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service-place: taking the admin off the job, not just listing the job
Service marketplaces are good at discovery and bad at the paperwork after the booking. service-place is built around an 8-agent AI layer that handles the admin — bookkeeping, contracts, support — a solo provider can't afford to hire for.
The problem: discovery is solved, admin isn’t
Every services marketplace solves “find a provider.” Almost none solve what happens after the booking — invoicing, contracts, reconciling GST/BAS, chasing e-signatures — the unglamorous admin load that a solo tradesperson or consultant can’t afford to hire a back office for.
service-place (Coral #FF6A3D + mint, independent brand, GCP serviceplace-bixso) is built
around an explicit answer to that: a “One-Person Company (OPC) OS” for solo providers, with an
AI layer whose job is specifically to remove admin, not just add a chat widget.
Eight agents, one job each
Following BIXSO’s Task & Process orchestration pattern (deliberately simpler than a full multi-agent swarm — the problem doesn’t need more than this):
- AI bookkeeper — reads an invoice and extracts vendor, date, amount, GST and BAS category for reconciliation.
- Contract assistant — auto-fills Australian service-agreement templates and tracks e-signature status.
- Support assistant — handles routine customer-care questions, with a human fallback for anything it can’t resolve.
Six more agents cover matching, scheduling, project planning and marketplace search across the platform’s 23 backend routes.
The architecture, honestly
The backend runs on Cloud Run in australia-southeast1 — the region matters, it’s a compliance
and latency choice for an AU-only marketplace — on a dual-mode store (PostgreSQL in production,
in-memory for tests) with the BIXSO Gateway wired through OIDC+HMAC and Energy-metered AI calls
(with a Vertex AI fallback for when the Gateway isn’t reachable, not the other way round). CI/CD is
a real GitHub Actions pipeline: push to main → build → deploy → curl-verify the live domain.
Revenue model is explicit, not hidden behind “contact sales”: SaaS tiers ($49–199 AUD/month) + AI Energy pay-as-you-spend (1⚡ = $0.02, 200⚡ free/month) + a planned 1–3% take-rate + 15–20% expert marketplace fee.
Where it stands
Live in production since 03/07/2026 at serviceplace.com.au. Full architecture writeup: bixso.ai/work/service-place.
Book a consult if the admin behind your services business is the part actually costing you time.