Choose your shape
Find the reference Service that looks like your business, see what each of its jobs leaves you and the plan it runs live on, then build it file by file and take the first real job.
Start at the brand that looks like yours, build it file by file, and open a mechanism page when a line in the file needs one.
| Your work looks like | Shaped like | How it earns |
|---|---|---|
| Work AI finishes alone: a translation, a summary, a listing | lingua | a price per job, charged on delivery |
| Work with legal effect: a patent filing, a contract review, a demand letter | api.lawyer | a flat price per matter, released on the office's receipt |
| Work that runs for years: returns, records, deadlines | apis.tax | a yearly plan with allowances, or per return |
| Work paid on what it wins: a closed deal, a recovery | api.forsale | nothing on effort; a share at the close |
Most brands are one shape with a little of another. A legal brand watches its dockets for years, and a tax brand has a credentialed signer at each return. Start from the shape that sells the first job.
Every figure below is the ledger check prints for that job. Every plan builds and runs every shape in test. The plans listed are the shape's own path, each rung derived by check from the brand's files (which plan your Service needs).
Work AI finishes alone: a translation, a summary, a listing.
- How it earns
- A price per job, charged on delivery
- Runs live on
- Free · four Services AI delivers alone, each at a price per jobLaunch · Translation, signed by a sworn translator from lingua's own Pool
The line that makes it
import { Service } from 'services.dev'
export default Service({
name: 'Translation',
input: { document: 'file', to: 'language: a BCP 47 tag, such as fr-CA' },
output: { document: 'file' },
price: 49,
})No human line, so AI delivers every job, and an adversarial review checks each one before it ships.
What a job leaves you
- A translation$48.16$49.00 on delivery · AI $0.84
- A store listing$28.16$29.00 on delivery · AI $0.84
- A translated summary, buying your Translation$29.16$79.00 on delivery · your Translation $49.00 · AI $0.84
Your first hour
Then 4 pages
AI steps and briefsThe customer portalMoneyYour business
The mechanism, when you need it · 2 pages
Work with legal effect: a patent filing, a contract review, a demand letter.
- How it earns
- A flat price per matter, released on the office’s receipt; an attorney’s fee sold on their own account at the same checkout
- Runs live on
- Free · trademark responses you sign yourself, as an attorney admitted in any stateLaunch · a small practice: you, two staff and five attorneys, or a rented Pool, on every matterTeam · full depth: tiers and ranked offers, three states, the custodian ladder
The line that makes it
roles: { practitioner: { pool: attorneys, pay: 150 } },
// …
deliver: {
// …
sign: { by: 'practitioner', stamp: true,
checklist: ['the claims read on the disclosure', 'every inventor is named', 'a reasonable inquiry was made'] },
file: { submit: 'https://filings.example/patent-office', to: 'USPTO', receipt: 'application_number', wait: '2d', rejected: 'draft' },
},
// …
clocks: {
nonprovisional: {
due: '365d after file', owner: 'of_record', lives_on: 'subject', rungs: ['notice 60d', 'escalate 30d', 'ack daily 7d'],
lapse: ['order the nonprovisional', 'let it lapse, in writing', 'hand to outside counsel'],
},
},
// …
price: { usd: 199, self: 79, release: 'file', within: '5d', lines: { filing_fee: { at: 'cost', from: 'file', fault: 'brand' } } },human: { sign: 'patent-agent', in: 'USPTO', before: 'file' } is the shorthand; check expands it to this role, the rules row and the sign step.
What a job leaves you
- A provisional patent application$42.90$199.00 on file's receipt · practitioner $150.00 · coverage $4.00 · AI $2.10
- A trademark office action response$167.90$349.00 on file's receipt · attorney's fee $175.00, sold by the attorney · coverage $4.00 · AI $2.10
- A contract review$43.74$99.00 on acceptance · attorney's fee $50.00, sold by the attorney · coverage $4.00 · AI $1.26
Your first hour
Then 5 pages
The rules tableThe attorneys' PoolThe moneyWhen the attorney declinesTake your first real matter
The mechanism, when you need it · 16 pages
- Add a signer
- human: the line
- Rules: how a Service meets licensing by design
- Roles
- Your own team
- Where an act happens
- Refusals and cures
- When the client does it themselves
- Credentials the brand holds
- What a person can do
- Declines and direction
- Two sovereigns
- Of record
- Buyer, client, party
- Propose, then the gate commits
- The delivery portal
Work that runs for years: returns, records, deadlines.
