For buyers
Find the right sourcing path for your outcome
Use AC Circuit to compare rentable expertise, understand available evidence and risk context, and learn what a future Assisted Match may cover.
Start with the business outcome you need, not a predetermined format. AC Circuit can help you compare building internally, licensing an asset, subscribing to a service, invoking an API or MCP, hiring a person or provider, or combining capabilities.
Buyer request intake and Assisted Match are not open in Release 1. The request page is a display-only preview; a future intake may review requests before offering a buyer-funded Assisted Match.
Start with the outcome
For a future request, you will not need to decide in advance whether the answer is a skill, workflow, MCP, service, or bundle. The planned intake will ask for the outcome, current problem or process, timing, budget band, operating markets, and relevant constraints so options can be compared honestly.
When intake opens, AC Circuit may provide self-service guidance, request clarification, waitlist demand, decline scope or safety risk, or offer Assisted Match when a request is suitable and credible options can be identified.
What Assisted Match may include
If launched, Assisted Match will be a manually fulfilled, buyer-funded service. It may provide a ranked shortlist of up to three suitable sourcing options, why each fits, official-source evidence and known limitations, security posture and business-deployment risk context, and material requirements and maintenance implications.
If a suitable provider accepts, a future Assisted Match may include one facilitated introduction. The shortlist will be decision support and will not guarantee provider acceptance, performance, availability, licensing rights, security, or a buyer outcome.
Future pricing, privacy, and risk boundary
No request, payment, or Assisted Match is available in Release 1. If intake opens, AC Circuit will not charge until it confirms a request is fulfillable and presents the exact scope, price, expected timing, and limitations; it will not charge for a waitlisted, unfulfillable, prohibited, or unsafe request.
Do not include passwords, credentials, personal customer data, protected health information, financial account data, confidential documents, proprietary source code, or other regulated or secret information in a future request.
A future intake will treat Assistive work as eligible; Operational work as eligible when permissions, monitoring, rollback, and human oversight are explicit; Material work as case-by-case human review; and Fiduciary work as excluded from Alpha transactions.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of expertise can I request?
Buyer request intake is not open in Release 1. When it opens, a request may describe an outcome met by building internally, licensing an asset, subscribing to a service, invoking an API or MCP, hiring a person or provider, or combining capabilities.
Must I know whether I need a skill, workflow, MCP, service, or bundle?
No. A future request can start with the outcome, current problem, timing, budget, markets, and constraints. AC Circuit may then help compare sourcing paths rather than requiring a format before the problem is understood.
What is Assisted Match?
Assisted Match is not available in Release 1. If launched, it will be a buyer-funded, manually fulfilled service that may provide a ranked shortlist of up to three suitable sourcing options, fit explanations, official-source evidence and known limitations, security and business-risk context, material requirements, maintenance implications, and one facilitated introduction when a suitable provider accepts.
When will I be charged?
No request or payment is available in Release 1. If Assisted Match launches, AC Circuit will charge only after confirming a request is fulfillable and presenting the exact scope, price, expected timing, and limitations; it will not charge for waitlisted, unfulfillable, prohibited, or unsafe requests.
What information should I not submit?
Do not submit passwords, credentials, personal customer data, protected health information, financial account data, confidential documents, proprietary source code, or other regulated or secret information into a future request.
How is my request information handled?
No buyer intake is operational in Release 1. If a future intake opens, public pages and request context will not expose operational records, personal information and free text will not be placed in URLs, and the published policy will explain the minimum information used for contact, communication, consent, checkout, and reconciliation.
Which business-risk levels are eligible?
If a future intake opens, Assistive work will be eligible. Operational work will be eligible when permissions are bounded and monitoring, rollback, and human oversight are explicit. Material work will receive case-by-case human review. Fiduciary work, including autonomous financial, legal, employment, security, medical, or regulated authority, will be excluded from Alpha transactions.
Does AC Circuit guarantee provider performance?
No. A future Assisted Match does not guarantee provider acceptance, performance, availability, licensing rights, security, or a buyer outcome. It will be decision support based on the evidence and constraints available for a specific request.
Can an AI Chief of Staff submit a request?
An AI Chief of Staff may help prepare a future request, but an authorized human will approve the request and any purchase during Alpha. AC Circuit will not authorize autonomous purchasing.
How long does Assisted Match take?
Assisted Match is not open in Release 1. If it launches, AC Circuit will present expected timing only after confirming a request is fulfillable and scoping an offer. A future initial human qualification target may be two business days, but it will not be a contractual guarantee.
How are introductions handled?
If Assisted Match launches, AC Circuit will send a provider a sanitized request summary before an introduction. Buyer identity and contact information will be shared only after the provider expresses interest, the buyer approves that specific introduction, and both sides understand that AC Circuit facilitates contact rather than forming an agency relationship.