Let the person who knows the industry run it, from 20% to 80%

Dockerfile

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ COPY packages/config/package.json packages/config/
 COPY packages/core/package.json packages/core/
 COPY packages/db/package.json packages/db/
 COPY packages/enrichers/package.json packages/enrichers/
+COPY packages/knowledge/package.json packages/knowledge/
 COPY packages/notify/package.json packages/notify/
 COPY packages/payments/package.json packages/payments/
 COPY packages/queue/package.json packages/queue/

README.md

@@ -80,6 +80,26 @@ Free pages and feeds carry one [CrawlProof](https://crawlproof.com) ad and a tra
 
 Training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, meta-externalagent…) get a 402 with an x402 offer and buy a pass at `/crawl`: $1 a day for everything, and the more a buyer has paid here the less a day costs (`CRAWL_LOYALTY`, default 20% off after $10, 40% after $50, 60% after $100; every sale is a row in `crawl_sales`). A pass may switch ads or tracking off for its own requests with `?disable=ads,tracking`. People, search engines and retrieval crawlers pass through untouched.
 
+## Knowledge Influencers
+
+Every collection here is also a **niche** someone can operate. A Knowledge
+Influencer is a person who knows how an industry actually works and supervises
+the agents building software, data and promotion for it — no code required. They
+start at **20%** of what the niche makes and climb to **80%** as verified
+contribution accumulates.
+
+`/opportunities` lists the niches looking for one. `/<niche>` is the niche's
+public page (plus `skill.md` and `manifest.json` for agents), `/@<handle>` is an
+operator's profile, `/dashboard/niches` is their own view, and
+`/admin/knowledge` is where claims and contributions are verified.
+
+Score comes only from contributions somebody verified, and volume does not buy
+it: repeated submissions of a type pay less each time, anything claiming a
+customer or a payment needs an outside reference, and a duplicate books once.
+The ladder lives in `contribution_tiers`, so a deployment can tune it. See
+[docs/knowledge-influencers.md](docs/knowledge-influencers.md) and
+[docs/revenue-share.md](docs/revenue-share.md).
+
 ## Stack
 
 Bun, Hono (server-rendered JSX), Postgres via Bun's native driver, BullMQ on Redis, Biome. `bun apps/worker/src/enrich-cli.js [n]` runs enrichment from a terminal. Shared Profullstack modules: `@profullstack/x402-gateway`, `@profullstack/emailer`, `@profullstack/coinpay`, `@profullstack/referrals`, `@profullstack/api-key-manager`, `@profullstack/autoblog` (signed webhooks), `@profullstack/favicon-generator`.

apps/web/package.json

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
     "@nichedb/core": "workspace:*",
     "@nichedb/db": "workspace:*",
     "@nichedb/enrichers": "workspace:*",
+    "@nichedb/knowledge": "workspace:*",
     "@nichedb/notify": "workspace:*",
     "@nichedb/payments": "workspace:*",
     "@nichedb/queue": "workspace:*",

apps/web/public/styles.css

@@ -608,3 +608,32 @@ tr.dim td {
   border: 0;
   border-radius: 8px;
 }
+
+/* the knowledge influencer ladder, and the evidence an admin reads */
+.tiers tr.here td {
+  font-weight: 600;
+}
+.dimensions {
+  list-style: none;
+  padding: 0;
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(14rem, 1fr));
+  gap: 0.25rem 1rem;
+}
+.dimensions .dim-name {
+  color: var(--muted);
+  text-transform: capitalize;
+}
+.cta-block {
+  border: 1px solid var(--line);
+  border-radius: 10px;
+  padding: 1rem 1.25rem;
+}
+/* Submitted and crawled text. It wraps and it never becomes markup. */
+td.evidence {
+  font-family: var(--mono, ui-monospace, monospace);
+  font-size: 0.75rem;
+  color: var(--muted);
+  max-width: 22rem;
+  overflow-wrap: anywhere;
+}

apps/web/src/app.js

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { gateway, gatewayFor } from './lib/pricing.js';
 import { Denied } from './lib/service.js';
 import { registerApi } from './routes/api.js';
 import { registerAuth } from './routes/auth.js';
+import { registerKnowledge } from './routes/knowledge.js';
 import { registerManage } from './routes/manage.js';
 import { registerMcp } from './routes/mcp.js';
 import { registerPages } from './routes/pages.js';
@@ -97,6 +98,13 @@ registerManage(app);
 registerApi(app);
 registerMcp(app);
 
+/**
+ * Last, because a niche's page is served from the site root: every other
+ * route is registered before `/:slug` can be asked. A niche may not take a
+ * slug the site already uses, so the two can never compete for a name.
+ */
+registerKnowledge(app);
+
 app.notFound(async (c) => {
   if (wantsJson(c)) return c.json({ error: 'not found' }, 404);
   return c.html(await render(<NotFound user={c.get('user')} />), 404);

apps/web/src/lib/pricing.js

@@ -119,6 +119,11 @@ export function gatewayOptions(priceCents) {
       // recruiting page would be an odd way to run a marketplace.
       '/sell',
       '/sell/',
+      // Same reasoning on the other side of the marketplace: the page that
+      // tells someone they can be paid for what they know is not the page to
+      // charge them to read.
+      '/opportunities',
+      '/opportunities/',
     ],
     onSale: async (sale) => {
       console.log('[x402] sold a pass', {