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Vouch Desk

Recruiters pay a small USDC fee to request verified proofs from candidates, who get paid.

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$219one time, base tier
Built on order. Reserve it today for a $55 refundable deposit, pay the balance when it is delivered. Promised delivery within 48 hours of payment.
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Locked in a smart contract until delivery

Your USDC is locked in a smart contract, not sent to us. We can only collect it by delivering before 27 Oct 2026. If we miss it, you take it back yourself from My apps, no permission needed. We can also refund you any time. View the contract on BaseScan.

Promised delivery: 27 Oct 2026 (counted from payment).

WHAT YOU GET
  • The complete user app · see the demo
  • Basic customization · name, tagline, logo, colour, chain, domain and a short notes field
  • Deployed on your wallet · you own the contracts and the repo
  • Owner playbook · your first moves after launch
Base price, all of the above$219
OPTIONAL ADD-ONS, AFTER DELIVERY
  • Owner consoleQuoted after delivery
  • Referral and growth top-upQuoted after delivery
  • Roadmap v2: Proof issuersAdd-on from $650
  • Roadmap v3: Talent networkAdd-on from $1,500

Add-ons are not part of this payment. Once your app is delivered you can request them from My apps, and you only pay if you say yes to the quote.

HOW PAYING WORKS
  1. 1. Pay a depositIt locks in the escrow contract, not our wallet.
  2. 2. We build and deployOn your wallet, with your name and logo, by the promised date.
  3. 3. Delivered, or refundedDelivered: funds release to us. Late: you claim them back.
Want it fully custom? From $1,600 · talk to usNew to building? See why it is so doable now.Why build
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A question about Vouch Desk? Pricing, chains, custom work, anything. We reply by email or Telegram.

PortsBase · Arc
KindIdentity
OwnerYou, on your wallet and git
Picture this

Who it is for

A startup wants proof of Solidity skill. They pay 5 USDC per verified request, the candidate approves and earns it, and spam recruiters disappear.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$219
$55 deposit to reserve

Request inbox, USDC escrow, consent release, proof delivery.

  • You choose: chain
  • You choose: name and logo
  • You choose: accent color
  • You choose: fee amount
Customfrom $1,600
Built around you

Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.

  • Everything in Base
  • Custom features and design
  • Priority build
Why it is new

What exists today, and what this does differently

What is new

No product found that pays candidates in USDC when recruiters request their verified proofs.

Closest things out there

Gen Digital/Accenture and a patented smart-contract consent flow let recruiters request verified credentials with consent, but none pay the candidate per request.

Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.

What it unlocks

The human in it

Your verified record earns for you.
The Regatta Board

Races it can enter

hackathon · Circle · upcoming
Arc / Circle developer programs and hackathons
unknown
Official page ↗

USDC payments; eligibility unknown.

Their rule on existing code: unknown
grant · Circle · rolling
Circle Developer Grants
unknown
Official page ↗

Eligibility unknown.

Their rule on existing code: unknown
What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

The complete Vouch Desk app: candidates set a fee for their attention, recruiters pay it into escrow to request verified proofs, and nothing is released without the candidate's tap, with plans and checkout built in.

Base price · $219

The user app, complete

Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.

Three step onboardingHome
Shown once: set a fee for your attention, nothing leaves without your tap, you get paid.
Desk status and spam drawingHome
Waiting requests, fee, earnings, proofs and the before and after mail cubbies.
Fee settingDesk
Fee per request with a coin stack and guidance on spam levels.
Proof listDesk
Audit, mainnet deploy, commits and reference; salary history is locked out by design.
Desk page previewDesk
What a recruiter sees, with the refund window.
Request inboxRequests
A real startup, a mass recruiter and an overreaching fund, each with escrowed fees and flags.
Approve, partial release or declineRequests
Release by encrypted link, partial release on overreach, or decline with refund.
Earnings and Friday ledgerEarnings
Earnings after the platform cut and a ledger of every release and refund.
Earnings share card and plansEarnings
Shareable card and pricing from the owner paywall.
Verified company badgeHiring
Recruiter teams verify their domain. Gated behind Hiring team.
Saved searches and reply priorityHiring
Search opted in candidates; requests sorted first. Gated behind Hiring team.
Open the full app demo
Add-on

Owner console

Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.

