Name: Gatekeeper
Brand: DEPLOYR
Price: 159 USD
Availability: PreOrder

Picture this

Who it is for

Funke gets 300 cold DMs a day. Gatekeeper reads them, lets friends through, and asks strangers for 2 USDC refunded if she finds it useful.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$159

$40 deposit to reserve

Reach page, AI triage, refundable fee escrow, allowlist

You choose: chain
You choose: name and logo
You choose: accent color
You choose: fee

Customfrom $900

Built around you

Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.

Everything in Base
Custom features and design
Priority build

Why it is new

What exists today, and what this does differently

What is new

Pay-to-reach exists in several forms; combining AI triage with refundable crypto fees is the uncommon part.

Closest things out there

VipInbox x402 pays recipients USDC for delivered mail, Heed (Taiko) charges onchain fees to reach a recipient, and Inboxly uses refundable deposits; none found adding AI triage.

Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.

What it unlocks

The human in it

Your attention is priced, and protected.

The Regatta Board

Races it can enter

buildathon · Base · upcoming

Onchain Summer

seasonal (summer); 2027 dates unknown

Official page ↗

Consumer onchain; eligibility unknown

Their rule on existing code: unknown

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

The complete Gatekeeper app: an AI doorman for your inbox and DMs that waves your people in, bounces scams before they can pay, and asks strangers for a refundable USDC fee, with a paywall built in. The owner console and growth loops are optional add-ons.

Base price · $159

The user app, complete

Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.

Three step onboardingHome

Shown once: the avalanche, the side gate, the coin tray.

Tonight at the door and next actionHome

Walked in, on the tray and bounced counts with one clear next step.

Sunday digest with streakHome

Paid messages waiting, refund deadlines and unsure senders in one weekly list. Gated behind Creator.

Live triage queueGate

Every request sorted into walked in, asked for the fee, or bounced, with the reason for each.

Voice note readingGate

Strangers' voice notes become text you can skim. Gated behind Creator.

Refundable fee escrowTray

Fees held in a USDC escrow on Base. Useful refunds the sender, not for me releases it, silence refunds automatically.

Reach pageTray

The public page strangers see, with the fee and refund promise. Paying never marks a sender as verified.

Escrow receiptsTray

Escrow open, settle hash, amount and outcome for every paid message.

Scam bouncing and appealsBounced

Scams never see a pay button. Real people bounced by mistake can appeal and be let in with one tap.

Shared blocklist opt inBounced

Hashed scam domains and phrasing shared between gates, never message content.

House rulesRules

Side gate for friends and clients, fee, refund window, quiet hours. Custom fee, window and quiet hours are gated behind Creator.

Plans, receipts and what is onchainMe

Pricing from the owner paywall via USDC checkout, hours saved chart, receipts, and the onchain versus private split.

Open the full app demo

Add-on

Owner console

Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.

Revenue and paywall editorRevenue

Plan MRR, platform cut, incoming USDC payments, payouts, payment methods and live editing of tiers and gates.

Safety and platform rulesSafety

Platform cut, max fee, domain and account age thresholds, shared blocklist, gas sponsoring, free low priority requests.

Agent log and roadmapAgent

What the triage agent did including failures and adaptations, running costs, and the priced Roadmap.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.

Growth loops and cohortsGrowth

Protected by Gatekeeper badge, refunded senders becoming owners, creator nights, referrals and cohort retention.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

Scam bouncing and the side gate are free for everyone. Creators pay monthly for the knobs, studios pay for a shared gate, and the owner takes a small cut of fees that gate owners choose to keep. Refunds are never cut.

FreeFreeSide gate list, scam and spam bouncing, 1 USDC fixed fee, 5% cut on kept fees

Creator$9 a monthCustom fee and refund window, quiet hours, voice note reading, Sunday digest, 2% cut

Team$29 a monthShared gate for a studio, routing by topic to the right person, exportable reports

Platform cut of 5% on the free plan and 2% on paid plans, only on fees the gate owner keeps. Escrow gas on Base (under $0.01) can be sponsored by the owner.

Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

Protected by Gatekeeper: every fee request and bounce links to making a gate
Refunded senders become gate owners themselves
Creator nights at hubs that onboard members in a batch
Six week share card: scams bounced and hours saved
Creator to creator referrals worth a free month for both

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The full gate

Reach page with refundable USDC escrow on Base
Triage agent with link and sender age checks
Side gate list, quiet hours, voice notes
Appeals for bounced senders and a shared blocklist
Paywall with Free, Creator and Team plans

Included

Every inbox, and agents pay too

Gmail and Outlook gates beside DMs
x402 endpoint so AI agents pay the same fair fee
Team routing by topic to the right person
Solana escrow option

Add-on from $400

The scam signal network

Privacy preserving signal sharing across thousands of gates
Kill a new scam domain within hours
Public monthly report on scams bounced and fees refunded
Unclaimed fees donated to a cause the owner picks

Add-on from $900

For investors and grant reviewers

The pitch, ready

An AI doorman for your inbox: friends walk in, scams bounce, strangers put down a fee they get back if it was worth your time.

