What the work actually involves

You are not answering live calls. You are judging whether a model's handling of a simulated call would have been defensible in your comm center. A typical task set might give you a transcript of an AI-generated caller interaction — a domestic disturbance with an ambiguous weapons mention, a caller who can't give a location, a multi-vehicle collision with conflicting reports — and ask you to score the intake sequence, flag missed questions, and write out what a competent dispatcher would have asked and in what order. Other tasks run the other direction: you author scenarios, including the edge cases that break scripts (third-party callers, open lines, misrouted cell towers, callers who go silent), and specify the expected protocol response so the model can be tested against it.

A large share of the work is annotation and written rationale. Reviewers repeatedly find that the hard part isn't spotting the error — it's explaining, in a sentence a non-dispatcher reviewer can audit, why priority assignment or unit recommendation was wrong and what standard it violated. Expect to cite protocol logic (APCO/NENA guidecards, agency-equivalent SOPs) rather than gut feel.

What the platform screens for

micro1's screen is AI-led and heavy on follow-up. It probes whether your dispatch experience is recent and hands-on: call volumes, console setup, which CAD you sat in front of, how your center assigned priority levels, whether you were call-taking, radio, or both. Vague seniority claims get unwound quickly. It also tests evaluation judgment — given a flawed transcript, can you separate a genuine protocol failure from a stylistic difference between agencies? Written clarity is assessed directly from your typed answers, not claimed.

Logistics

  • Fully remote, contractor engagement, project-based with variable volume
  • Largely asynchronous — task batches with deadlines rather than shift coverage, though some projects run live calibration sessions
  • Observed pay band $30–65/hr, varying by project and depth of review required; not guaranteed
  • Reliable broadband and a quiet environment for any audio review or verbal exercises