Coming soon · ElevenHacks 2026

The handshake,
on the record.

Voice-recorded escrow for freelancers and high-value peer-to-peer sales. Vera, our AI mediator, captures the agreement on both sides. Stripe holds the money. Every commitment is your voice on the record.

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Built on Stripe Connect + ElevenLabs ConvAI · 2.9% per deal · zero markup on Stripe

The moat

Other escrow services arbitrate from text trails.
Vouch arbitrates from your voice.

When something arrives broken, Vera replays the original commitment in the seller’s own voice. The seller cannot un-say it. The evidence is the promise — not a Messenger screenshot.

How it works

Four steps. No paperwork.

  1. 01

    Speak the deal with Vera

    Both parties answer five short questions in their own voice. Vera captures terms, currencies, and delivery dates as you talk.

  2. 02

    Joint sign-off

    Vera reads the final agreement back. Both parties say "I agree" in their own voice. The recording is the contract.

  3. 03

    Stripe locks the money

    Payment intent authorised, escrow held by Stripe Connect. A frozen virtual card is minted for the seller, sized to the escrow.

  4. 04

    Voice-confirm to release

    When the item arrives, the buyer says "yes" to Vera. Stripe captures the payment, routes to the seller, unfreezes the card. If something's wrong, the dispute replays the original promise.

For high-value sellers

Selling something worth £400+ to a stranger?

Phones, watches, used MacBooks, designer goods, anything where 'Venmo and pray' has burned you. Vouch holds the money in escrow until you both voice-confirm receipt.

“receive your money, on time”

For freelancers

Delivered work to a client who might ghost?

Designers, developers, copywriters — anyone who's chased an invoice after the work shipped. Vouch holds the client's payment before the work begins; voice-recorded acceptance criteria mean every deal is kept.

“every deal, kept”

The dispute moment

“Marcus said: no scratches.”

When something goes wrong, Vera replays the locked agreement in the seller’s own voice — at the exact moment they committed. Compared to a screenshot of a Facebook Marketplace chat, your voice on the record is unambiguous, unforgeable, and actionable.

Original recording (Marcus)2026-05-15 · 14:32

“iPhone 15, 256 gigs, white, unlocked, no scratches, in original box.”

Sarah’s evidence2026-05-21 · 11:08

“The screen has a crack across the bottom right. Not a scratch — a crack.”

Vera’s ruling

“Refund to Sarah. Marcus’s account flagged for review.”

Built on

Production-grade payments + the world’s most natural voices

Stripe

  • Connect Express (seller onboarding)
  • Payment Intents (manual capture escrow)
  • Issuing (frozen virtual cards, agentic commerce)
  • Application fees (2.9% — zero markup on Stripe)
  • Webhooks (state-machine source of truth)

ElevenLabs

  • ConvAI (Vera live, 80 languages, 5 session types)
  • Voice Library (Samara X — Vouch brand voice)
  • Eleven v3 Conversational (expressive audio tags)
  • Scribe v2 Realtime (legally-binding voice transcription)
  • TTS (pre-rendered contract recitations)

Trust the handshake.
Hold the money.

Stop arbitrating disputes from screenshots. Make every commitment a voice recording. The contract is your handshake, on the record.

Start a deal →See the demo