Problem: Creators, founders and small business owners get hundreds of cold DMs a day. The few that matter drown under spam and polished scams, and blocking strangers shuts out real opportunity.

Solution: A triage agent waves known people through and bounces scams before a pay button is ever shown. Genuine strangers put a small USDC fee in escrow on Base, refunded if the message was useful or ignored.

Why now: Small fast models make triage nearly free, USDC on Base settles for under a cent, embedded wallets remove crypto friction, and x402 lets AI agents pay to reach humans under the same rules.

Market: Creators, founders, investors and small studios drowning in cold outreach, plus the coming wave of AI agents doing outreach on their behalf.

The ask: Ten design partners who live in their DMs, a creator hub for the first creator night, and a Base ecosystem grant for the escrow audit.

Funding is never guaranteed. Check each program's rules.

For hackathons and demo days

Your 2 minute demo

Home: meet Funke, 29, a designer in Surulere with 312 requests a day burying her bridal clients.
Rules: write her house rules. Friends and clients walk in, strangers put down a refundable coin.
Gate: run tonight's queue. Tolu walks in, Kwame is asked for the fee, a polished scam bounces.
Owner Agent: the keyword filter failed, and the agent switched to link and sender age.
Tray: Kwame pays, Funke marks it useful and his coin goes back with an escrow receipt.
Bounced: Chidi was bounced by mistake, appeals, and is let in with one tap.
Owner Revenue: change the Creator price in the paywall editor and preview the user Plans screen.
Owner Growth and Roadmap: run a creator night, then request the v2 x402 agents build.

Many hackathons require code written at the event. See the Regatta Boardfor each race's rule.

Make it entirely yours

Custom work from $900: extra inbox platforms through official APIs, your own triage rules and categories, CRM integrations, team routing for agencies, or a branded deployment. Scoped on a call.

Custom from $900

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The need

Creators, founders and small business owners get hundreds of cold DMs and emails a day. The few that matter (a client, a supplier, a real collaborator) drown under spam and polished scams, and blocking strangers entirely shuts out real opportunity.

What exists and what is new

Pay-to-reach is not new. VipInbox uses x402 to pay recipients USDC for delivered mail, Heed (an open source Taiko project) charges an onchain fee to reach a recipient, and Inboxly uses refundable deposits. What we did not find is AI triage in front of the fee: an agent that waves known people through, bounces scams before they can pay, and only asks genuine strangers for a deposit that is refunded if the message was useful or ignored. The combination is the uncommon part, not any single piece.

The data it runs on

Message metadata and text read locally or through the user's connected inbox, an allowlist (contacts, client list), link and domain age signals, sender account age, and escrow events on Base. Message content and the allowlist stay off-chain and encrypted; only escrow amounts, outcomes and a message hash are onchain.

1.The mission

Make a person's attention something they control and strangers respect, so that reaching someone new costs a little care instead of nothing, and scammers cannot buy their way in.

2.Why people can't resist it

Silence ends The first night the inbox drops from 300 requests to nine is felt immediately. The weekly hours chart keeps that relief visible.

Fair to senders Senders get the fee back if the message was useful or ignored, so real people do not feel taxed and the owner cannot profit from silence.

The Sunday digest A short weekly ritual: paid messages waiting, refund deadlines, and senders the agent was unsure about. Clearing it keeps a streak.

3.How it works for real

Reach page and wallet: A public reach page per owner. Senders connect with Privy embedded wallets (email or social login) and pay in USDC on Base. No wallet is needed for allowlisted contacts.

Triage agent: A small fast model (for example Claude Haiku 4.5 or GPT 5 mini class via OpenRouter) classifies each message as known, stranger, spam or scam, then a rules layer checks link domain age, sender account age and bulk-send fingerprints. Scams are bounced before a fee is ever offered.

Escrow contract: A minimal escrow contract on Base holds each fee with a deadline. Owner marks useful (refund) or not for me (release, minus a platform fee). No action by the deadline triggers an automatic refund callable by anyone.

Payment rail: USDC on Base, optionally via x402 so agents and apps can pay to reach the owner programmatically under the same rules.

Indexer and inbox store: A lightweight indexer (Ponder or a hosted subgraph) tracks escrow state. Message bodies, attachments and the allowlist are stored encrypted per owner, never onchain.

