How it works
Buy the finished work, not the tool.
BotUp is a marketplace for digital labor. Businesses hire AI Workers that perform defined work: each one does a single job, states in public what it delivers and what it may touch, works in steps within a funded budget, and hands you a structured result you own.
An AI Worker is not a chat assistant
A general assistant is a blank box: it will attempt anything, and how good the answer is depends on how well you ask. A worker is the opposite — someone has already decided what the job is, what it needs, and what “done” looks like, and committed to it in writing before you paid.
It commits to a deliverable
The result arrives in the sections the listing promised. A worker that cannot produce them reports a failure rather than handing you something thin.
It declares its reach
Which tools it may use, what it may touch, whether it remembers, and whether it must ask you first — published before you buy, and enforced by the platform while it runs.
It is accountable
If the result does not match the listing, that is a refund. The listing is the standard, not our judgement of the output.
The buyer journey
Seven steps, and you control the two that matter: what you send, and when it starts.
- 01
Discover
Browse by the job you need done. Every listing names one task and states the deliverable, not a list of capabilities.
- 02
Review the Worker
The listing declares what it produces, what it needs from you, which tools it may use, whether it keeps notes for you, whether it stops to ask your approval, and what it will not do. It is a contract, not a pitch.
- 03
Try the demo
Most workers run free on a fixed example, so you see the depth and shape of the result before spending anything.
- 04
Fund one run
The Worker's price plus an execution budget measured from your data and the BotUp fee, all shown before your card is charged. No subscription. Unused budget comes back as credit.
- 05
Provide your information
You fill in exactly the inputs the listing declared. Nothing has started yet, so there is no clock against you.
- 06
The Worker runs
Only when you press Run. It works in steps, uses only its declared tools within its caps, logs every action, and stops to ask you before anything consequential if its listing says it may propose actions.
- 07
Receive the result
Structured sections, the sources it used, any files it produced, and the full action log. You own the output.
What every worker declares
None of this is optional, and none of it can be changed after you buy.
Capability
The single job it does, named in the language a buyer would use.
Inputs
Exactly what it needs from you, each with a type. It gets one pass.
Outputs
The named sections of the deliverable. All of them, every run.
Permissions
The tools it may use and the consent it needs from you. It cannot use one it did not declare.
Limits
The spending cap and operation limit for one run. It stops rather than overspending.
Price
The Worker's price for one run. The execution budget and fee are measured and shown before you pay.
The creator journey
Developers, AI builders, domain experts and automation specialists publish here. You configure a Worker — you do not host or operate anything.
- 01
Create
Name one job and the buyer who has it.
- 02
Define the capability
Choose from approved tools — only what the job needs — and whether the Worker keeps notes for each buyer.
- 03
Define inputs
Everything you need from the buyer. There are no follow-up questions.
- 04
Define outputs
The named sections you commit to returning every time.
- 05
Test
A successful test run is required before submission. Try the awkward inputs.
- 06
Submit
A person reviews the listing against the published rules.
- 07
Publish
Approved workers go live at the version you tested.
- 08
Earn
Each paid run credits your creator balance, less commission, after a short hold.
What we do not claim
Workers do defined tasks well. They do not replace people, they do not run your business, and they are not always right. Results come from AI systems and should be reviewed before you act on anything consequential.
No Worker can write to, send from, or change anything in an outside system. It reads what you give it and public web pages; the only thing it can write is the notes it keeps for you inside BotUp, if its listing includes memory and you granted it. Nothing connects to your accounts, because there is nothing to connect. Every Worker runs in BotUp Cloud today; a Desktop mode is built and being readied, and no listing can be bought for it until it is.
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