AI-driven milestone escrow for cross-border payments


Novescrow is a global fintech platform that simplifies cross-border payments between freelancers and companies through a mobile-first escrow system. Powered by AI, it automates contract creation, milestone tracking, approval routing, and payout releases in a secure and transparent environment. MeetLabs delivered an end-to-end solution: strategic consulting, brand identity, mobile UI/UX, AI-driven prototyping, and scalable architecture, building the foundation for a global payment ecosystem based on automation, trust, and speed.
Freelancers and companies operating internationally face trust gaps, fragmented communication, and delayed payments. Manual contracts, unclear milestones, and slow approvals often lead to disputes and inefficiencies. Novescrow needed a global product capable of automating contracts and milestone execution using AI, while maintaining compliance, simplicity, and reliability across markets and currencies.
Strategic Consulting
Objective: Define a mobile-first escrow for freelancers, clients, and cross-border payments. We mapped contract, milestones, approvals, and payouts; defined roles, permissions, triggers, approval rules, dispute edge-cases, and an MVP scope ready for cross-border execution.
Market Research and Business Strategy
Objective: Analyze international payments and friction in freelance transactions. We studied real cross-border payout flows, escrow alternatives, pricing expectations, and trust barriers, then translated findings into onboarding requirements, milestone rules, and positioning.
Brand Identity & Visual Strategy
Objective: Build a global fintech identity with trust, innovation, and clarity. We built a brand system that signals “safe money”: confident typography, disciplined layout, global-ready palette, and visual rules for product, website, and investor materials.
UI/UX Design
Objective: Design low-friction mobile flows for contracts, approvals, and payouts. We designed role-based journeys (business and freelancer): drafting, milestones, approval handoffs, and payout visibility, optimized for fast decisions, clear accountability, and repeatable execution.
AI-Powered Automation and Prototyping
Objective: Prototype AI flows for contracts, milestones, and payout automation. We prototyped AI-assisted drafting, scope summaries, milestone risk alerts, and reminders, validating how automation reduces disputes and speeds approvals.
Development of Responsive Website and Mobile App
Objective: Build a responsive website and a mobile app for global payments. We delivered a trust-led acquisition website and a modular milestone-escrow mobile app with approvals, notifications, and foundations ready for global payment rail integrations.
Database Architecture & Cloud Deployment
Objective: Design scalable cloud systems for contracts, milestones, and payouts. We modeled escrow as event-based states, ensured audit-ready records, and prepared multi-region scalability for stable performance under cross-border volume growth.
Backend Development & Integration Systems
Objective: Implement backend for authentication, automation, and payout orchestration. We built secure APIs for role-based access, milestone state transitions, approval routing, and payout triggers, leaving integration hooks for compliance and settlement rails.
Strategic Presentations Objective: Communicate the model and execution to stakeholders and investors. We delivered research reports, a product overview, whitepaper, and one-pager covering strategy, design, and development guidelines; and later, key documents for investors and partners.
MeetLabs built Novescrow as a global AI-powered escrow solution connecting freelancers, businesses, and cross-border projects. The platform unifies agreement automation, milestone tracking, and payout execution in a single mobile experience. Designed for clarity, auditability, and speed, Novescrow combines AI automation with secure infrastructure, ready to scale in global financial ecosystems.






1. Consulting and Strategic Presentations
We partnered with Novescrow to turn an early escrow concept into an investor-ready narrative, grounded in cross-border freelance payment research, user insights (clients and freelancers), and competitive benchmarking. Key deliverables included an investor-focused whitepaper and a one-page investor summary to communicate the model, trust drivers, and growth path clearly.
2. Branding
Novescrow is a global, milestone-based escrow fintech built to make cross-border payouts predictable. We designed an identity that signals “money moves safely”: a sharp escrow symbol, disciplined grid, confident geometric type, and a calm palette. The system scales across product UI, website, and investor materials, minimal, premium, and unmistakably trustworthy.
3. Website Responsive
This responsive website introduces Novescrow to freelancers, clients, and partners with a story-first structure: what escrow solves, how milestones work, how approvals flow, and when payouts release. Clear hierarchy, modular sections, and trust cues reduce confusion, build credibility fast, and explain the workflow in minutes, on any device.
4. Mobile App
The app turns escrow into an operational flow: create contracts, define milestones, route approvals, track status, and release payouts with full visibility. AI supports the process by generating contract drafts, summarizing scope, suggesting milestone templates, and flagging risk signals. Role-based screens and clear states (pending, approved, disputed) keep execution fast, safe, and repeatable.


Novescrow redefined escrow as a smart global payment system powered by AI. By merging milestone-based automation with secure mobile execution, it enhanced trust, reduced transaction friction, and established a scalable foundation for expansion into multiple markets, currencies, and business verticals.




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The challenge was to make international freelance and B2B payments predictable and secure in a fragmented market. MeetLabs transformed that need into a global fintech platform, an AI-driven escrow system that empowers freelancers and companies to transact confidently across borders. Today, Novescrow is positioned to scale through new integrations, regulatory frameworks, and enterprise partnerships.