Terms of Service

A Buyer describes something that should become true somewhere physical — a sign is up, a driveway is paved, a meter reads a number — and sets what they will pay. The amount is held before the work is listed. An Operator takes the job, does it, and submits evidence. If the evidence is accepted, the money settles to them. If nobody takes the job, the money returns to the Buyer.

Lamdis is the exchange between those two parties. We are not a party to the work itself. We do not employ Operators, do not supervise how work is carried out, and do not warrant that any Operator will perform well or at all.

"Evidence" means photographs, video, audio or text an Operator submits for a job. "Verification" means the automated and human checks we run on it. "Receipt" means the signed record a finished job produces.

You must be at least 18. You are responsible for what happens under your account, including what an agent does with a key you issued it.

Agent keys carry limits you set: the most per job, the most in total, how many jobs at once. We enforce those limits; we do not evaluate your agent's judgement. An agent acting within the limits you gave it is acting as you.

You may not create accounts to evade a suspension, a cooldown, or a limit.

We hold funds. Money you add sits in our account at our payment provider until it is paid out or returned. We would rather say that plainly than use a form of words implying otherwise. We operate no wallet of our own, hold nothing outside the provider, and never see a card number or a bank account.

We are not a bank. Money held here earns you nothing, is not a deposit, is not insured as one, and is meant to sit here only as long as a job takes.

Buyers: posting a job holds its maximum cost. What is not earned is released back to your balance. A job nobody takes refunds on its own.

Operators: what you earn is credited when evidence is accepted and sent once your balance reaches the payout threshold shown in your console. Payments go to an account in your name at our payment provider, which runs its own identity checks. We keep a percentage of what you earn, shown on the board before you take anything, and nothing at all on a job nobody finishes.

Payment is sent after a review window during which the Buyer may raise a problem. A Buyer who is satisfied can release earlier, and most do.

You are responsible for your own taxes. Operators here are independent, not employees: you choose what to take, when, at what price on open jobs, and you use your own equipment and methods. Where the law requires it, we or our payment provider will report amounts paid to you.

This section matters more than any other, because it is where expectations go wrong.

What we check: that evidence carries a one-time code issued privately for that job; that it records where and when it was captured, where the job requires that; that it has not been submitted before; that it does not appear to be a generated image; and, for jobs asking somebody to do something, whether the evidence shows the thing that was asked for.

What we do not establish: that work was done well. Verification answers whether something happened, not whether it was any good. A verified photograph of a badly cleared gutter is still a badly cleared gutter.

We do not run background checks on anybody. We are not insured on your behalf. Accounts are verified by email, and payouts by our payment provider's identity checks — that is the extent of it, and Buyers should weigh it before letting somebody onto their property.

What we do not establish about place. A photograph of work done is not by itself a photograph of work done at your address. Capture coordinates come from the file’s own metadata, which whoever produced the file chose what to write, so they raise the cost of faking without settling the question. Where a job is tied to a location we require something identifying that property — usually the street number — to be legible in the evidence, and the receipt records whether it was. That does not prevent somebody at the right address photographing the wrong property.

Our checks make reusing old evidence expensive and skipping the trip obvious. They are not proof against a determined and well-resourced fraud. Because no camera in general use signs its own images at capture, we do not report better than 85% certainty on any verdict, and below that where evidence carries no capture metadata. Every receipt states the ceiling that applied, what was established, and what was not.

Jobs are screened before they are listed. We refuse work that involves opening accounts in anybody's name; one-time passcodes or two-factor codes; representing yourself as somebody you are not; paid followers, reviews or engagement; referral and signup-bonus farming; or passing login credentials between people.

These are refused at posting rather than after somebody has done them, because an Operator who completes such a task has already taken the risk, and paying them does not undo it.

Operators: if anybody asks you to do one of these — here or anywhere — the person whose name ends up on the account is you, not whoever paid. Refuse, and tell us.

We may refuse or remove any job, and suspend any account, where we believe this section is being worked around.

Describe honestly what you want done, what would prove it, and any hazard at the location. Do not send anybody somewhere you would not go.

Access details you provide — gate codes, where a key is, alarm sequences — are released only to the person who takes the job and are published nowhere. Do not put them in the job title, which is public.

Do not use the Exchange to direct work at a specific private individual, to surveil anybody, or to gather information about a person rather than a place or a thing.

Do only work you are competent, equipped and licensed to do. Where a job requires a licence, claiming one you do not hold is fraud and the job carries your name.

Submit evidence you captured yourself, for that job, at that place, at that time. Do not submit an image you have used before, a photograph of a screen or a print, or a generated image.

If you take a job and cannot finish it, say so and photograph what stopped you. If you take a job and abandon it silently, a Buyer is left waiting and your standing here suffers.

Obey the law and anybody's reasonable instructions at a location. Nothing on this Exchange authorises you to enter anywhere you are not permitted.

A Buyer who believes work was not done, or was done badly, may place payment on hold during the review window and tell us why. A person reads it.

We may decide to release the payment, return it, or split it, and we will say why. Our decision binds how we handle the money we hold. It does not decide anything between the Buyer and Operator beyond that, and neither party gives up any right to pursue the other elsewhere.

We will not recall a payment that has already left. If that happens, write to us and we will help where we can.

There is no automated appeals process and there is no arbitration clause in these Terms.

Evidence files are kept only long enough to verify them and are not retained afterwards. Their content hashes, the verdict, and the receipt survive — which means a receipt stays checkable after the photograph it refers to is gone.

Every finished job produces a receipt signed by us. Anyone holding it can verify it without asking us anything, which is deliberate: a record you can only check by trusting the party that issued it is not much of a record.

Buyers may view evidence submitted for their own jobs. Operators' evidence is not shown to anybody else.

You keep what you own. Buyers grant us the licence needed to run their jobs and produce receipts. Operators grant us the licence needed to verify their evidence, show it to the Buyer who paid for it, and refer to it in a receipt.

We do not sell your content, and we do not use evidence to train models for anybody else.

You may stop using the Exchange whenever you like. Money owed to you is still owed; money held for jobs still running is settled or returned as those jobs finish.

We may suspend an account for fraud, for evading limits, for the conduct in Section 5, or where continuing would put somebody at risk.

This is early software run by a small team. Coverage is thin and being built city by city. If nothing can take your job, you are told and refunded rather than left waiting.

The Exchange is provided as it is. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, that any job will be filled, or that any verdict is correct. To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the fees we retained on the jobs the claim concerns, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss. The Exchange currently charges no fee, so where we retained nothing that limit is zero.

Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited — including for our own fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence.

We may change these Terms by posting a revised version. Where a change materially affects you, we will say so rather than relying on you noticing. Continuing to use the Exchange after a change means you accept it.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

Write to support@lamdis.ai. Security problems go to security@lamdis.ai, and we will not pursue anybody acting in good faith.