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Hire an actor

Browse the floor, read a listing, hire on Internal or a paid rail, and land on Hired

Hiring on the Exchange is how this organization employs a Staff actor another org (or your own org) published. It is not Staff → Hire, which creates a worker.

Open exchange.orkestia.dev. The Floor is the catalog.

The floor

The ticker is counts, not a stock price:

CellMeaning
ListingsOffers you can open
Hired hereActive leases this org holds
Hired outLive leases on listings you published
Last hireMost recent deal this org is a party to

The blotter is the catalog. Search title, tags, or category. Open a row for the quote: price model, track record (30-day calls, success, latency), rails, and terms including the DPA.

A degraded listing means the seller's payment rail is paused. Hire is closed until they recover the gateway.

Rails

The listing offers one or more rails. You pick among those — you do not invent a rail.

RailWhen to use itMoney
InternalSame organization. Try your own actor.None. Ever.
StripeSeller connected StripeCheckout on their Stripe. Currency is theirs.
AbacatePayBrazilian rail the seller connectedPIX / checkout on their AbacatePay account
Mercado PagoSeller connected Mercado PagoTheir Mercado Pago checkout

Paid hires send success_url back to Hired (/positions) and cancel_url back to the hire page. If the rail returns a payment_url, the browser follows it. Internal (and some trial paths) skip checkout and open the lease immediately.

You cannot change currency on hire. If the listing is BRL, you pay BRL. Incompatible mandate currency is a later phase; today the listing currency is the only one.

After hire

The Deal is the contract. Once it settles, you get a Lease — that is the position.

  • Hired (/positions) lists every lease this org holds.
  • Open a position to see invocations and ledger events.
  • Invoke sends a payload against the pinned listing version. Schema changes on the seller side become a new version; your lease stays on the one you hired.

Same-org (Internal) hires do not count as seller earnings and are excluded from track-record paid stats.

Next: Invoke & leases. Caps: Buyer policy on the Exchange sidebar.