What we work on
We build trust infrastructure, tools that help strangers agree on something and carry the agreement through. This page explains what we believe and where the tools are heading.
The problem
Trust between strangers is expensive. People pay notaries and lawyers, leave deposits, and hire middlemen to stand between two parties who have never met. Each of these costs money and time, and each only exists because the parties cannot see what the other side will do.
Where that cost is too high, nothing happens. Two neighbours do not repair a shared roof, a freelancer does not take a job from a stranger abroad, a small group does not pool money for a project. People simply do not do business with each other. We are interested in that missing activity.
What we believe
- What is invisible does not exist. A problem, a promise or a payment that nobody can see cannot be discussed, let alone solved.
- An agreement without recorded parameters is not an agreement. It needs to say what will be done, who is responsible, what it costs and by when.
- The platform must not be a party. It records what people agreed and did. It does not promise anything on their behalf.
- Proof is cheaper than arbitration. A clear record settles most disagreements before anyone has to judge them.
- A tool has to be useful on day one, to one person alone. If it only works once everyone has joined, it will not get started.
How the tools connect
The tools follow one chain: visibility, then agreement, then execution, then proof.
It starts with visibility. A fact is recorded with a photo, a time and a place, and stops being one person’s opinion. Agreement comes next. The discussion ends in a decision: what we do, who answers for it, what it costs, and by when. Execution is the work itself, done by the people involved. The platform stays out of it. Proof closes the chain. What was agreed and what was done sit in one record that either side can show to a third party.
Each step is useful on its own. Together they let two people who do not know each other go from “I see a problem” to “it is done, and here is the record”.
Where this is going
Two directions come after the current tools, with no dates attached.
- Commons is about managing shared property: who owns what, who pays, who decides.
- Arbitrator is about resolving disputes with the help of AI, working from the record the parties have already built.