Have us run your first auction for free.

The first ten auction houses anchor the platform. Setup fee waived. Subscription half-price for six months. First auction on us. 30-day money-back guarantee. Direct line to the founder.

Claim a charter slot See standard pricing

The exchange

What you get · what we ask.

What you get

· $0 setup (normally $499)
· $49/mo for 6 months, then $99
· First auction free
· 5 hours of founder-led onboarding
· Direct text/Slack line to the founder
· Quarterly roadmap input
· Lifetime grandfather at $49/mo subscription
· Founding Customer badge in your admin shell

What we ask

· Run at least one real auction
· Six weeks of real activity
· Tell us what's working, what's not
· Quarterly 30-min roadmap call
· Permission to mention you as a customer (only if you love it)
· Optional: logo on hammerwerks.com

The guarantee

30-day money-back.
If you don't think Hammerwerks saved you time after your first auction closes, we refund every dollar.
We help you export your catalog, bidder list, and audit log as CSV + JSON.
No exit interview, no hard feelings.

The math

Standard vs. charter.

Year-one savings on top of the standard plan.

Line item	Standard	Charter	Year-1 savings
One-time setup	$499	$0	$499
Monthly subscription	$99 / mo	$49 / mo · 6 mo · then $99	$300
First auction	$49	Free	$49
Onboarding	Self-serve	5 hrs founder-led	priceless
Support tier	Email	Direct line to founder	for the duration
Pricing protection	Subject to change	Lifetime grandfather at $49/mo	up to $600 / yr

How it goes

From handshake to first hammer.

Week 0 — 15-minute discovery call. We confirm fit. You're a working auction house running 25+ sales/year on HiBid, Proxibid, NextLot, BidWrangler, or your own platform. You get a Houghton-style demo on your own data if you want one.

II.

Week 1 — Branding + payment setup. 90-minute working session. Your subdomain, your logo, your colors, your email sender. Stripe Connect for seller payouts. Your bidder import (CSV or HiBid URL).

III.

Week 2 — Dry run on your next real auction. Catalog a sample lot on a phone call together. Watch the AI draft. Approve. Publish to your branded catalog page. See the bidder-side flow.

IV.

Week 3+ — Your first live auction. Founder is on standby through the close-out + first settlement run. After: a 20-minute debrief on what worked and what didn't.

Quarterly — Roadmap call. 30 minutes. What's working, what's missing, what you'd build if you were us. You shape what ships next.

Who this is for

Charter fit, honestly.

We're not for everyone. The charter program is built for a specific shape.

A good fit if

· You run 25+ auctions per year
· Cataloging is your real bottleneck
· You take credit cards (or want to)
· You're already comfortable online (HiBid / Proxibid / own platform)
· You're willing to give us feedback monthly

Probably not a fit if

· You run 1-3 auctions a year
· Live in-person calling is your only mode
· You need a native iOS/Android bidder app on day one
· You don't want to give feedback
· You only sell on Facebook

Ready when you are.

15-minute call. Pick any slot. No deck, no demo on rails — just an honest conversation about whether this is a fit.

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