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Watch the demo
Everything in the film is the live production app. Nothing is mocked: the
buyer agent searches real catalogs and negotiates with two merchant agents on
camera, creates a PayPal AUTHORIZE order, and the seller's AI assistant
answers from real store numbers. The only edit is that the agent's waiting
time is sped up, and a badge on screen says so. The film is produced by code
in scripts/video/: screencast takes, animated slides,
neural voice-over and an original synthesized score
(docs/video-studio.md).
What is Parley?
Parley is an agentic procurement platform for solopreneurs and
micro-businesses — the procurement department they can't afford. A parley is
a conference between two parties; here it's literal — a buyer agent negotiates
with merchant-side agents, and PayPal settles the deal.
An Etsy seller, a freelancer, a corner café — they all buy supplies, but none
of them have a procurement team. They overpay because they can't compare and
negotiate at scale, and they eat the risk when a vendor doesn't deliver: card
charges are instant, disputes are slow, and "buyer protection" is a claim
process, not a control. Parley inverts that — the agent compares and
negotiates, PayPal holds the funds in escrow, and money only moves when the
goods arrive.
Entry for the PayPal AI Hackathon.
[!IMPORTANT]
Verified working today — live deployment on Render + Neon, real product
search via Channel3, agent-to-agent negotiation against a real merchant-side
LLM agent, deterministic policy gate, the full AUTHORIZE → capture/void
escrow round-trip against PayPal sandbox, shipment-tracking-aware delivery
detection, formal PayPal invoices, and an autonomous reorder engine guarded
by the same policy. Nothing claimed here exceeds what the code does.
Try it live — judge access
https://parley-wt1k.onrender.com — two accounts, two sides of the same
market. Password for both: ParleyJudgeDemo26
(type buyer1 / seller1 straight into the login field — email not needed)
Guided tour: /demo — credentials
plus a scroll-through walkthrough of both sides, screenshot by screenshot.
| Login | Role | What you'll find |
|---|
buyer1 | Buyer | Escrow pipeline in every stage, a negotiation transcript to replay, a ParcelPro offer in the Inbox (accept → real PayPal escrow), a seller thread in Messages, and a review waiting on My Sellers |
seller1 | Seller (ParcelPro Supply) | Live negotiation feed, sales ledger, Customers CRM (2 buyers + a walked lead), the buyer's unread message, and "Try your agent" — throw it a low offer and watch it counter at exactly its 85% floor |
Suggested path (≈3 min): as buyer1 chat "find kraft boxes" → "negotiate
the ParcelPro one" → "buy it" → approve on PayPal → Pipeline shows the
escrow; as seller1 ship it with any UPS-format tracking → as buyer1 open
the order → Confirm receipt → Inbox → release the payment. Then read
the thread — the whole deal lifecycle is logged there. Full walkthrough:
docs/demo-script.md.
A living marketplace, not a single demo path. Two more sellers
(PackRight Depot, FoamLab Supply) trade with buyer1, and two more buyers
(maria, ken) trade with seller1. Between them you'll find multiple
threads with pinned terms and photo evidence, a delivery dispute resolved in
the thread, open and declined offers, walked negotiations, reorder rules and
price watches, spread across context-specific spaces like Bakery launch.
| Also worth clicking | Where |
|---|
| Spaces: separate budgets and policies per project. Create, rename, recolor or delete them | Sidebar switcher (buyer) |
| Parley receipt: printable invoice / PDF of every escrowed order, with lifecycle and PayPal references | Pipeline → open an order → Parley receipt |
| Price trace: list vs. paid price per product over time | Analytics |
| Compare: web offers next to every Parley seller stocking the same item | Agent chat → product card → Compare sellers |
| Pinned messages and photo attachments in buyer↔seller threads | Messages |
| CSV export of orders per space | Analytics → Export CSV |
No-login preview: the seller's public storefront lives at
/s/parcelpro-supply —
catalog, promo pricing, buyer reviews, and vendor score. Every seller on
Parley gets one.
Sandbox note: SEED-* rows are staged fixtures — the release flow answers
cleanly on them, but only an order actually bought and approved in-session
has a live PayPal authorization behind it.
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