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Design-partner pilot

One outcome. Counted by someone neither side employs.

The vendor defines, measures and reports its own billable outcomes today, and the buyer is asked to take that on faith. A pilot replaces the faith with a statement both sides can check.

Private alphaSigned terms, canonical hashing and the tamper-evident event log are live and checkable today. Automated verification, disputes, party records and payment adapters are in development. No commitment has settled yet.
What a partner brings
One definitionA single outcome both sides sign — a resolution, a qualified lead, a meeting held — written against a published standard.
Read-only accessThe buyer authorizes read-only access to the system of record the outcome is measured from. Evidence stays in that system; Recourse keeps minimal signed snapshots.
A review windowBoth sides get the statement and the evidence bundle before anything is invoiced, with a fixed window to contest a number.
About an hour a monthSetup, then a monthly review. No engineering integration on the buyer side.
What a partner gets
A monthly statementClaimed, verified, rejected and disputed units, each with the reason it landed where it did.
A signed evidence bundleContent-addressed, hash-chained, and checkable without asking us anything. Both parties get the same bytes.
An exception procedureA narrow, written process for measurement disputes, decided against the definition both sides signed.
No change to how you payThe vendor invoices through the buyer's existing AP process. Recourse is not in the flow of funds and holds no money.
Who this is for

A vendor billing for outcomes, and the buyer paying the invoice.

The pilot works best where the count is already money: an AI support vendor billing per resolution, an outbound vendor billing per qualified meeting. Both sides need the same number, and neither currently has a reason to accept the other’s.

We take one relationship, not a platform rollout. If a privacy review blocks support transcripts, the meeting-held standard is fully deterministic and needs no conversation content at all — that is usually the faster first pilot.

Tell us what you needRead the standards first

Recourse is pre-launch and selecting a small number of design partners. A pilot is a written agreement between three parties and is not self-serve.