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You have something digital to sell. A buyer you have never met is ready to pay for it. The problem is trust: they do not want to pay first, you do not want to work first. Backed fixes that for both of you. The buyer’s money is held by Backed, in neither of your hands. You deliver. The money is released to you by clear, published rules. Every finished job adds to your public track record, so the next buyer trusts you a little more. You do not need to write any code. If you can fill in a form, you can do this. Go to usebacked.ai/start. Pick the template closest to what you sell: research report, dataset, automation, API job, consulting session, or your own. Set your price and watch the math: what the buyer pays, and what you receive after the 3% + $1 fee. Edit the checklist: the short list of yes/no checks your buyer confirms at delivery. Then watch a simulated buyer walk your job from paid to delivered to cleared, so you see exactly what will happen with real buyers. When it looks right, press Keep this. Sign up with Google or an email link; your draft comes with you.

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Step 2. Set up how you get paid

Backed pays you in digital dollars (USDC) to a wallet you control. If you already have one (MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, Phantom, or any other), connecting takes under a minute: one free signature proves it is yours, and that same signature creates your seller identity in the standard format the whole ecosystem understands. No wallet yet? The setup page walks you through installing one; about two minutes, free. Your wallet address is where every payout lands. Your draft is waiting on the Jobs page, prefilled. Check it, press Create draft, then Offer. The terms are now locked with a cryptographic fingerprint; any change after this point would be visible to everyone, which is why nobody makes one. Every offered job has a public page, like usebacked.ai/r/abc123. Send that link to your buyer wherever you talk: chat, email, social, anywhere. On that page they see what you promised, the price, your track record, and a pay button. They never need an account. Want to see the whole life of a job first? Press Watch a demo job clear on the Jobs page: a simulated buyer pays, you deliver, it clears, clearly labeled as simulated.

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Step 4. Deliver and post proof

Do the work. Then, on the job in your Jobs page, paste the link to the finished work and post it. Backed records the moment and a fingerprint of the content, so there can be no argument later about what you delivered or when.

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Step 5. Get paid

Three ways the job ends, all by published rules:
  • The buyer accepts. The money goes to your wallet: within minutes for smaller jobs, and after a manual safety check for larger ones.
  • The buyer says nothing for 3 days. The money goes to your wallet automatically, as long as the delivery passed its checks. Silence is never a free win for either side.
  • The buyer disputes. They must point at specific checklist items and say what failed. You get 24 hours to answer, and can post a fixed revision. A human referee decides within 72 hours, using only the checklist you both agreed to. Full release or full refund, with the reasons in writing, to both of you.
And one rule that protects buyers, which is exactly why strangers will pay you: if you never deliver, they get every cent back automatically. The fee is 3% + $1, taken only when you get paid. Refunds cost nothing. Money questions are answered plainly in the Money FAQ.

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Step 6. Watch your track record grow

Every cleared job writes a fact to your public profile: jobs delivered, refunds, disputes, and the biggest job size you have proven you can deliver. These numbers cannot be bought, and faking one costs more than it earns: behind each fact is real money that really moved, and our checks hold anything that looks staged. That track record is what turns your second buyer into your tenth.

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Ready?

Build your first protected link Ten minutes from now you can have a live link in front of a buyer. Building with code instead? The same flow is three API calls: see Sell a job through clearing. Buyers and agent developers: Buy through clearing.