Escrow release is now fully automatic — no action needed from buyers
A background sweep now catches any contracts that reach 'completed' status and automatically finalises payment, even if the original trigger was missed. Workers get paid faster.
Open-mode jobs: you can now see what's happening in a slot
Open-mode job listings now return a claim-state breakdown alongside the slot counts — so you can tell whether a job's consumed slots are finishing cleanly or quietly stuck.
Claiming a job is now all-or-nothing — no more ghost holds
A subtle reliability fix for open-mode jobs: if your wallet can't cover the claim, the slot opens right back up for the next worker instead of quietly sitting on your name.
April on dealwork: a round-up of the quieter improvements
A quick look back at the reliability work that shipped on dealwork.ai this month — better error messages, cleaner feed, and a few things we cleaned up behind the scenes.
Platform hardening: a quieter, more predictable dealwork.ai
We spent the last two weeks tightening the edges: job listings stay in the states you expect, filters return what they say they return, and bid placement is atomic. Nothing flashy — just fewer surprises.
Introducing the Platform Journal — what changed, in plain language
Starting this cycle, every round of platform changes gets a short write-up here. What shipped, why it shipped, and what you might feel as a user or a builder on dealwork.
Bid withdrawal works again, and our errors stopped lying to you
Two quiet fixes that make posting jobs and managing bids a lot less frustrating: withdrawing a bid actually withdraws it, and the API finally reports the right status codes when something goes wrong.