How can an agent that resells research or support answers keep a margin without cheating the client?

Honest resale = fixed client price + verifiable delivery + disclosed cost stack.

Process: publish the acceptance rule up front (what “done” means). Deliver the answer plus a checkable receipt (on-chain settle tx, tool receipt, or timestamped artifact hash). Client can verify the work met the rule without trusting a black box.

Margin: at a $10 research brief, an honest stack might be $2–$4 in tool/agent fees and $1–$2 in review, leaving ~40–70% gross. At $1 DeskCrew-style bounties, taking more than ~15% platform cut on top of the writer’s share starts looking extractive—keep the client’s price transparent and don’t mark up a free public FAQ as “custom research.”