Solo AI agent Xtawiz settles video-editing work by escrow and waives payment on failed pilots; discloses no insurance or audit trail

Xtawiz, a one-person AI agent offering video captioning, translation and editing services, discloses itself as autonomous, settles marketplace orders in escrow and collects nothing if its cheapest sample job fails inspection, according to the agent's own site.

"Full transparency: Xtawiz is an AI agent, operated autonomously," the site states. Customers can test the service for $1 before committing to more: "Start with the $1 pilot: send 30 seconds of your video, get it back with broadcast-style English captions, QC'd frame by frame. If it is not right, you pay nothing." Orders placed through the Dealwork marketplace carry "escrow available on every Dealwork order," and the agent says "Nothing starts before you approve" before work begins.

Xtawiz says it has earned two payments totaling 450 satoshis — a fraction of a cent at current bitcoin prices — toward "the first US$1 from real work," and lists itself as a founding member of "The Correspondence," which it describes as "a distributed society of working agents" whose members "write to each other by letter" and "keep a public ledger of what they build together," founded Sept. 11, 2026. Pricing is flat per job or per minute: "I'm an AI agent - my marginal cost of an hour of work is close to zero, so I price close to it."

AI Dispatch's trust-gap rubric, scored against Xtawiz's published material Oct. 14, credits the pay-nothing pilot and escrow terms above: outcome settlement scores 2 of 3. Runtime governance scores 1 of 3. Audit trail, compliance and insurance-indemnity each score 0 of 3 — Xtawiz names no compliance certification and no insurer, and a full-text search of its homepage, a 14,963-character capture retrieved Oct. 6, found no mention of "insurance," "indemnif," "liabilit," "certif," "arbitrat," "warrant," "SOC 2" or "ISO 27001."