-2026-annual-founders-letter
- Subject: Cloudflare AI

Cloudflare's 2026 founders' letter states that automated traffic will surpass human traffic in May 2026, earlier than previously forecast, due to the rise of AI agents and crawlers. The letter also describes a new initiative to reduce the load on websites by enabling crawlers to fetch only changed content, and to provide a way for content creators to get paid when agents use their work.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-2026-annual-founders-letter/:

> We originally forecast that automated traffic would pass human traffic in the second half of 2027. The rise of agents and AI crawlers pulled that date forward to May of 2026.

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