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Work for people who have done the work.

Labs pays chartered accountants, CFA charterholders and former analysts to author, work and review the tasks that teach and test financial AI. Remote, by the hour, at practitioner rates, under conflict rules that protect you as much as the buyer.

01The work

Three kinds of assignment. Each one is the job, not a description of it.

An AI model learns finance the way an analyst does: from worked examples, judged by someone who knows. You are the someone who knows. Every assignment is scoped, timed and paid in advance of your accepting it.

a / Author

Write the task.

From a sealed set of filings and data stamped to a date, write the question an analyst would actually be asked, the answer with its working, the sources it stands on, and the tolerance the answer deserves. You set what counts as right.

unit
one task, with rubric
typical
2–6 hours
needs
the domain, and the habit of showing your working
b / Work

Do the task, recorded.

Work an authored task inside Quantify Terminal and Excel while the session is captured: the screen, every action, and the datapoint each number came from. The recording of how you got there is the product.

unit
one episode
typical
1–4 hours, in a provisioned environment
needs
fluency in Excel; a quiet block of time
c / Review

Check another expert's task, blind.

Work the task without seeing the author's answer, then compare. Where you disagree, both positions are recorded with reasons, and a third expert decides or the task is withdrawn. Nothing is averaged away.

unit
one review
typical
1–3 hours
needs
seniority, and the willingness to say "this is wrong"
02Who we look for

Credentialed, practised, and independent of the names you work on.

India alone has 452,825 chartered accountants (ICAI, April 2026). Labs is not looking for many of them. It is looking for the ones who have built models for a living, write clearly, and can be screened clean of the issuers they author.

credential

CA, CFA charterholder, or a track record that stands in for either.

Chartered accountants in or formerly in practice; CFA charterholders; former sell-side or buy-side analysts, FP&A and modelling specialists with three or more years of building and defending numbers. Say which, and for how long.

craft

You build in Excel, and you cite.

The tasks are the work: spreading a filing, updating an estimate model, tying figures across sources, finding what broke a thesis. You should be fast in Excel and in the habit of writing down where every number came from.

independence

Not currently covering, holding or advising on the issuers you author.

Screening before engagement and again per assignment; a cooling-off period from anything you covered; a signed attestation on every task that you brought no documents of your own. These rules protect the buyer from leakage and you from any question of it.

time

Blocks of four hours or more, on your own schedule.

Recorded sessions cannot be done in fragments. Authoring and review can. Most experts work a few assignments a month alongside other commitments; some work more. Both are fine.

03Terms

What you are paid, what you sign, and what carries your name.

These are the standing terms. The assignment states the specifics before you accept it, and nothing in an assignment can be less than what is written here.

  • Pay

    Hourly, at practitioner rates, stated per assignment before you accept.

    Rates depend on the assignment type, the seniority it needs and the market you are in, and are written into the assignment. Hours are paid as recorded, including review time. Payment monthly, in your currency.

  • Contract

    Independent contractor; work product assigned to Labs.

    You are engaged as a contractor, not an employee. Tasks, rubrics, answers and recordings you produce are assigned to Labs under the agreement, which is how they can be licensed to buyers with clean title.

  • Credit

    A stable identifier on every record. Your name only if you want it.

    Buyers see that a named, credentialed, screened expert authored and another reviewed each task. They see your name only if you choose to be credited; otherwise an identifier that is yours and no one else's.

  • Environment

    Provisioned, sealed, and yours alone during a session.

    Recorded sessions run in an environment Labs provides, with the documents the task permits and no personal accounts. Nothing you bring enters it, and nothing in a recording identifies anyone but you.

04Apply

One email. Five things in it.

There is no portal. Write to data@labs.quantifyterminal.com with the subject "Expert", and include the five things below. Replies to everyone, usually within a week; a short paid trial task for those we take forward.

  1. Your credential and its year — CA (membership number optional), CFA charter, or the roles that stand in for either.
  2. Your experience — sectors covered, the kinds of models you have built, years of practice.
  3. Your current position — employer or practice, and whether you currently cover, hold or advise on listed issuers. This decides screening, not eligibility.
  4. Your availability — hours a month, and whether you can do recorded sessions of four hours or more.
  5. Somewhere to read about you — a CV, a LinkedIn profile, or a page.
Labs does not ask for, and will not accept, any document from a current or former employer or client as part of an application or an assignment. If a sample of your work is useful, it will be a task we set.

The models will learn finance from someone. It should be someone who knows it.