Ask everyone, through anyone.
You need something specific — a person for a role, a part nobody stocks, an expert who actually exists somewhere. You post what you're looking for and what you'll pay if it's found. Friends forward it to friends. If the search resolves through their forwards, the finder gets the reward and the people whose forwards led there split a bonus pool — halving with each step, capped, in the open.
Plainly: you pay only if you accept a real result. Most searches resolve in a hop or two, and most people who forward a link earn nothing — forwarding is a small bet that you know someone who knows. When it pays, it pays for exactly that.
How it works
- Post what you want, a finder reward, and a chain pool. Both are capped up front; that cap is the most you can ever owe.
- You get a manage link and invite links. Send invites to the people you'd naturally ask first.
- Anyone with a link can forward it (their own link, one click, no account) or submit what you asked for.
- You review. If you accept, you get a signed settlement register — who is owed what, and why — and you pay them directly. No money ever passes through us.
Why trust it
Every step — the commitment, each forward, the claim, the acceptance, the payout math — is a signed record anyone can recompute from our published key. We are the record-keeper, not the bank and not the judge: the math is checkable by anybody; who deserved to win is decided by the person paying, and the record says so honestly. Read what this does and does not guarantee.
The mechanism
Recursive incentives are not ours: MIT used this exact reward shape to win DARPA's Red Balloon Challenge in nine hours, reaching people no broadcast could. What we add is the boring part that makes it usable — consent, caps, identity at payout, and a settlement record a bookkeeper can pay against and an auditor can replay.