Operating model
Negotiation, travel deals, and shared-cost flows.
These workflows should stay structured. The system captures facts, shows evidence, preserves user consent, and creates clear state transitions instead of free-form chaos.
Getting help
- Describe the errand in your own words. Errand auto-detects the category (handyman, minor plumbing, and so on) so you never have to pick from a list.
- A deterministic safety gate runs first, before any AI call. Gas lines, electrical panels, structural work, roof work, and licensed-only jobs are routed straight to verified providers -- never a DIY guide.
- For safe tasks, an AI-generated guided fix walks you through it step by step.
- Still stuck? One tap posts the job to your nearby neighbors first -- ranked by distance and trust tier, not locked to people who happened to tag themselves with the exact category. If nobody responds, the search radius widens automatically.
- Providers send structured offers: price, duration, and schedule. Accept, decline, or counter.
- Once scheduled, track the job through to completion, then both sides leave a blind rating that becomes visible together.
Deal negotiation
- Customer posts a scoped request with photos, location range, urgency, and budget preference.
- Errand safety gate blocks risky DIY and creates a provider-ready job brief.
- Providers submit structured offers: price, scope, materials, duration, availability, warranty, exclusions.
- Customer can accept, decline, or counter. Each counter creates an auditable offer version.
- Once accepted, exact address and scheduling unlock. Payment hold can be created if payments are enabled.
- After completion, both sides rate blindly, then reviews become visible.
Travel deals
- User enters budget, origin, destination flexibility, travel dates, people, days, preferences, and constraints.
- Errand compares packages or provider-supplied options by total cost, convenience, refundability, safety, and fit.
- AI summarizes trade-offs but does not invent prices. Each deal should carry source/provider evidence.
- User can save a deal, ask for a cheaper option, request human travel-provider follow-up, or convert it into a booking workflow.
- Admin can enable countries, currencies, travel providers, and deal sources separately.
Share the cost
- User posts a platonic cost-sharing plan: destination, dates, split items, approximate budget, and boundaries.
- Errand matches compatible users by destination, dates, budget, verification status, and safety preferences.
- Private details stay hidden until both users opt in. No dating, paid companionship, or adult-service positioning.
- Users can propose shared room, car, local tour, or group package splits, with clear per-person estimated cost.
- Report/block controls and identity verification become mandatory before deeper coordination.