Revenue and paywall editorRevenue
Platform cut, hiring team plans, USDC payments, payment methods, live cut, price and gates.
RulesRules
Refund window, fee cap, escrow network, sponsored gas.
Desk agent log and roadmapAgent
What failed and the fix, running costs, and priced v2 and v3 builds.
Top-up

Growth and referrals

Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.

Growth loopsGrowth
Developer meetups, recruiters landing on desks, earnings cards and verified teams.
The money path, built in

How it earns for you

Candidates never pay. Recruiters pay the candidate's fee into escrow and the owner keeps a small cut of each released fee; hiring teams pay monthly for a verified badge and searches.

Candidate freeFreeRequest inbox, escrow, up to 5 proofs, Friday ledger
Platform cut10% of each released feeThe owner keeps a share of every approved request; refunds cost nothing
Hiring team$49 a monthVerified company badge, saved searches of candidates who opted in, faster reply priority, bulk refunds tracking

Platform cut set by the owner (default 10 percent). Escrow gas is well under a cent and sponsored.

Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

  • Every recruiter lands on a candidate desk page and funds a wallet; many of their hires open desks
  • Candidates share earnings cards that pull in peers
  • Verified teams get better reply rates, pushing other teams to verify
  • Developer communities open desks together
Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included
The full candidate desk
  • Escrow with deposit, release and refund on expiry
  • Candidate desk page with fee and proofs
  • Recruiter request flow with card onramp
  • Release by encrypted link and attestation
  • Plans and checkout
Included
v2
Proof issuers
  • Former employers sign references in app
  • Bootcamps issue course proofs
  • Code host export connectors
  • Issuer reputation
Add-on from $650
v3
Talent network
  • Opt in talent search for teams
  • Team ATS integrations
  • Referral splits
  • Multi chain escrow
Add-on from $1,500

The pitch, ready for investors and grant reviewers

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

Your 2 minute demo script

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

Make it entirely yours

Custom work from $1,600: your proof types and issuers, ATS integrations, a community branded desk network, or other escrow chains. Scoped on a call.

Custom from $1,600
BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The recipe (how it is built, the data, costs, risks, build order, the pitch and the demo script) is unlocked when your app is paid in full.

The need

Developers and specialists get dozens of recruiter messages a week, most of them bulk and unread, while the few serious hirers get buried. Recruiters, in turn, cannot easily verify claims on a CV. Both sides waste hours, and the candidate is never paid for the attention and the proof they hand over.

What exists and what is new

Closest existing: Gen Digital and Accenture have piloted digital credentials that recruiters can request with the candidate's consent, and a published patent describes a smart contract consent flow for releasing verified credentials. Paid inbox products exist for general messages. What we did not find is a flow where a recruiter's fee is escrowed per proof request and released to the candidate when they approve. The novelty is the payment per consented proof, not verified credentials themselves.

The data it runs on

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

1.The mission

Make your verified work earn for you. Anyone who wants proof of what you can do pays a small fee to ask, you decide what they see, and spam stops being free.

2.Why people can't resist it

Getting paid to read DMs The first 5 USDC from a recruiter feels like a small revenge on years of spam, and people tell friends about it.

The quiet inbox Going from forty blasts a week to two is an immediate, visible relief, and the weekly ledger shows it.

Proof gaps Seeing what hirers ask for and what you have not proved yet gives a clear next step, and a reason to come back.

3.How it works for real

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

4.Pricing

Cost per use: unlocked when your app is paid in full.

Candidate free Free
Request inbox, escrow, up to 5 proofs, Friday ledger.
Platform cut 10% of each released fee
The owner keeps a share of every approved request, refunds cost nothing.
Hiring team $49 per month
Verified company badge, saved searches of candidates who opted in, faster reply priority, bulk refunds tracking.

5.Growth loop

Every recruiter who wants a proof must land on the candidate's desk page, see how it works and fund a wallet; many of them hire people who then open their own desk. Candidates share their earnings card, which pulls in peers. Teams that verify their domain get better reply rates, which pushes other teams to verify.

6.Risks and guardrails

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

7.Build order

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

8.Where this is going

  1. Now
    A paid request inbox for developers, so serious hirers reach them and spam pays or leaves.
  2. Next
    References pay the referee too, so the people who vouch for you share in what your record earns.
  3. Later
    Any professional, from nurses to translators, keeps a verified record that hirers pay to check, across borders.
  4. The world
    Your attention and your proven work stop being free inputs to other people's pipelines. Reputation becomes something you own and are paid for.

Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.

OWNER PLAYBOOK

Own it, then chart your voyage

NRevenueVentureBuilder statusHackathonsProductivityInspire othersPartnershipsPortfolioAgencyVOUCH DESK

Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.

Why own Vouch Desk

Vouch Desk makes recruiters pay a small USDC fee to request verified proofs from candidates, and the candidate keeps the fee. Running your own desk means the hiring community that trusts it, the fee on every request and the record of fair hiring all carry your name. You become the place where serious recruiters go because spam recruiters will not pay.

What’s stopping you?

“I can't code.”

You don't need to. The app ships deployed to your wallet with a setup guide. Your real work is getting the first five recruiters and candidates to try one request.

“Will recruiters really pay to ask?”

Some will not, and that is the filter. Start with small startups that already waste hours on fake CVs; 5 USDC is less than ten minutes of their time.

“Is it legal to pay candidates?”

Paying someone for their time to prepare a proof is ordinary, but employment and tax rules differ by country. Keep fees small, show them clearly, and do not use it to screen on protected traits.

“Is it really mine?”

Yes. The contracts deploy from your wallet, and the brand, domain and customer list are yours. DEPLOYR takes no cut of what you charge after purchase.

“What if it breaks?”

Records live onchain on contracts deployed from your wallet, so a page outage does not erase anything. Setup issues are covered by the get-it-shipped promise.

The million-dollar ladder

You take a visible fee on each paid proof request and sell monthly plans to recruiters and bootcamps for request bundles and a branded desk. Reaching $1M a year is a target to plan toward, not a promise. Volume depends on landing recruiters, not candidates.

$20
$6,000
$40,000
$85,000
First requests
10 requests
$2 fee
Builder scene
150 recruiters
$40/mo
Startup hiring tool
500 recruiters
$80/mo
Hiring standard
425 firms
$200/mo
  • Candidates who share their paid proofs as portfolio links
  • Bootcamp plans that give every graduate a desk
  • Request bundles for recruiters hiring every month
  • A public count of spam requests that never happened

Illustrative stages, not a forecast. Results depend on you and the market; nothing here is guaranteed.

Pick your destination

Grow it to a million-dollar app
Vouch Desk earns when startups, recruiters and bootcamps use it, so the fastest money comes from one real proof request that people can see working.ARRIVE: 10 paid proof requests completed and your first paying customer within 30 days.5 moves · first one within the hour →
Raise for it
Vouch Desk solves a real coordination problem on Base or Arc, which is exactly what ecosystem grant programs and accelerators say they want to fund.ARRIVE: Two funding applications submitted with real usage numbers attached, within six weeks.5 moves · first one within the hour →
Become a real builder on a chain
Running Vouch Desk from your own wallet builds a real onchain history on Base that other builders and programs can see.ARRIVE: A verified contract, a public builder profile, and a weekly shipping log for 8 weeks.5 moves · first one within the hour →
Win with it at hackathons
Vouch Desk is a working product, which gives you a strong base for hackathon tracks on Base or Arc if the event allows existing code.ARRIVE: One hackathon entry submitted with a new feature built during the event.5 moves · first one within the hour →
Run your own work on it
Most of the work around Vouch Desk is repeat admin, so a simple weekly routine saves hours.ARRIVE: A weekly routine under one hour and a saved message library.4 moves · first one within the hour →
Get your people moving
Vouch Desk has a human story at its heart, so sharing real moments pulls people in better than features.ARRIVE: Four story posts published and at least one new user who came from them.4 moves · first one within the hour →
Partner with founders and projects
Vouch Desk grows faster through groups that already gather candidates and recruiters than through one by one outreach.ARRIVE: One signed partnership with a group that brings at least 20 users.4 moves · first one within the hour →
Prove your skills with it
Owning and running Vouch Desk is proof you can ship and grow a real onchain product, which matters for jobs, clients and grants.ARRIVE: A portfolio page with live links, numbers and one testimonial.4 moves · first one within the hour →
Sell it as a service
Many startups, recruiters and bootcamps want what Vouch Desk does but will not set it up themselves, so you can charge for done for you setup.ARRIVE: Three paid setup clients within 60 days.4 moves · first one within the hour →
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