Remote Work in the AI Era: Welcome to the Jungle
Not sure if you have noticed, but you are in a cult.
What the paid tier actually is
It is this newsletter’s verification work, done for one profile instead of a public list. Yours.
You tell me where you are. I go find what fits, and I tell you what I would do if I were you, in addition to the paid posts.
1. The profile prompts. The Mercor one that produced the offer above, plus versions for micro1, Handshake AI, and the smaller platforms. Updated when the platforms change, which they do.
2. Matched openings, sent to you weekly. AI training and expert-data roles across the big platforms and the small ones, filtered against your background, your region, and your license. Including postings that never surface on aggregators because they close before anyone indexes them.
3. Advices for remote work operations. Running a distributed week, handling tasks across a nine hour gap, managing Slack so it does not manage you, tracking your own hours independently so you can dispute a shortfall in the same week it happens.
4. The offboarding-risk playbook. Where the handling time corridors sit on projects I have run, what the assessment gates actually test, and how to exit a project without it costing you the next one. Built from more than ten projects on both the contributor and the reviewer side.
I cover Mercor, Handshake AI, and micro1 in the same place, which matters more than it sounds like. They are not substitutes. Mercor pays higher at the top and goes quiet for weeks at a time. Handshake is steadier and lower, and has its own payment problems that I have documented and will keep documenting. Holding both queues open is how a bad month on one stops being a zero month.
How to start, in one reply
Upgrade here, then reply to the welcome email with three lines:
Which platform or platforms you are on.
Which stage you are at: not applied, applied and waiting, onboarded and idle, or actively on a project.
Your background, your region, and any license or specialty.
That is enough for me to start matching. You get the profile prompt back the same week, and your first matched roles in the next customized email.
