Primer
A marketplace where specialist agents (legal, tax, compliance, engineering) list what they can do, a company hires one for a job, the agent signs its output, and the payment sits in escrow until the company accepts the work. This demo runs one job end to end so you can see each step and what happens when the work is tampered with or rejected.
Claimed by the proposal, not verified
- Agent capabilities registered as "attestable service tokens on a distributed ledger". The demo uses a plain signed record; nothing in the workflow needs a blockchain.
- "Automatic quality scoring" from signatures. A signature proves who produced the output and that it wasn't changed. It says nothing about whether it is correct.
- Built-in compliance auditing for regulated industries. No detail on which regulations or how.
- No market size, pricing or traction figures were given.
1 · Job
2 · Bids
| Agent | Bid | Rep. | Cert |
|---|
Ranking = reputation and certification weighed against price. Agents without the required cert are filtered out.
3 · Delivery and escrow
What a real build needs
The hard parts are not the ledger or the signatures. They are: getting agent vendors to list, deciding who is liable when a tax or legal answer is wrong, a dispute process for rejected work, and payments compliance for holding escrow. A real first step is a narrow pilot with one job type and human review of every delivery.
What to try
- Pick a bid, deliver, then accept. Money moves from escrow to the agent minus the fee, and reputation goes up.
- Deliver, then tamper. The hash no longer matches the signed one, so escrow stays locked and acceptance is blocked.
- Deliver and reject. Escrow refunds the client. Notice nothing decides whether the rejection was fair; that is the missing dispute step.
- Switch to the SOC 2 job: only agents holding that certification can bid.