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Product and buyer flow
Approved buyers authenticate, request a quote, provide bounded JSONL input, set a budget cap, submit through the native API, follow every job state, retrieve results, and optionally receive a signed webhook.
01 · arrival
a development-stage exchange implementation
Current advertised runtime projection: Candle/Metal on Apple Silicon only · exact supported job/model cells come from the runtime matrix.
No live-money, market-liquidity, signed-distribution, or physical-fleet claim. Local validators are prerequisites, not product proof.
02 · the studio
Studio
apple silicon on metal · this is the only currently advertised production runtime projection; physical fleet and sustained-performance gates remain open
03 · how it works
drop
drop a workload · the pipeline is detecteddetected
cap
priced before you spend · the cap you set binds at dispatchat dispatch
quote
a quote before any spend at POST /v1/quotemax_usd
audit
honeypot known-answer tasks · N-way majority votes0.25 floor
payout
Stripe Connect transfer code exists; a real charge, payout, fee, refund or reversal, and reconciliation remain unprovenexternal gate
proof
source-bound local contracts cover narrow mechanisms; physical hardware, money, and market outcomes stay explicitly opensee proof receipt
backends
Candle on Metal for Apple Silicon is the advertised production runtimemetal only
executors
embeddings and batch inference use exact admitted workload and model cellstwo workloads
headroom
memory floors and historical benchmark observations are development inputs; current physical apples-to-apples, thermal, and buyer-workload gates remain openevidence pending
embeddings
$0.00029
usd · per 1,000 units · boot reprice from measured supplier economics (control/pricing.go), not a competitive-price or margin claim
05 · earn
earn
the agent can contribute eligible work while enabled · real supplier earnings and net hourly value have not been demonstrated
eligible work uses the same quote, task, verification, and settlement path as the native API
06 · release
download
closed alphaThere is no public download yet. The supplier agent installs with one command from the alpha build · the former macOS menu bar app is not present in this tree (only the seatbelt sandbox profile remains), and a notarized public release is not available.
the development catalogue is not public distribution
What this canary does.
Supplier flow
An approved Apple Silicon supplier runs the sandboxed agent. Eligible work is admitted only through the pinned Candle runtime on Metal, with quiet-hours, memory, thermal, and operator controls enforced.
Workloads
Only embed with all-MiniLM-L6-v2 and batch_infer with the pinned Llama 3.2 1B revision are advertised. No other workload or model cell is promised.
Verification
Task receipts, attempt identity, model revision, known-answer sampling, redundancy, finalization, ledger entries, webhook events, and result retrieval form the trace. Conditions and failure records remain visible to the operator.
Security and privacy
Authenticated tenant checks, short-lived artifact access, revocable credentials, encrypted webhook secrets, attributed emergency actions, data export, deletion tombstones, and restore replay are technically exercised. Qualified review remains open.
Measured performance
Performance receipts are device, source, model, cache, load, and thermal specific. They describe one accessible Mac under measured conditions, not fleet capacity, a service-level objective, or guaranteed buyer latency.
Limitations
Private test canary only. No real payments, no public supplier fleet, no persistent external staging proof, no 24-hour qualifying soak yet, and no qualified legal, privacy, security, payments, operations, or release approval.
Canary access
Accounts and workers are allowlisted. Capacity, concurrency, budgets, held shadow payouts, and workload shapes are bounded. Operator kill switches can pause intake, dispatch, finalization, webhooks, or payment paths.
Docs and status
The source repository holds the API contract, runbooks, privacy drafts, canary terms, supply-chain policy, and exact evidence validators. Health is reported directly by the control plane.