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Marketplace ​

The Marketplace turns a whole job into one install. Instead of building an agent, then a workflow, then a guideline, then wiring up a data connection by hand, you pick a solution pack and Pencel materializes all of those pieces at once — configured to work together.

The Marketplace is a persistent front door in the Manage (Hood) area of the sidebar (/solutions).

What a pack is ​

A pack is configuration over the primitives you already have. It is not a new kind of runtime — installing a pack creates ordinary entities you can then edit, run, or delete like any other:

  • one or more agents (the role that does the work)
  • one or more workflows (the job — on-demand and/or scheduled)
  • a guideline or two (the rules the agent scores or writes against)
  • any connections the workflows need (installed for you)
  • per-workflow sources for source-aware connections (e.g. a specific data provider)

Each pack card carries a setup-readiness badge so you can see at a glance whether it is ready to run or needs a connection. The detail panel lists exactly what it will create before you install — nothing is hidden, and credentials are never filled in for you.

Installing ​

  1. Open Solutions and select a pack.
  2. Review the What this installs list and any prerequisites.
  3. Click Install. Pencel creates the entities, installs the connections, and compiles the pack's workflows — grounding each one with a concrete, ready-to-run plan at install time rather than leaving it as loose instructions.
  4. Follow the Finish setup panel. Pencel runs active verify probes against each required connection and shows you exactly what still needs attention (e.g. an OAuth sign-in). Readiness refreshes automatically as you connect.

Install is idempotent: installing the same pack twice won't duplicate anything. If an entity with the same name already exists (for example, you already have an "RFP Scout" agent), the pack reuses it rather than creating a second.

Available packs ​

Pencel ships several packs, with more added over time:

RFP Scout (Government contracting) ​

Scouts federal and state/local (SLED) contract opportunities that fit your business, publishes decision-ready opportunity cards to Pulse, and hands the ones you pick to Tailor to draft a proposal.

  • RFP Scout agent plus on-demand and daily-scheduled search workflows.
  • RFP scoring criteria guideline — NAICS/domain fit, contract value, response runway, set-aside fit, with relevance and deadline invariants enforced in code (not just prompts).
  • Uses Pencel's managed HigherGov and Tavily connectors by default — no API-key paste for the common case. A pre-run source-credential gate checks access before the first search.
  • Opportunity records show up in a dedicated Opportunities scope in Pulse, each with a Write proposal action.

Stock Watch (Markets) ​

A daily brief on the tickers you follow — price moves, news, and analyst consensus — backed by Finnhub, rendered by a code-owned deterministic report for consistent quality.

QuickBooks (Finance) ​

A one-click QuickBooks Online integration (finance MCP) so agents can read your books for reporting and reconciliation workflows.