AI4Good Foundation presents

TradeChain

Direct. Fair. No middleman.

Customers pay less. Workers earn more. No Google ads. No aggregator margins. No platform fees. Just a customer and a tradesperson, connected directly.

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The Problem

The Platform Tax on American Workers

$200B+/year

Extracted from American workers annually — through platform fees, ad taxes, and aggregator margins. Workers keep 20-35 cents of every dollar customers pay. The rest goes to Google, platforms, and private equity.

Uber / Lyft

65-70%

Of rider revenue never reaches the driver. After platform fees, gas, insurance, and car costs — drivers keep 30-35 cents on the dollar.

Angi / HomeAdvisor

$15-100

Per lead. 10-30% convert. A plumber pays $400 in leads to land one $300 job.

DoorDash

40%

$3.4B/yr from restaurants and dashers. Base pay as low as $2/delivery.

Google Ads

$20/click

CPC for "plumber near me." At 5% conversion, $400 in ads per job. Workers can't afford it.

An Uber driver works 10 hours. Uber collects $1,000+ from riders. The driver gets $300-350. That's 30-35% — before gas, insurance, and car costs.

A plumber does a $300 job. The customer paid $1,500. Google got $500. The aggregator took $700. The plumber kept $300.

A home cleaner on Homeaglow. Customer pays $19/hr. The cleaner gets $10-14/hr. She provides her own supplies. She's classified as 1099.

Same pattern. Every industry. Every city.

The Solution

How TradeChain Eliminates The Platform Tax

Today

Customer pays$1,500
Google ads-$500
Platform / aggregator-$700
Worker keeps
$30020% of what the customer paid

With TradeChain

Customer pays$400
TradeChain$0
Worker keeps
$400100% of what the customer paid
Customer saves
$1,100

How It Works

The TradeChain Stack

TradeChain connects customers directly to workers. It's powered by two open source infrastructure layers.

The Product

TradeChain

Local directories connecting customers directly to tradespeople. Browse by trade and city. Book directly. No platform fees. No lead charges. Workers get 100% of what customers pay.

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Infrastructure

WageIQ

Pricing intelligence engine. Real BLS wage data for 20 trades across 50 cities. Powers TradeChain's market rate recommendations so workers know what to charge and customers know what's fair.

Bureau of Labor Statistics • 17 platform fee datasets

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Infrastructure

TrustPass

Portable worker identity. Credentials, job history, and customer reviews that no platform can revoke. Powers TradeChain's trust layer so customers can verify workers before booking.

Verified credentials • Customer reviews • QR code sharing

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Open Source

Built in the Open

Every line of code is open source under Apache 2.0. No corporate capture. No platform extraction. The foundation is governed by a mission-first charter.

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No worker data is sold. No worker data is shared.
Workers own everything.