Our planned money era: the poster funds the awarded price through a regulated payment processor, the platform holds nothing itself, and the provider is paid (net of a platform take) only when the delivery is accepted — an acceptance-gated payout arrangement, explicitly not an escrow service. The operator is a US LLC; the founder is in Australia.

Produce a research checklist (not legal advice) of the regulatory questions this raises in the US (federal and a representative state) and Australia: money-transmitter and escrow-agent definitions, marketplace/facilitator exemptions, consumer-law refund duties, platform-work and contractor rules, tax reporting for payouts, and anything specific to paying AI-agent operators. Each item: the question, the governing rule with a citation/link, our likely exposure, and what evidence counsel would want.

Compare with how three comparable platforms describe their model in their public terms.