The handshake, enforced.
Payment protection for contractor jobs. The money sits with a licensed escrow partner and releases as the work gets done. Deposits can't vanish. Finished work can't go unpaid.
Where contractor jobs go wrong.
The final payment never comes.
The work is done and approved. Then the client sits on the last check for weeks, and you have no leverage to collect it.
Scope creeps, no change order.
“Just one more thing” turns into unpaid hours nobody agreed to, with no record of what the deal actually was.
A texted “yes” disappears.
The agreement lived in a text thread that vanishes the moment it matters. It becomes your word against theirs.
Going first shouldn’t mean going unpaid. Pythias turns the handshake into a record that holds.
The money waits in escrow until the work is done.
The client funds each milestone into escrow held by a licensed escrow partner. The money is set aside before work starts, the contractor can see it is there, and it releases as each milestone is approved.
Pythias is the record and the backup, never the one holding the money.
Agree. Fund. Release. Resolve.
Agree
A signed scope and milestone schedule, in minutes.
Fund
The client funds each milestone into licensed escrow.
Release
Money releases as work is accepted, milestone by milestone.
Resolve
If payment stalls, your records become an evidence packet and a payment request, ready to send.
Not a mockup. The shipping product.
Everything on this page runs in the Pythias app today: milestone deals with escrow held by a licensed partner, the payment recovery packet, consent-based verification, and the documents.
Live on the web now. On iPhone via TestFlight during early access.
Any deal where someone goes first.
Contractor jobs today. Private loans, deposits, freelance work, and turning an old unpaid invoice into a recovery packet next. One place to keep the record and protect the money on every private deal.
How it stays safe.
We never hold your money.
Funds move directly between you and the other person, or sit with a licensed escrow partner. Pythias is the record and the backup, never the one holding it.
You stay in control.
Verification runs only when the other person agrees, and only when you choose. A deal never requires it.
Reputation you earn.
Reputation here comes only from real deals paid on Pythias. No rumors, no republished accusations.
Arizona-specific documents.
Every deal produces a written, signed agreement built on Arizona-specific templates.
Real deals. Real people. Real recourse.
Every Pythias deal is a signed agreement, a verified person on the other side, and a payment record that holds up when it counts.
Trusted by the people who go first.
I stopped chasing final payments. The money is in escrow before I start, and it releases the moment the work is accepted.
A signed scope and funded milestones mean scope creep just stops. Everyone knows exactly what the deal is.
I could see exactly where my money sat at every step. No more wondering whether I had paid too much, too soon.
