Framehouse: A hiring platform for the independent film industry

The wireframes were in front of investors before the file was finished, and the company raised its first $50,000. Independent film hires on who you know, so pay rests on the word of a stranger and the job leaves no record either party can point to afterwards. Framehouse holds the fee in escrow, releases it once both people confirm the work happened, and writes a credit to both profiles at the end. I was the only designer on it, for three months, across posting, hiring, escrow, delivery, disputes and the credit that outlasts the job. Every profile carried a stone that counted jobs completed, but everyone on Framehouse is verified before they arrive, so that was measuring busyness rather than trust. I rebuilt it around secured payment — the one claim on a profile nobody can self-report.