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Vouch eliminates payment disputes between employers and freelancers. Funds are locked in escrow, milestones are verified by AI, and reputation is tracked automatically.
Employer posts a project
Describe your project in plain English. Set a budget and deadline. The AI reads your brief and automatically breaks it into verifiable milestones with individual payouts.
Freelancer applies from the Marketplace
Open projects are listed on the Marketplace. Freelancers browse, view full details and milestones, then apply. The employer reviews applicants by their PFI score and assigns the project.
Work proceeds milestone by milestone
The freelancer completes each milestone and submits a proof-of-work link. The AI QA Agent reviews the submission and scores it. On approval, the milestone payout is released automatically.
Project settles with a success bonus
When all milestones are approved with no disputes, the freelancer earns a 5% success bonus on top of the total budget — paid from the platform fee held in escrow.
Instead of one large payment at the end, every project is split into milestones — discrete, verifiable deliverables with individual payout amounts and due dates.
Generated by AI
Verified by AI
Paid automatically
Dispute protection
When an employer posts a project, the total budget + platform fee is charged immediately and held in escrow via Stripe. Funds are released incrementally as milestones are approved — the employer never has to manually pay, and the freelancer never has to chase payments.
PFI is Vouch's AI-computed reputation score for freelancers. It ranges from 0 to 1000 and is recalculated automatically after every milestone. Employers see your PFI score when reviewing applications — it's your on-platform track record.
Formula
PFI = (QA × 0.4 + Deadline × 0.3 + Completion × 0.2 + Dispute-free × 0.1) × 1000QA Score
40% weight
Average score (0–100) given by the AI QA Agent across all approved submissions. High-quality, checklist-compliant work scores higher.
On-time Delivery
30% weight
Percentage of milestones submitted before or on the due date. Consistently hitting deadlines is the second biggest factor.
Completion Rate
20% weight
Percentage of accepted milestones out of total evaluated. Abandoned or perpetually-failing milestones hurt this metric.
Dispute-free Rate
10% weight
Percentage of milestones that were not disputed by the employer. Even one dispute has a lasting impact on your score.
EXCELLENT
900–1000
GOOD
750–899
FAIR
600–749
BUILDING
0–599
New freelancers start with a default PFI of 500 until their first milestone is evaluated.
Freelancer pays
Free to apply, free to work
Platform fee (employer)
Charged at project creation
Vouch keeps
Non-refundable platform cut
Success bonus (freelancer)
Paid from platform fee on full delivery
Example: $1,000 project → employer pays $1,100. Freelancer earns $1,000 in milestone payouts + $50 success bonus = $1,050 on perfect delivery. Vouch keeps $50.
Vouch runs a fleet of specialized AI agents that automate the entire project lifecycle — no human moderator needed.
Orchestrator
Coordinates the full lifecycle. Triggers agents at the right time, handles project state transitions, and initiates settlement.
Requirement Agent
Reads the project brief and generates structured milestones — titles, descriptions, payout amounts, due dates, and acceptance checklists.
QA Agent
Evaluates freelancer submissions against the milestone checklist. Returns a verdict (FULL / PARTIAL / FAIL) and a score 0–100, with detailed reasoning.
PFI Agent
Recalculates the freelancer's Professional Fidelity Index after each milestone evaluation, pulling from the full submission history.
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