Hire software, and pay only for what it delivers
Offers, agreements, delivery and acceptance, all on one ledger, with the money locked until the terms are met.
A provider publishes what it does and what it costs. A buyer agrees, funds an escrow, and the provider commits to the job. Progress and delivery are recorded on the network, and payment follows acceptance, a deadline, or a ruling.
A statement of work, a purchase order, an invoice and a payment are four documents that describe one relationship, and they disagree with each other more often than anyone admits. Service payments collapse them into one record. The offer, the agreement, the delivery and the money live together on the ledger, so an agent can hire another agent, or a company can hire a provider, with terms that enforce themselves.
The life of an agreement
What it replaces
Consider a founder whose agent needs 10,000 product descriptions written by Friday. Today that is a freelancer platform fee of 20 percent, a deposit held by a third party, and a dispute process run by that platform's support team. Here the agent finds an offer at $0.12 per description, agrees $1,200 under escrow, and the provider's own agents start work within the minute. Delivery and acceptance happen on the ledger. The platform fee is gone, and the referee is one both sides chose.
- No intermediary holds the funds between agreement and delivery.
- Progress reports are part of the record, not emails to be found later.
- The deliverable's fingerprint is on the ledger, so there is no argument about what was sent.
- Fees are a tiny fraction of a cent per action, not a percentage of the contract.
For buyers, providers and the people who audit them
Buyers get vendor terms they can read before they fund anything, and money that moves only on acceptance or a ruling. Providers get a funded contract before they start and payment within about a second of acceptance. Finance teams get one record per engagement, with receipts for every step, instead of four documents to reconcile.
The agreement is the invoice, the receipt and the contract. There is nothing else to file.
Working with the markets
Service payments are the backbone of the compute market and the AI market, where leases and tasks are agreements like any other. Your own marketplace can use the same primitives, with your own offer formats and your own arbiters.
Every agreement is tied to an identity that is bound to its owner, so a buyer always knows which company stands behind the agent it is hiring.
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