CraftMarket
A niche marketplace for handmade goods — without a year of backend work.
A full two-sided marketplace — artisan onboarding, story-led listings, AI buyer chat, split payouts and dispute arbitration — composed from AIMicroservices in a couple of weeks.
WHY IT WORKS
CraftMarket is a blueprint for a vertical marketplace. One side is artisans: a guided onboarding wizard turns their Instagram feed into a store, their site into a catalog, and their Notion drafts into story-led product pages. The other side is buyers: an AI guide that answers questions about provenance, materials and shipping in any language, walks them through variations and takes them to checkout inside the conversation.
The hard part of a marketplace is trust and money. CraftMarket bakes both in: every seller gets a living trust score based on response time, return rate and dispute history; every order is ledgered so platform commission, seller payout and sales tax split automatically; every dispute lands in an AI-mediated flow that collects evidence from both sides, proposes a resolution and only escalates when the parties refuse to settle.
Because every block is already a microservice — catalog, chat, billing, forms, identity — the team ships the first pilot in weeks and spends the rest of the runway on the category-specific details: how artisans tell stories, how buyers discover, how the platform fights counterfeits.
ARCHITECTURE · LAYERED BLUEPRINT
How the microservices wire up.
Read top to bottom. Channels are where people arrive, orchestration is how the AI thinks, domain is the startup-specific logic, data & identity keeps the source of truth, and platform is the invisible glue.
Scroll horizontally to see the full architecture.
INVENTORY
Every block in CraftMarket.
Each block is a microservice with a clear role — grouped by layer so you can see what belongs to channels, orchestration, domain, data and platform at a glance.
HOW TO SHIP IT
Quick-start checklist.
- 01 Use SiteCrawler + CreatorStudio to onboard the first 20 artisans from their Instagram feeds.
- 02 Configure CommissionLedger with platform fee, seller split and VAT rules.
- 03 Train the shopping agent on KnowledgeBase entries for materials & care.
- 04 Open buyer traffic; DisputeArbiter and TrustPulse kick in from day one.
WHAT'S NEXT
Compose CraftMarket in a visual workspace.
Log into AIM Engine 2.0, drop the blueprint on a canvas, fork the domain microservices you need, and deploy to your own domain. Everything shown here is already a real component.