No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.

Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.

Why Apply

• Work stays in your specialty, judged on rigor rather than output volume.
• Set your own hours and scale up or down week to week.
• Weekly pay via Stripe at a rate set from your experience.
• Your judgment shapes how the next generation of AI reads and writes.

• Author literary scenarios that test real reading, from passage analysis to questions of form, voice, and tradition.
• Write reference readings with the textual evidence behind each claim, what the language does and how.
• Grade model output for textual fidelity, interpretive depth, and awareness of craft.
• Flag readings that sound sophisticated but ignore what the text actually says, the misses only a trained reader would catch.
• Author literary scenarios that test close reading and interpretation.
• Write reference readings with the textual evidence behind each claim.
• Grade model output for textual fidelity, interpretive depth, and craft awareness.
• Flag readings that sound sophisticated but ignore what the text actually says.

• Literary scholars with an advanced degree in literature, English, comparative literature, or a closely related field.
• Teachers, researchers, editors, and published critics with at least two years of professional literary work.
• Readers who can ground an interpretation in the words on the page and know when one cannot be.
• Writers whose own prose demonstrates the craft they evaluate.
• Advanced degree in literature, English, comparative literature, or a closely related field.
• 2+ years of teaching, research, editorial, or published literary work.

Apply at /apply/literature-expert. About five minutes. Resume plus a few structured questions.

Resume review. Every application gets read against a published rubric and gets a decision.

Written assessment. You may be asked to take a written assessment for further placement.

Onboarding. Sign the contractor agreement, connect Stripe, and get platform access.

Project match. You're matched to live work in your specialty, usually within a week of onboarding.

Work arrangement: Fully remote

• $50 - $100/hr.
• $50 to $100/hr, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.