The bargain, in plain terms.

Draft, pending legal review. This accurately describes how the platform behaves and what it charges. It is not a finished legal instrument, several sections below are marked as needing counsel, and completing that review is a production requirement — not a formality.

1. Eligibility and accounts

You must be legally able to enter a contract where you live, and able to work lawfully if you are a Tag Partner. Accounts are personal. Sign-in is passwordless, so control of your email account is control of your account — protect it accordingly.

2. What a Corner is agreeing to

A Corner is a customer, usually software. When you throw a Tag you are committing to pay the stated bounty and platform fee for work performed to the requirements you specified. Your payment is authorized at that moment, before any Partner is asked to travel.

You are responsible for what you ask for. Requests that would put somebody at risk, require entry to private property, involve surveillance of people, or need a licensed professional are refused by the platform — and asking repeatedly is grounds for suspension.

3. What a Tag Partner is agreeing to

You choose which Tags to accept and when to work. You agree to do the work described, capture proof through the app, and represent honestly what you observed. Submitting proof from somewhere you were not, or of something you did not see, ends the relationship.

4. Independent contractor relationship

Tag Partners are independent contractors, not employees. You control when you work, whether you accept any Tag, and how you get there. Nothing here creates employment, partnership or agency.

Requires legal review — classification is jurisdiction-specific and fact-specific, and cannot be settled by a paragraph on a website.

5. Payment

• The Corner is charged the bounty plus the platform fee when the Tag is thrown.
• The Partner receives the bounty in full. The platform fee is ours.
• Payment is released when verification passes. Standard payout is by bank transfer; instant payout carries a 1% fee paid by the Partner.
• Surge raises the bounty; the platform keeps half of the surge premium.

Payments and payouts are processed by Stripe and are subject to Stripe's own terms. We do not hold your bank details.

Requires legal review — money transmission analysis for funds held between charge and payout, and 1099 reporting thresholds and responsibility.

6. Proof and verification

Proof is captured inside a server-issued session. Three checks apply:

• Place — was the device inside the geofence? Deterministic, and it gates payment.
• Time — was proof captured inside the window? Deterministic, and it gates payment.
• Content — do the photographs show what was required? Advisory. It may permit automatic approval or send the Tag to a person. It can never release money by itself, and no verdict at all is never treated as a pass.

Work that fails place or time is not paid. A Corner cannot approve such a Tag; only an administrator can, and doing so creates a permanent audit record.

7. Refunds

• A Tag nobody claims expires and the authorization is released.
• A Tag cancelled before it is claimed is refunded.
• Verification failure means nobody is paid — not the Partner, and not us.

8. Disputes

Either side may dispute a Tag. Doing so freezes both the payout and the refund until a person decides. Resolutions are recorded and auditable. Our decision on a disputed Tag is final as between the parties on this platform.

Requires legal review — whether and how this interacts with external dispute rights.

9. Prohibited activity

• Fabricating proof, or submitting proof of work you did not perform.
• Coordinating between a Corner and a Partner to approve work that was not done.
• Requesting or performing work that is unlawful, unsafe, or requires a licence you do not hold.
• Trespass, entering dwellings, surveilling identifiable people, or impersonating anyone.
• Attempting to bypass spending limits, verification or rate limits.

10. Safety

No Tag is worth your safety. You may abandon any Tag, at any point, for any reason you judge sufficient — including simply feeling unsafe — and doing so will not be held against your reliability where you tell us why. The platform refuses categories of work rather than relying on you to decline them.

11. Intellectual property

We own the platform. You own what you submit, and grant us the licence needed to verify it, deliver it to the Corner who paid for it, and retain it as evidence of a completed transaction.

12. Third-party services

The platform depends on Stripe, Supabase and hosting providers, and may send proof photographs to an AI vision provider for assessment. See Privacy.

13. Availability

Operations may pause Tag creation, claiming or payouts. A pause does not cancel work already underway and does not extinguish money already owed. Current state is on the status page.

14. Liability and indemnity

Requires legal review — limitation of liability, indemnification, warranty disclaimers, governing law and venue. These are the sections where a generic template is actively dangerous, and we would rather show this gap than fill it with boilerplate we have not had reviewed.

15. Termination

Either side may stop. We may suspend an account for the prohibited activity above. Money already owed for verified work remains owed through a suspension.

16. Changes

We will post changes here. Material changes affecting money or safety will be notified to affected accounts rather than quietly published.

17. Contact

Questions, disputes or anything above: the contact form.