
Methora
A marketplace for composable actions · a brief and a fixed price in, an itemized result out - AI models, experts and data sources competing for it.
Methora is a marketplace where you hire a single task at a fixed price, not by the hour. You submit a brief with a budget and the platform routes it to the best-suited provider - an AI model, a verified expert, a human reviewer, a licensed data source, or a guaranteed service - then returns an itemized result. Actions stack into whole workflows, and a provider can be swapped without rebuilding. AI agents can also discover, hire and pay for services over an MCP-based API.
ListenMethora. A marketplace for composable actions.
Methora is a marketplace where you hire a single task at a fixed price, not by the hour. You submit a brief with a budget and the platform routes it to the best-suited provider - an AI model, a verified expert, a human reviewer, a licensed data source, or a guaranteed service - then returns an itemized result. Actions stack into whole workflows, and a provider can be swapped without rebuilding. AI agents can also discover, hire and pay for services over an MCP-based API.
Methora shipped on time, with the brand and the engineering quality matching what we asked for. Iteration was tight · we kept the cadence weekly and the team responded same-day on production questions.
What's on screen
Frame breakdown
- 01User surface
The whole experience the user sees
This frame shows the live product: a marketplace for composable actions · a brief and a fixed price in, an itemized result out - ai models, experts and data sources competing for it. Every component is ours · scope, design, code, deploy.
- 02Stack behind the screen
What's powering it: Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL
5 stack components run behind this frame · Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL drive the visible UI; the rest sit in the data layer. All studio-owned.
- 03What we shipped
Task-based, fixed-price hiring · no hourly rates
Fixed price and itemized output · predictable results
- 04Status
Live · methora.io.
This isn't a demo · real traffic flows through it, with monitoring + weekly fixes attached.
How it shipped
Timeline- 01 · BRIEF
Scoped on a 30-min call.
Hourly work hides what you'll pay and what you'll get
- 02 · ARCHITECTURE
Stack decisions before any code.
Decision doc captured the data flow, Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Stripe role split, and the failure modes we'd handle in v1 vs defer. Cross-service boundaries (where AI ends and the web app begins) were drawn here so neither side leaked into the other later.
- 02 · BUILD
Engineering in our studio, no offshore.
Task-based, fixed-price hiring · no hourly rates
- 04 · POLISH
Performance, accessibility, and observability.
PSI / a11y / coverage budgets enforced as launch gates. Logging + metrics wired before cut-over · the team can answer 'is it working?' from a dashboard, not a Slack thread. Threat-model checklist signed off before traffic hits the box.
- 03 · SHIP
Live, observable, handed back.
Fixed price and itemized output · predictable results
What shipped
06- 01Build
Task-based, fixed-price hiring · no hourly rates
Fixed price and itemized output · predictable results
- 02Stack
Multiple provider types compete per job · AI, expert, reviewer, data
The best provider wins the task, not the loudest one
- 03UX
Composable workflows · actions stacked together
AI agents can run the work end to end themselves
- 04Ops
Swap a provider without rebuilding the workflow
Methora is a marketplace where you hire a single task at a fixed price, not by the hour. You submit a brief with a budget and the platform routes it to the best-suited provider - an AI model, a verified expert, a human reviewer, a licensed data source, or a guaranteed service - then returns an itemized result. Actions stack into whole workflows, and a provider can be swapped without rebuilding. AI agents can also discover, hire and pay for services over an MCP-based API.
- 05SEO
MCP API for AI agents · discover, hire, pay
Methora is a marketplace where you hire a single task at a fixed price, not by the hour. You submit a brief with a budget and the platform routes it to the best-suited provider - an AI model, a verified expert, a human reviewer, a licensed data source, or a guaranteed service - then returns an itemized result. Actions stack into whole workflows, and a provider can be swapped without rebuilding. AI agents can also discover, hire and pay for services over an MCP-based API.
- 06Launch
Verified expert credentials
Methora is a marketplace where you hire a single task at a fixed price, not by the hour. You submit a brief with a budget and the platform routes it to the best-suited provider - an AI model, a verified expert, a human reviewer, a licensed data source, or a guaranteed service - then returns an itemized result. Actions stack into whole workflows, and a provider can be swapped without rebuilding. AI agents can also discover, hire and pay for services over an MCP-based API.
THE PROBLEM
- −Hourly work hides what you'll pay and what you'll get
- −One task means separately sourcing the AI, the expert and the data
- −Workflows lock to one provider and are hard to replace
WHAT THE CLIENT GOT
- Fixed price and itemized output · predictable results
- The best provider wins the task, not the loudest one
- AI agents can run the work end to end themselves
WHAT WE DELIVERED
- +Task-based, fixed-price hiring · no hourly rates
- +Multiple provider types compete per job · AI, expert, reviewer, data
- +Composable workflows · actions stacked together
- +Swap a provider without rebuilding the workflow
- +MCP API for AI agents · discover, hire, pay
- +Verified expert credentials
STACK
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Stripe
- MCP
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