A business with a campaign. A walker ready to go.
The next chapter connects businesses that need neighborhoods covered with independent walkers looking for local work. The same campaign, flyer, and evidence system supports both sides.
- Businesses post the coverage they want
- Walkers choose the work
- Evidence and payment built into the job
In development. It is not available, and no pay, earnings or supply is promised.
In development. Not available yet.
It is not open. Here is what has to be true first.
This is the marketplace vision, not an open paid marketplace. The walker experience is a prototype, and payments and verification run on simulated workflows. No payout has been sent to anyone. No jobs, earnings or payout timing are promised.
| No. | What has to be true | What exists today | What is still missing | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | A business can be charged for real. | Plans and flyer orders run on simulated payments. No card is charged anywhere in the product. | A production payment integration that replaces the simulated path. | Simulated only |
| 02 | Money for a job can be held, released and returned. | A double-entry ledger exists in the database. Every transaction must sum to zero and entries cannot be edited after the fact. The charges in it are simulated. | Holding real funds from the moment a job is posted until the route is verified, expires or is rejected. The flow of funds still needs legal review. | Simulated only |
| 03 | Delivery evidence is strong enough to pay on. | The GPS trail, rule-based checks for driving and for too few steps, and QR scans as an independent signal. The result is advisory today and never holds back pay. | A learned verification model, photo checkpoints, and a review path staffed by a person. | Partly built |
| 04 | Every walker is identified, vetted, trained and has consented. | Records for applications, documents, training and three separate consents. A prototype onboarding flow with a short quiz, where the identity and payout step is a stand-in and says so on screen. | A background-check provider, real identity verification and the full training course. | Prototype |
| 05 | The ledger is proven on real deliveries before it moves money. | A reconciliation check that tests the books against themselves. | Running it as accounting only over verified crew deliveries, with no transfers, until the numbers hold. | Not started |
| 06 | Someone owns the loss when a paid job is later disputed. | The ledger design sets aside a loss reserve each time a job is released. | The decision itself. Who absorbs a reversed payment is a policy question that code cannot answer. | Undecided |
One job, seen from both sides.
The same campaign, flyer and evidence records serve the business and the walker. The states in the middle row are the planned life of a single route.
| 1 Set up | 2 Hand off | 3 Walk | 4 Close out | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A business commissions the coverage | Define the campaign, the territory, the flyer quantity and the delivery window. | Prepare a coded flyer bundle with a clear handoff. | Follow the delivery record as the route is covered. | Reconcile the bundle, then measure the response through the website you already have. |
| State of the job | DraftPosted | Claimed | In progress | SubmittedVerified |
| A walker chooses the work | Complete the required onboarding and training before any route is visible. | Review a route’s scope and terms before accepting, then pick up the assigned bundle. | Complete the route with the phone recording the walk. | Count back the flyers that were not delivered and review the work record. |
- Expired
- Nobody claimed the job before its listing window closed.
- Released
- A walker gave the job back before starting. It returns to the pool, so a route cannot be claimed and sat on.
- Rejected
- The evidence did not support the delivery. A walker has to be able to dispute this.
- Disputed
- A business contests a verified job. Any release is frozen until it is resolved.
Six gates before a walker sees a route.
Opening to the public means vetting, training and certification, in this order. A walker who has not passed cannot claim work.
Identity and sign-up Stand-in screen
A real identity and the details needed to be paid.
Background check No provider yet
A hard gate. Walkers go door to door through residential streets on behalf of a business, and the check is repeated over time.
Consent Records built
Separate, withdrawable consent for motion capture, for model training and for the background check. Nothing is captured before consent.
Training Prototype
Short lessons on the standards in the table beside this list.
Certification quiz 3-question prototype
A pass is required to activate, with re-certification later.
Probation Designed
First routes are checked more closely before full access.
| Do | Do not |
|---|---|
| On the door, in the handle or weighted on the porch, secured so it cannot blow away. | In or on a mailbox, on a car, or anywhere it will scatter. |
| One flyer per home. | Doubling up, or leaving a stack. |
| Leave the flyer and move on. This is delivery, not sales. | Knocking or ringing. |
| Skip a home with a No Soliciting sign and log the skip. | Leaving a flyer there anyway. |
| Stay on the path to the door and leave gates as they were found. | Entering posted property or opening a latched gate. |
| Daylight hours and the posted campaign window. | Late deliveries. |
| Back away from dogs, icy steps or an upset resident, and skip the home. | Pressing on to finish the count. |
Some municipalities require a permit for door-to-door distribution. Local rules are part of the training, and they differ by city.
What a walk can and cannot prove.
Paying a stranger for a route means leaning on evidence. Each signal answers one narrow question, and some are far easier to fake than others.
| Signal | The question it answers | Effort to fake | In the product today |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPS trail | Where the phone went | Low. A location can be spoofed. | Built |
| Steps against distance | On foot, or in a vehicle | High. The hardest thing to fake from a car seat. | Rule-based check |
| Sustained speed | Walking pace, or driving | Medium. | Rule-based check |
| Stops and weaving | Whether the walk looks like a delivery | Medium. | Captured, not scored |
| QR scans | A resident held the flyer and scanned it | Very high. It is outside the walker’s control. | Built |
| Photo checkpoints | What the place looked like at that time | High, with the in-app camera only. | Not built |
The order it opens in.
Trust and payment come before scale. This is a sequence and not a schedule, so there are no dates on it. Each step ships only when the one before it holds.
- 1
Walker identity and vetting
Profiles, identity checks and the background-check gate.
No jobs, no money - 2
The ledger, as accounting only
The books run over verified crew deliveries to prove the math.
No transfers - 3
Jobs for a business’s own crew
The full job lifecycle, claimable only by people the business already invited.
Invite only - 4
Vetted walkers outside the crew
The first point at which money would reach someone the business did not hire. One city at a time.
Every condition met first - 5
Tuning from real data
Pricing rules and the learned verification model, adjusted on evidence.
Ongoing
Questions we can answer, and ones we cannot yet.
Some of these are still open inside the team. They are listed here so nobody plans around an answer that does not exist.
See what crews can use todayCan I sign up as a walker today?
No. There is no public walker sign-up, no open jobs and no payouts. Joining the early-access list gets you the tools that exist now, and news when this changes.
What will a route pay?
That is not decided. Whether a job pays a flat amount or scales with verified deliveries is an open question, and no figure will appear here until the payment rules and a real payment integration exist.
How are walkers engaged, legally?
The intended model is independent work, where people choose the jobs they take. How that is structured is being settled with legal advice before anyone is onboarded.
How does a walker get the printed flyers?
This is unsolved. A walker is not at the business’s shop, so the bundle needs a pickup point or a shipment. The design records the handoff by scanning the bundle, but the logistics around it are not worked out yet.
Does a walker see which business posted a job?
Undecided. Showing the name early reveals the customer relationship. Hiding it gives a walker less to go on. The current leaning is to show the area and the terms first and the name once the job is claimed.
Which cities come first?
One city at a time, starting where businesses already run campaigns. The private beta itself starts in Edmonton, Alberta.
What happens if the evidence gets it wrong?
A wrong call would hold back money a person earned. That is why a human review path and a dispute process are launch conditions and not extras.
Can my own crew use any of this now?
Yes. Territories, crew invites, shift tracking and QR codes are in the private beta for a business walking its own routes.
Be on the list when it opens.
The marketplace is in development. The tools it is built on are in private beta now.
- Join the list
- Get your invite by email
- Walk your first street