Money held, not sent
Your payment waits in escrow and only moves when you approve the work, or on a dispute decision.
About
Why this exists
Every year people send money home to build something, and a large share of it buys nothing at all.
- 3
- verified providers
- 6
- services live
- 2
- countries covered
Our story
Trust, replaced with a mechanism
The usual answer is to trust somebody. A cousin, a friend of a friend, a contractor recommended over the phone. That works until it does not, and when it fails there is no record of anything, because the whole arrangement was verbal.
Diatitis replaces the trust with a mechanism. The money is held rather than sent. Somebody independent goes and looks. What they record is fingerprinted and measured against the ground, and either side can dispute it. Nothing here asks you to believe anyone, including us.
What actually happens
Four ways money sent home disappears
- 01The foundation was never poured
Photographs arrive. They are of somebody else's site.
- 02The plot was sold twice
Both buyers have papers. Only one has possession.
- 03The relative was lied to as well
They meant well and had no way to check either.
- 04Nothing was written down
The whole arrangement was a phone call. There is no record to argue from.
How Diatitis fixes it
Four safeguards on every order
Built into the platform, not promised in a brochure.
Every provider checked by a person
Identity and business documents are read by a person before anyone can sell here.
Proof from the ground
With Shield, an independent field proxy visits the site. Photos are fingerprinted and checked against where they were taken.
A record for every dispute
Messages, deliveries and evidence stay on the order, so a dispute is decided on facts.
What we will not claim
Four limits, stated before you need them
If any of that had been buried in a terms page instead, it would be worth less.
- 1This is not third party escrow
An independent escrow agent is a separate regulated entity holding the funds. Ours sit in our account at a regulated payment institution, controlled by a ledger. That is a real protection and a real distinction, and you should know which one you have.
- 2We cannot verify what a recording shows
We prove the file has not changed since it arrived, and that it arrived from that place at that time. What is in the frame is for you to judge. No technology can promise otherwise, and a platform selling verification should be the last to pretend.
- 3Erasure here is honest, not absolute
Financial records are kept because the law requires it, anonymised so they no longer point at you. A published review keeps its rating and loses your words, because deleting it entirely would rewrite a provider's record because you left.
- 4A verified provider can still do bad work
Verification proves who somebody is, not how well they build. That is what the held payment, the site visit and the dispute are for. If verification alone were enough, none of the rest would need to exist.
Where our providers are
Every provider on this plot has had their documents read by a person. Positions are the real coordinates of each city.
Get work done back home, without guessing
Pay into escrow, follow the work, and release the money when you are satisfied.