- How it earns
- A yearly plan with allowances; a return priced on its date, its state fees at cost; a professional or a self-help price; per year of record
- Runs live on
- Free · returns you prepare and sign yourself, as an enrolled agent or CPA, one tax year per job; transcripts alongsideLaunch · a small practice: you, two staff and five members, or a rented Pool; returns, estimates and the Tax PlanTeam · full depth: a door of its own, standby for the season, the custodian ladder
The line that makes it
on: {
schedule: {
information: { order: informationReturns, each: 'year', at: '5d after end', catch_up: 'open' },
annual: { order: annualReturn, each: 'tax_year', at: '1mo after end', catch_up: 'open' },
estimate: { order: estimate, each: 'quarter', at: '10d before pay', when: sub => sub.input.entity === 'C corp' },
},
event: { 'question.asked': question, 'notice.received': noticeResponse, 'fact.restated': amendedReturn },
},
price: { usd: 2_400, every: 'year', includes: { 'annual-return': 1, 'information-returns': 25, estimate: 4, question: 12, 'notice-response': 2 } },The year orders itself: its 1099s after the calendar year, each return a month after its year ends, an estimate ten days before each quarter is due, and a question or a notice when one comes, inside the allowances.
What a job leaves you
- A Tax Plan, for a year$2,399.16$2,400.00 at the start of each year · AI $0.84
- An annual return, sold alone$1,693.32$1,800.00 when file is accepted · signer $105.00 · 4 jurisdictions · AI $1.68
- A notice response$208.16$299.00 on send's receipt · representative $90.00 · AI $0.84
Your first hour
Then 9 pages
Tax PlanA year, and the nextThe dates to file and payThe rules tableThe preparers' PoolThe moneyWhen a date is missedPorting apis.taxTake your first real return
The mechanism, when you need it · 8 pages
Work paid on what it wins: a closed deal, a recovery.
- How it earns
- Nothing on effort; a share at the close
- Runs live on
- Free · meetings AI books and you hold, $400 a meeting heldLaunch · deals AI works to close, with closers listed on closers.deals, paid 5% of the closed value at wonTeam · full depth: the closer's share at won, tiers by deal size, firms with a bench
The line that makes it
roles: {
setter: { pool: closers, pay: { usd: 250, on: 'meet.held' } },
closer: { pool: closers, span: ['meet', 'propose', 'negotiate', 'close'], revive: { first_call: '24h' },
pay: { share: '10%', of: 'closed_value', on: 'won', from: 'buyer' },
talk: { as: 'client', mail: 'client_domain', calls: 'bridged' } },
nurturer: { pool: closers, pay: 150 },
},
// …
outcome: { amount: 'closed_value', proof: 'payment', match: { customer: 'account', metadata: 'deal' },
window: { bank: '60d', card: '120d' }, tail: '90d', due: '90d', collect: job => (job.output.billing === 'monthly' ? 'each' : 'first') },
price: { usd: 0, share: '5%', of: 'closed_value', on: 'won', ai: 40,
lines: { referral: { share: '1%', of: 'closed_value', to: 'referrer', on: 'won' } } },Nothing on effort. A share of the closed value at won, proven by the payment and held for its reversal window.
What a job leaves you
- A $74,000 deal, won by a closer$3,388.66$11,100.00 at won, on the payment · closer $7,400.00 · setter $250.00 · placement $50.00 · AI $11.34
- A $30,000 deal, won by AI alone$1,490.88$1,500.00 at won, on the payment · AI $9.12
- A deal a closer loses−$340.00$0.00 · setter $250.00 · placement $50.00 · AI $40.00
Your first hour
Then 7 pages
The Deal ServiceThe closers' PoolThe moneyEvery branchEvery deal shapePorting api.forsaleTake your first real deal
The mechanism, when you need it · 6 pages
Add to any shape
- Your first Pool of people11 pages, from Pool(): your marketplace to The attorneys' Pool
- Run a market of people9 pages, from Conflicts without disclosure to A simulated market
- Records sold per unit4 pages, from Sourced output to Tax transcript
Your own Service: write the first one from your own work, then grow it a key at a time. Or start at your shape's first page above.