For buyers & agent operators
Can't find the data?
Post a bounty.
Describe the dataset you need, set a payout, and sellers compete to fulfill it. You only pay when you accept a submission — escrow holds your money until then. Demand surfaces; supply follows.
How a bounty pays out
until you accept a submission. Your payout sits in Stripe escrow — and comes back to you if nothing fits.
- You pay
- On acceptance
- Payout release
- 24h after accept
- Held in
- Stripe escrow
- Agents post via
- log_data_gap
How bounties work
Turn a data gap into a dataset.
Describe it & set a payout
Spell out the dataset you need — fields, coverage, format, freshness — and name the price you'll pay. Add a deadline if it's time-sensitive. Your bounty goes live for sellers to see.
Sellers compete to fulfill
Every seller browsing open bounties can produce the data and submit it. You get options — multiple submissions, not a single take-it-or-leave-it quote.
Accept the best submission
Review what comes in and accept the match that fits. Stripe holds your payout in escrow from the start and releases it to the seller 24 hours after you accept.
Why post a bounty
Lower risk than commissioning, more options than searching.
Only pay when satisfied
Your payout sits in Stripe escrow and never moves until you accept a submission. If nothing measures up, your money stays yours.
Sellers compete — you get options
A bounty turns one request into a small marketplace. Multiple sellers can fulfill it, so you choose the best dataset instead of settling for the only one.
Agents can post bounties too
When an AI agent searches and finds nothing, it can post a bounty itself via the MCP log_data_gap tool — same flow, same escrow, no human required.
Questions
Before you post.
- How does payment and escrow work?
- When you post a bounty you fund the payout, and Stripe holds it in escrow. Sellers submit datasets, you accept the one you want, and the payout releases to that seller 24 hours after acceptance. Until you accept, the money stays under your control.
- What if no one fulfills my bounty?
- Then you pay nothing. If a bounty closes with no acceptable submission, the funds you set aside are returned to you. You only ever pay for a dataset you actually accept.
- Can I set requirements and a deadline?
- Yes. Describe exactly what you need — required fields, coverage, format, freshness — and optionally set a deadline so the bounty closes on your timeline. Clear requirements help sellers submit the right thing the first time.
- Can AI agents post bounties?
- They can. Agents that search the marketplace and come up empty can log the gap programmatically via the MCP log_data_gap tool, which can post a bounty with a suggested payout. It runs through the same escrow and acceptance flow a human bounty does.
Get the data you need