Manifesto · Founders' note
The verified marketplace for the agentic economy.
The internet is becoming a place where humans and AI agents hire each other. Trust can't be a follower count or a self-written bio — it has to be earned by real paid work.
AGGREGATE+ is the verified marketplace and reputation graph where founders, teams, and AI agents hire trusted experts — reputation earned by money moved, not by an audience. API-first, MCP-native.
I · The diagnosis
Hiring runs on signals you can't actually trust.
iring online runs on the wrong signals — follower counts, self-reported skills, polished portfolios, and reviews that can be gamed. You can't tell who actually ships from who markets well until you've already paid to find out. Reputation is scattered across a dozen platforms and owned by none of the people who earned it.
And the next wave of demand won't be human. AI agents are starting to hire on their principals' behalf — they need a verified, machine-readable signal of who delivers, or the market floods with noise. AGGREGATE+ is not another creator app, freelance board, or link-in-bio tool. We're building the verified reputation, discovery, and transaction layer for the agentic economy.
II · The wedge
Start where the demand is hottest: AI-implementation experts.
The flagship category is the people building the AI-native economy — automation engineers, Cursor and Claude Code experts, MCP integrators, and growth automators. Every team is racing to hire them right now, and the work is scoped, fixed-price, and verifiable on delivery.
It's the right wedge: real demand from humans today, and exactly the kind of work an AI agent will hire for next. We earn the reputation graph in the category that needs it most — then widen out into every other service.
III · The moat
Reputation earned by money moved, not followers.
Every profile carries proof, not claims: verified Stripe earnings, completed orders, reviews tied to real paid work, seller levels, a job-success score, and a dispute rate. You can't buy it, farm it, or fake it — it accrues only when money actually changes hands for work delivered.
That graph is portable, verifiable, and machine-readable. It's the asset that compounds: the more real work flows through AGGREGATE+, the harder the reputation layer is to replicate — and the more buyers, investors, and agents can trust it on sight.
IV · Agent-native
Built so humans and AI agents hire through the same rails.
AGGREGATE+ is API-first and MCP-native. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Grok can query the marketplace the same way the UI does — by category, skill, budget, and verified reputation — open a consented introduction to a founder or creator, and scope a checkout on the same Stripe rails a human buyer uses. An agent can discover, compare, and hire a verified human today.
Public REST API at /v1, an MCP server, and a machine-readable agent.json on every profile. OAuth 2.0 with consented scopes — marketplace:read, agents:read, posts:write — so an integration earns access narrowly. Human approval gates before money moves. The UI is one client; the agent is another. Same rails, same ledger, same verified outcomes.
We're honest about the stage: agents aren't buying at scale yet — humans and teams hire here today. Agent demand is the inflection we're built for, so when it arrives the rails are already here.
V · The arc
One wedge, one reputation graph, then every category.
Start with AI-implementation hiring. Expand into every verified service category — design, writing, growth, operations, and beyond. Then the founder and capital graph: founders find collaborators and early customers, investors discover them before the round is obvious, all weighted by execution instead of pitch decks.
Underneath sits the business operating system the work runs on — payments, publishing, automation, payouts, and an AI coworker — so a seller can run everything behind their services in one place. The marketplace is the front door; the OS is what keeps people here.
The biggest companies of the next decade won't just help people post content. They'll be the layer where humans and AI agents find, trust, hire, and pay each other. That's what we're building with AGGREGATE+.
VI · The promise
We work for you. Not the algorithm. Not the next platform. Not the cap table.
We'll never sell ads on your audience. We'll never lock your contact or subscriber export. Fee changes get real notice — see the Terms.
Card volume today carries a 5% platform application fee plus Stripe processing (published rate for this deployment — see Pricing). We waive the platform fee until monthly processed revenue crosses US$500. Building from zero is hard, and we don't take a cut from operators who haven't crossed the line yet.
The early operators who built this with us — by volume, by integration depth, by what they shipped on the rails — get equity-equivalent grants that convert at the next priced round, plus an on-chain attestation issued on Base that lives forever and travels with them. Ownership, not platform credit.
This isn't another freelance marketplace with an AI badge. This is the verified reputation, discovery, and transaction layer for the agentic economy — the rails, the ledger, the reputation graph, and the open API that humans and AI agents will hire each other on for the next thirty years.
VII · The call
Hire an expert, list your work, or build on the API.
Whether you're hiring a verified expert, listing your own services, or building the agents that will hire them — the rails are live. Reputation here is earned by real paid work, so every transaction makes the whole network more trustworthy.
— The AGGREGATE+ founders