A VE LAB product · Archived brief
Observed 26 October 2026. Archived public answers from this watchlist cut — demand mix, a few intensity and wall reads, lab hiring, and one cross-signal line.
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Demand · Intensity · Walls · Labs · Cross-signal
Demand mix
Hot categories by mentions across verified buyer programmes this cut.
Software / code — 10
Finance & accounting — 7
Legal — 7
Healthcare / medical — 5
Manufacturing — 4
Logistics — 4
Construction — 3
Insurance — 3
Professional and software interiors dominate the public boards; healthcare and physical/industrial are present but thinner. That matches closed operating records and domain-expert seats more than open web corpora.
Bounty / intensity
Referral bands and “up to” rates are signals. Do not collapse them into a rate card.
20% of referral earnings to cap. Work board: Retail Trader $400/task; chemistry / safety / defense experts $65–$75/task plus $250 referral; Stanford Youth Study $110/hr. Social proof on the work board: 2108 hired this month.
AI Evaluation Specialist up to $17/hr; Energy / FP&A up to $80/hr; Software / Philosophy up to $120/hr; PCB Tool Specialist up to $125/hr. US work-auth only. A board-side calculator scenario (~$257K–$513K) is not verified on the Handshake page.
Referral figures $5K–$50K+ on the Mode page. BizBuyData /50k cites $50K+.
Lazarus (Turing): hero payout up to $1M for company operating history; Refer & Earn up to $10k; SOC 2 / de-id / air-gapped pitch. Ooak: band raised to up to $1M (from $300K) — an intensity move on winding-down and closed companies.
Walls still visible
OpenAI’s data partnerships page wants large-scale human-intention data that is not publicly accessible. It explicitly wants no sensitive or personal data. OCR / ASR is offered. The page is dated November 2023; still live; browser-only.
Lazarus pitches Slack, email, tickets, wikis, and decisions under NDA plus de-identification.
Legal, finance, and accounting repeat across Nyne, Mode, BizBuyData, micro1, and Scale industries.
HUMXN resolves to a GoDaddy lander. Grepped is a domain for sale. Drop both from an “active buy” read.
Lab hiring as roadmap
Human Data and data-ops seats, not keynote language. Meta’s “data” search is not a Human Data count.
Human Data ops roles include Data Operations Manager, Human Data; and Product Management, Human Data Platform.
Human Data — Engineer; Human Data Manager. Categories touch construction, energy, legal, and code.
Down from 796 on 24 October. Six Human Data / data-acquisition roles, including a newly seen Data Program Manager, Science.
Meta careers “data” search: 922+ results, but top hits are Data Center infra — not a Human Data count. DeepMind: careers landing only; jobs via Greenhouse; no count this cut.
Cross-signal
Software / code plus legal / finance are thick on the boards; Anthropic, xAI, and OpenAI Human Data and data-ops seats staff the same map.
Caution: Meta “data” ≠ Human Data; the Handshake calculator claim is board-side only; OpenAI’s partnerships page is dated November 2023. HUMXN and Grepped are dead — drop them from the active-buy read.
Lowest-friction monitor remains public boards, Ashby / Greenhouse APIs, and a short written cut. JS shells (Mercor work, SuperAnnotate, Meta) need a real browser, not bot curl.
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This page is the archived public cut for 26 October 2026. Use the investigation page for the questions. Open the gated watchlist for the full answers.
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