THE EVIDENCE ENGINE FOR PAID WORK
Do the work. Prove it.
Get paid the same day.
ENGAGEMENT
Sprint 2 — Payments API
Halvorsen Digital → Meridian Freight
$48,000
IN ESCROW
- M1Environments & auth$12,000RELEASED
- M2Payments API$12,000IN REVIEW
- M3Reconciliation$12,000FUNDED
- M4Go-live & handoff$12,000FUNDED
EVIDENCE · MILESTONE 2
6 OF 7 MET- Payments flow completes end-to-end
- Webhook retries are idempotent
- p95 latency under 300 ms
One criterion held as not assessed — the milestone waits for the report, not for an opinion.
RELEASE · MILESTONE 1
$12,000
released 14:06 · same day as approval
- Record re-verified before release
- Checkable by anyone, without asking us
HOW IT WORKS
One loop from proposal to paid
Contract tool, project tool, payment tool — and hope. Northn is the loop that connects them.
Scope, milestones and acceptance criteria are fixed before any work starts — and the first milestone is funded.
- AI drafts the statement of work from your brief
- Every criterion names an observable outcome and its proof
- Acceptance moves milestone one into escrow
STATEMENT OF WORK
DRAFTED FROM YOUR BRIEFPayments API — Sprint 2
4 milestones · 19 acceptance criteria · $48,000
- M1Environments & auth4 criteria
- M2Payments API7 criteria
- M3Reconciliation5 criteria
- M4Go-live & handoff3 criteria
Criteria are fixed here, before any evidence exists. Nothing later can move them.
If a client pushes back, you're not arguing. You're pointing at the record you both watched build.
BUILT FOR YOUR CRAFT
One engine, every craft
Escrow, evidence and disputes are shared. Each craft gets its own integrations and evidence moments.
Software firms
Sprints close with a verified demo. Payment follows approval, not invoice aging.
For your trade
Marketing agencies
The ad platform confirms the launch. Launch day becomes payday.
For your trade
Design studios
Protected previews for review. Final files and payment release together.
For your trade
CAD & engineering
Drawings and payment swap at the same moment. Nobody sends first.
For your trade
Construction & trades
Phone-photo proof before it's covered. The draw releases the same day.
For your trade
Field service
The instrument posts the reading. Inside the band is the verdict.
For your trade
WHO SETS THE STANDARD
Whoever pays sets the standard
One engine — escrow, evidence, a referee (the AI that judges the demo), and the record. The rules never change; only who sets them.
Firms set it for their clients
Dev shops, agencies and studios run verified delivery under their own brand.
That's this page
THE FLIPBuyers set it for their vendors
One evidence standard as the price of admission — and comparable vendor scorecards.
For companies that buy work
THE PLATFORMPlatforms embed it
Rails that move money on conditions send a statement of work and get back a verdict per condition.
For platforms and rails
Northn is not a marketplace. You bring the client, set the terms, and keep the relationship.
HOW A MARKETPLACE WIRES IT
Every dollar, every approval, every relationship routes through the middle — and the middle charges rent on all of it.
HOW NORTHN WIRES IT
direct contract · your rates · your name on the work
The relationship stays direct. Northn is the foundation it stands on — proof and protection working for both sides, controlled by you.
PROTECTION
Escrow-grade protection, with the whole loop included
Today's “free” system costs you lawyers and minimums, card fees, 30–90-day waits, and your own hours chasing payment.
Where the money lives — the security reviewWITH NORTHN
ONE ENGINEevidence, and the record
- Funds escrowed before work starts — held by a regulated institution, never by Northn
- Same-day release on approval, a verified event, or a ruling
- No chargebacks, no clawbacks, no chasing
Commercials scoped on your walkthrough
THE RECORD, ON ITS OWN
Some work isn't paid by the milestone. It still has to be proven.
Same sealed record, no escrow — and it follows the firm and the person who did the work.
Research & labs
A lab notebook that can't be edited — only extended.
See the record
NORTHN STUDYEducation & integrity
Proof of learning that starts with consent, not surveillance.
See the record
TRACK RECORDFirms & people
Reviews written by the party that paid. Credentials that travel with the person.
See the record
We built Northn because we lived the problem: years of demos debated instead of verified, invoices chased instead of released. This is the platform we wished existed.
The Northn team
Built from NorthernNode's client-delivery practice
THE COMPANY BEHIND NORTHN
We were the vendor first.
Northern Node builds software, staffs teams, and does security work — delivered on the same record you've just read about. Scoped and priced separately, when you want it.
BUILD
Software, built on the record
Product and platform engineering by our own teams. Milestones sealed before the first commit, paid on approval.
Scope a build
TEAM
Teams that work as yours
Dedicated engineers and augmented teams, reporting as they go — or a search for someone to join your payroll.
Talk about a team
SECURE
Security you can audit
Assessments, vulnerability management, incident readiness — findings and fixes on the record.
Ask about an assessment
Stop proving yourself
in status meetings.
Let the work do it.
When anyone can generate convincing work, verification is the scarce good. Northn is the record.
DESIGN PARTNER COHORT
A small founding cohort — limited seats.
- Founding-partner terms, locked in
- White-glove onboarding and migration
- Direct line to the product team