# FourWay.io

> FourWay gives digital traffic the right of way. Like a four-way stop, every request, job or message gets one of four answers: Go (proceed now), Yield (wait briefly, something else goes first), Park (hold with a reason and an expiry) or Stop (rejected by policy). FourWay is built by TheWORKCompany LLC in Westwood, Massachusetts, USA. Contact: hello@fourway.io.

What is available today (early access), and what is planned, stated plainly:

- Web lane (available, early access): a free website check, website health monitoring with evidence-backed alerts, a fair virtual waiting room for traffic spikes, bot pause during a rush, and a maintenance or parked page that stays up when the site is down.
- Cron lane (planned): scheduled HTTP jobs paced to each system's limit, with run keys so a job runs once, and calm retries.
- Email lane (planned): sending through your own provider (Amazon SES or Resend to start) within quota and inside each recipient's waking hours, with honest status and no guessed open rates.
- AI lane (planned): AI jobs routed by deadline and budget to models you approve, with your own keys, and output checked against a schema.

Nothing planned is sold before it works. Prices are early-access hypotheses: Discover (free, commercial use allowed), Health ($19 per month), Agency ($99 per month).

## Web

- [Web overview](https://fourway.io/web): everything in the Web lane on one page.
- [Free website check](https://fourway.io/web/check): status, response time, redirects and certificate for any public site, in seconds.
- [Virtual waiting room](https://fourway.io/web/waiting-room): one script tag; extra visitors wait in a fair line in arrival order; fails open if FourWay is unreachable.
- [Set up the waiting room](https://fourway.io/web/waiting-room/setup): three steps.
- [Parked page](https://fourway.io/web/parked): a free, cached page anyone can send traffic to with ?fw_url=<address>; other query variables are passed on when visitors are forwarded, and a form sent while a site is paused is kept in the visitor's browser and resent. It checks the destination from the visitor's browser and forwards when it answers well; otherwise visitors wait calmly and it checks again.
- [Maintenance page builder](https://fourway.io/web/maintenance-page): a branded page hosted off your server.
- [Website health monitoring](https://fourway.io/web/website-health): scheduled checks, incident rules and alerts with evidence.
- [Downtime cost calculator](https://fourway.io/web/downtime-cost)

## Planned lanes

- [Cron](https://fourway.io/cron): scheduled jobs that run once, on time, and never stampede your systems.
- [Email](https://fourway.io/email): email within your provider's limits, at the right hour, with honest status.
- [AI](https://fourway.io/ai): AI work that respects your budget, deadlines and provider limits.

## Reference

- [How FourWay decides](https://fourway.io/how-it-works)
- [Platform: four lanes, one policy](https://fourway.io/platform)
- [Pricing](https://fourway.io/pricing)
- [Docs](https://fourway.io/docs) and [waiting room docs](https://fourway.io/docs/waiting-room)
- [FAQ](https://fourway.io/faq)
- [Security](https://fourway.io/security) and [privacy](https://fourway.io/privacy)
- [Changelog](https://fourway.io/changelog)