Notifications: Quiet hours, a morning digest by email or push, and a Sunday summary. Allowlisted contacts can bypass quiet hours.

Shared blocklist: Opt-in sharing of hashed scam domains and phrasing patterns between gates, with no message content shared.

4.Cost per use and pricing

Per message triaged: roughly 600 input and 80 output tokens on a small model, about $0.001 at Haiku 4.5 class pricing ($1 per million input, $5 per million output). Per paid message: an escrow open and a settle on Base, typically well under $0.01 each at normal gas. Example month for one creator: 9,000 messages triaged (about $9 in model cost), 120 paid messages (under $2 in gas), plus hosting around $20. Roughly $30 a month to run.

Free $0

Allowlist, spam and scam bouncing, 1 USDC fixed fee, 5% platform cut on kept fees.

Creator $9 a month

Custom fee and refund window, quiet hours, voice note reading, Sunday digest, 2% platform cut.

Team $29 a month

Shared gate for a studio or small company, routing by topic to the right person, exportable reports.

5.Growth loop

Every bounce and every fee request carries a small line that the recipient uses a gate, with a link to make one. Senders who get refunds become owners. Creators share the six week card (scams bounced, hours saved), which is the strongest advert.

6.Risks and guardrails

Perceived paywall: Some people will read any fee as rude. Guardrails: allowlist on by default, automatic refunds, and an option for free requests with a lower priority.

Fee as fake legitimacy: Scammers may pay to look legitimate. Scam checks run before a pay button is shown, and paying never adds a verified badge.

Misclassification: The agent will sometimes bounce a real person. Bounced senders see a clear appeal path, and the owner sees uncertain cases in the digest.

Privacy of inbox data: Reading DMs is sensitive. Content is encrypted per owner, never used to train models, and never put onchain.

Regulatory: Holding user funds in escrow may raise money transmission questions in some places. Keep escrow non-custodial in a contract, and get local advice before launching widely.

Platform terms: Some social platforms restrict automated DM access. Start with email and a reach page link, and add platforms only through official APIs.

7.Build order

Reach page with Privy login and USDC on Base
Escrow contract with deadline and auto refund, audited
Triage agent on email first, with allowlist import
Link and sender age checks layered on the model
Morning digest and Sunday summary
Owner dashboard with outcomes and refund history
Opt-in shared blocklist of hashed scam patterns

8.Where this is going

Now
One gate for one creator's inbox: friends in, scams out, strangers pay a refundable fee.
Next
Gates across email, DMs and agent requests, with x402 so AI agents pay the same fair price to reach a human.
Later
A shared, privacy-preserving scam signal network across thousands of gates that kills a new scam within hours.
The world it builds
Attention is owned by the person it belongs to. Reaching someone new is still possible for anyone, but spam and fraud stop being free.

Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.

OWNER PLAYBOOK

Own it, then chart your voyage

Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.

Why own Gatekeeper

Your attention is the scarcest thing you have, and right now every platform gives it away for free. Own Gatekeeper and strangers pay a small refundable fee into your wallet to reach you, under your brand, with an AI triage you control. The fees, the allowlist and the reputation of a well guarded inbox are yours.

What’s stopping you?

“Will people think charging to DM me is rude?”

Some will. That is why the fee is refundable when you find the message useful, and friends never pay. Frame it as 'I read everything that comes through here', not as a toll.

“What if the AI lets spam through or blocks a friend?”

It will make mistakes in week one. Keep a manual allowlist, review the blocked folder daily for the first two weeks, and tune the rules from what you see.

“I can't code.”

You do not need to. Gatekeeper arrives working, deployed from your own wallet with a written guide for every step. You will click, paste and fill in names. If you ever want a change you cannot make, the custom option or a freelancer can handle it, but the first launch needs no code.

“Is it really mine?”

Yes. The contract is deployed from your wallet on Base, the code sits in your own git repo, and the name and brand are yours. DEPLOYR does not hold your keys or take a cut of what Gatekeeper earns. If you stop paying anyone tomorrow, the app keeps running on your wallet.

“What if nobody uses Gatekeeper?”

That is the most likely early outcome, and it is fixable. The paths below start with you as the first user, then ten real founders, creators and investors who drown in cold DMs you can name today. If ten people you message do not care after you have shown it to them, you have learned something useful in a week instead of a year.

The million-dollar ladder

Two streams: the owner keeps reach fees on their own page, and as an app owner you sell hosted reach pages to other busy people for a monthly plan plus a small cut of fees. This ladder is a target, not a promise.

$120

$2,610

$34,300

$85,400

First 10 users

10 busy people on a beta plan

$12 each

Proof it works

90 founders and creators

$29 each

Real business

700 founders, investors and creators