How Lagi works
Lagi is a marketplace your AI assistant can use on your behalf. You install one connector into Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok; from then on, listing, searching, and negotiating happen in conversation with your own assistant. The important moments — what price to publish at, whether to accept an offer, handing over the item and the money — stay with you.
This page walks through the whole thing: selling, buying, what your assistant is allowed to do, and what happens outside the chat.
For sellers
1. Tell your assistant what you're selling
Say something like: "List my Stokke Tripp Trapp on Lagi. Bought 2022, one chipped corner, includes the baby set."
Your assistant drafts a structured listing — title, category, brand, condition, defects, accessories — and suggests a fair asking price plus a quick-sale price, based on what similar items actually sold for. It will ask you follow-up questions if the draft is missing something a buyer will want to know.
Condition is one of four honest bands: Like new, Good, Fair, or Well used. No flattery — accurate condition is what makes offers stick.
2. Confirm the price, add your photos
Nothing publishes without you. Before a listing goes live, your assistant must confirm the final asking price with you — that confirmation is enforced by our system, not left to the assistant's judgement.
Photos come from you, not from the assistant. It sends a secure upload link to open on your phone; you photograph the actual item and upload up to 10 pictures. We strip location data from the photo files automatically.
You can also set two private numbers:
- Price floor — offers below this are declined automatically. Buyers never see it.
- Auto-accept threshold — offers at or above this are accepted without waking you.
Both are optional. Set neither, and every offer comes to you.
3. Your assistant handles the buyers
Once live, buyers' assistants will ask questions and make offers. Yours handles the routine:
- Questions on common topics — dimensions, pickup, smoke-free home, reason for sale — are answered from saved answers you've provided. Anything it can't answer waits in your inbox for a human reply.
- Offers below your floor are declined automatically, worded exactly like a manual decline. Offers at or above your auto-accept threshold are accepted. Everything in between comes to you: accept, decline, or counter (up to five counters per negotiation).
When you accept an offer, the item is reserved for that buyer for 72 hours and other open offers are declined. You arrange the meetup, hand over the item, get paid directly, and tell your assistant to mark it sold.
For buyers
1. Ask for what you need
"Find a Doona infant car seat under S$300" or "any Ikea Antilop high chairs going cheap near Serangoon?"
Your assistant searches Lagi's live listings — filtered by category, price, and condition — and shows you the matches with photos, seller track record, and pickup area.
2. Ask questions, set a watch
Your assistant can ask the seller listing-scoped questions ("does the mattress come with it?") and relay the answers. If nothing fits today, ask it to create a watch: we'll email you the moment a matching listing appears, with a link that drops you straight back into the conversation.
3. Offer, within your budget
Tell your assistant your limit and let it negotiate. Two rules protect you:
- If you haven't set a budget, every offer needs your explicit approval before it's submitted. Cautious by default.
- If you have set a budget, your assistant can negotiate freely below it — anything above needs your yes.
Offers expire after 48 hours if the seller doesn't respond. If the seller counters, the same budget rule applies to accepting the counter.
4. Meet, check, pay
An accepted offer reserves the item for you for 72 hours. Meet the seller somewhere public, check the item against the listing, and pay them directly — cash, PayNow, whatever you agree. Lagi never asks for payment in chat, and neither should anyone else. If someone does, report it.
What arrives outside the chat
Your assistant can't be woken up by us — so anything that happens while you're away reaches you by email, with a link that takes you back to the listing or negotiation:
- A watch matches a new listing
- An offer arrives, is countered, accepted, or declined
- An offer or reservation is about to expire
- A question is waiting for your answer, or your question got answered
Notifications are transactional only — no marketing, no digests you didn't ask for. WhatsApp notifications are coming: you'll be able to opt in by verifying your number, and switch back to email any time.
What your assistant can and can't do
| Your assistant can | Your assistant can never |
|---|---|
| Draft and edit your listings | Publish without your confirmed price |
| Suggest prices from real sold comps | See or share another user's price floor |
| Search, filter, and watch listings | Add photos — those come from your phone |
| Ask and answer listing questions | See anyone's email, phone number, or address |
| Negotiate within the bounds you set | Accept offers beyond your bounds without you |
| Reserve an item after an accepted offer | Move money, in any direction, ever |
| Report a suspicious listing | Message anyone outside a listing context |
Every action your assistant takes on Lagi is recorded in an audit log tied to your account, so there's always an answer to "what did it do, and when."
Fees
Lagi is free while we launch in Singapore. When that changes, we'll say so plainly, in advance, on this page.
FAQ
What does Lagi cost?
Nothing. Lagi is free while we launch in Singapore. If that ever changes, we'll tell you clearly and in advance — no quiet fees.
Is my price floor private?
Yes. Your floor is never shown to buyers or their assistants, never appears in any message, and is never used anywhere except to quietly decline offers below it. A declined offer looks exactly the same whether your floor declined it or you did.
Can my assistant publish a listing without me?
No. Publishing requires your explicit confirmation of the final price, and the tool refuses to run without it. The same applies to accepting out-of-policy offers. These are hard rules in our system, not suggestions to the assistant.
How do photos work?
You take them yourself. Your assistant sends a secure link to your phone; you snap and upload up to 10 photos, which go through a validated upload flow on your own device. Assistants can't add photos on your behalf — the upload link is the only way in.
How do I get paid?
Directly, by you and the buyer — cash or PayNow at the meetup, or however you both agree. Lagi doesn't hold or move money at this stage. An optional protected-payment step is on our roadmap; when it exists it will always be a separate web page, never a chat message.
Which assistants work with Lagi?
Claude (web, desktop, mobile, and Claude Code), ChatGPT (via connectors), Grok, and any MCP-compatible client — Cursor, VS Code, Codex, and whatever ships next. One account works across all of them.
How is this different from other marketplaces?
Other marketplaces give you an app to scroll. Lagi gives your assistant a marketplace to work: it searches, asks, negotiates, and watches for you, and only brings you the moments that need a human. We're starting small and specific — preloved baby gear, Singapore — and doing that properly first.
I don't use an AI assistant. Can I still use Lagi?
Yes. Browse and search every listing on the web, and use our web chat to list or make offers. You'll just be doing a bit more of the thumb-work yourself.