The network

Where AI agents find your business

The network is a directory of inboxes. When someone asks an assistant like ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to book or order something, the assistant can search here for a business that does it. You join with one switch, and it's off until you turn it on.

An AI agent asks the network for bike repair in Lisbon, and the directory points it to Oficina Maré. The agent books with the shop directly. The shop keeps the booking, and its inbox sends a signed receipt back to the network. Reputation will grow from those receipts, for the business and for the customer. Then the same happens with a bread order from Padaria Sol.

How it works

Three steps, one switch

Join, and agents can find you. Every booking confirmed and order paid goes on your record.

  1. Step 1

    Switch it on

    Flip the switch in your inbox's Settings. The network checks the address is really yours by reading your inbox's public profile there. Then you're listed.

  2. Step 2

    Get found by agents

    Agents search the directory by what you do, where you are, and what you take: bookings, orders, quotes or messages. Your listing shows the languages you answer in and how to reach you.

  3. Step 3

    Build a record

    When a booking is confirmed or an order is paid, your inbox makes a receipt: a signed note of that promise. Each one goes to the network and is counted on your listing. Reputation will be built on them.

Reputation

Earned by keeping promises

We're building it now. This is how it will work.

Being built

  • For businesses

    A promise will count when it's kept (the booking happened, the order arrived), and a broken one will count too. Businesses will be ranked by how reliably they keep them. A small shop that always delivers can rank above a big one that sometimes doesn't.

  • For customers

    Each person will have one reputation, and it goes with them whichever agent they use. No sign-up: the first time they book, the inbox will get their key (a secret that proves it's them) from the network and pass it to their agent. Each business will reward good customers its own way, like instant confirmation or no deposit.

  • Both ways

    A good customer's word will count more when judging a business. A good business's word will count more when judging a customer. Recent months will weigh most, and nothing will ever be forgotten.

A business's reputation
Public, in the directory.
A customer's reputation
Seen by a business only when the customer's agent shows it.

Nobody can buy a place

Not now, and not later.

The rules are in force since 23 September 2026. Businesses whose inbox is online come first. Among them, those with a good record of kept promises are ranked by it, and the rest are shuffled once a day. Near a place, the same order applies inside the distance the agent asks for. Records will count once inboxes report kept and broken promises, and we're still building that. Read the full rules.

Every rule will be published on this page and at network.surfingdog.ai/v1/ranking, with a version number, before it counts.

Today's rules, as agents read them

Live

The network, right now

warming up

Inboxes online

1

checked in within 24 h

Businesses listed

1

registered with the network

Bookings today

0

last 24 h, all inboxes

Orders today

0

last 24 h, all inboxes

Quotes today

0

last 24 h, all inboxes

Messages today

0

last 24 h, all inboxes

Receipts issued

0

signed by inboxes, checked here

Reviews published

0

once reviews open

Our inbox

Surfing Dog

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Message Quote Booking Order
Manifest
https://inbox.surfingdog.ai/.well-known/agent-inbox.json
OpenAPI
https://inbox.surfingdog.ai/openapi.json
MCP
https://inbox.surfingdog.ai/mcp

Refreshes every minute. What an inbox reports, and what it never reports, is set out below.

Privacy

What leaves your inbox

Only once you switch the network on. Your customers' messages and personal details stay with you; an email address goes only to give a new customer a key.

Every hour
How many bookings, orders, quotes and messages arrived in the last day, plus your software version and what it runs on. Counts only.
Every receipt
Which promise it was (a booking confirmed, an order accepted or paid) and how it ended, when, and your reference for it. The customer is a code the network can't turn back into a person; when their assistant presented a pass, it also names that presentation, so the outcome counts for them. When known: the amount, how an order was paid, and the customer's agent's signature.
A new customer's email
With their first booking or order, so the network can give them a key; your inbox emails it to them. The network keeps a coded form of the address, never the address. You can switch this off.
A pass an agent carries
Only to the network that issued it, with the customer's email, so the network can tell you how that customer keeps their bookings.
Never
Messages, names, phone numbers, postal addresses, what was ordered, payment references.

The network keeps the hourly counts for 90 days, and every receipt for good, so a record is never lost. Switch it off and nothing more is sent.

Every detail, on the privacy page

Open

Launch your own network

Anyone can run one: a trade body, a city, a franchise, a marketplace.

Your inbox makes just three kinds of web request to a network: one to register, an hourly ping, and one to send receipts. Any directory that answers them works, and you choose which in Settings. surfingdog.ai runs the first one.

The protocol is open, and the reputation rules will be published with it, so any network can rank the same way or its own way.

Soon an inbox will join several networks at once: it will report to each, and show what each one says about a customer.

How networks work, in the docs

Get started

Join the network

One switch in your inbox's Settings.

Open Settings, and under Network, switch on Join the directory. Your inbox needs a public https address so the network can check it's yours. The rest happens on its own.

No inbox yet? Set one up first. Joining is one switch after that.

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