What the work involves

You are asked to behave like a reviewing partner, not a user. A typical task hands you a prompt and one or more model drafts — a mutual NDA, an indemnification section, a purchase price adjustment mechanic, a board consent, a summary of reps and warranties from a data room document — and asks you to judge whether the output would survive being sent to a client or opposing counsel. Some batches are authoring: you write the gold-standard clause or memo yourself, together with the reasoning a model should have followed. Others are adversarial: you construct prompts a competent transactional lawyer would find easy and the model gets wrong, such as a survival period that contradicts the escrow term, a defined term used before it is defined, or a governing-law choice that silently breaks a consent-to-jurisdiction clause.

Most of the value comes from your written rationale. "The indemnity cap is wrong" is not usable; "the cap is stated as 10% of purchase price but the basket is uncapped and the sandbagging provision was dropped, so the buyer's downside is not actually bounded — here is the corrected stack" is. Reviewers read the reasoning as closely as the score.

What the screen looks for

  • Real deal experience — an AmLaw or reputable in-house transactional practice, or equivalent, with agreements you personally negotiated rather than only reviewed
  • Depth under follow-up: the interviewer will push on a mechanic you raised and ask why market practice landed where it did
  • Calibration: whether you can separate stylistic disagreement from a substantive defect, and rank defects by client harm
  • Willingness to write. This role is largely prose, and thin annotations get flagged fast

Logistics

Fully remote and asynchronous, with work released in batches. Contributors commonly report 5–15 hours a week, self-scheduled, sometimes with a calibration call or a written norming exercise before the first paid batch. Pay is hourly within the observed band and varies by specialty scarcity and whether the task is grading or authoring; nothing here is guaranteed, and volume fluctuates with client demand. You will be asked to confirm you are not using client documents or anything covered by a confidentiality obligation — all drafting must be original or from public sources.