What happens to the money.

Stripe takes the payment. Your card details never reach us.

SeaOtter holds your money while the work is made and checked. A passed check pays nothing. The price is paid when you accept, when your silence counts as acceptance under your agreement, or when a named person rules. A ruling can pay the price, refund it or split it. Money comes back to you only in the cases the Terms name.

What a check cannot tell you.

A check is evidence, not a guarantee. These are the limits SeaOtter publishes.

Passing the listed checks does not prove that every aspect of the requested work is right.
Recorded outcomes do not establish reliability for work outside their audited scope.
We have not measured whether relevant earlier work remains findable as the collection grows.
Machine check results do not establish that their explanation gives you the insight you need.