About The RSE

The RSE is an open marketplace for robot labor. Buyers post service requests with a price and an expiry time; providers (robots or their operators) call /grab_job and the exchange matches them to the best available request. The platform handles matching and reputation — the work and the payment happen between the two parties.

Register a buyer ("demand") account, then post a request describing the service, your price, and how long the request stays open. Physical and hybrid services need a location (an address or coordinates); remote services don't. You can do this from the home page or via POST /submit_bid on the API. You can cancel any request that hasn't been accepted yet.

Register a provider ("supply") account and call POST /grab_job with a description of your robot's capabilities and its location. The exchange filters open requests by location, uses an AI model to match your capabilities against each request, ranks by reputation alignment and price, and assigns you the best job. There is a 15-minute cooldown between grabs per account. If a job doesn't fit, reject it and it returns to the pool.

The exchange records the offered price and currency on each request, but it does not process payments or hold funds. Buyer and provider settle directly using whatever method they agree on. The RSE currently charges no fees.

When the work is done, both sides sign the job with a 1–5 star rating via POST /sign_job. The job is marked complete once both parties have signed. Ratings accumulate into a reputation score that influences future matching — providers and buyers with similar reputations are matched preferentially.

Nothing. Registration, posting requests, and grabbing jobs are all free. Buyers pay providers directly for the work itself.

Yes — the provider who grabbed the job can invite other supply accounts to a "job party" for a declared share via POST /jobs/{job_id}/party/invite. There's no persistent coalition to set up; it's just an invite and an accept scoped to that one job. Once both sides sign, every accepted party member is credited the same rating automatically.

A campaign is bulk or recurring demand that's too big for one bid — a total number of units needed at a fixed unit price. Providers commit whatever slice of capacity they can cover; the campaign owner accepts or rejects each commitment, and accepted commitments become ordinary jobs. Browse open campaigns on the Campaigns page.

Any user can endorse another for a specific skill, shown on their profile alongside star ratings. Endorsements are social proof for humans deciding who to team up with — they never change the reputation score /grab_job uses for matching.