What the work actually involves

Projects in this pool fall into three rough shapes. The first is authoring: you take an operating problem you personally ran — a process redesign, a vendor renegotiation, a capacity forecast, a churn intervention — and write it up with the real constraint, the real numbers, and the sequence of decisions, then write the reference answer a model's attempt gets scored against. The second is grading: you read model-written operational analysis and judge whether the process change survives contact with the people who execute it, whether the forecast is grounded in something other than a tidy growth rate, and whether the proposed metric actually moves with the outcome it claims to track. The third is failure-flagging: identifying the recommendation that reads well on a slide and stalls in week two because of headcount, system limits, vendor terms, or an approval chain nobody modelled.

What the screen is looking for

The AI interview is short — roughly 20 minutes — and it is built to surface whether you have run something rather than read about it. Expect follow-ups that push on specifics: the size of the team, the system of record, what the number was before and after, who signed off. Generic frameworks invite harder probing; concrete operating detail ends it. The stated bar is professional experience running or analyzing a business function, clear written reasoning, and tolerance for ambiguous instructions — including the willingness to say an instruction is unclear rather than guessing silently.

The pool is deliberately broad: sales and business development, customer success, strategy and process improvement, supply chain and procurement, project and people management, HR and administration, marketing, market research, and support operations all sit inside it. Depth in one function is worth more here than familiarity with several.

Logistics and honest expectations

  • Fully remote and asynchronous; project listings name their own rate, hours, and client.
  • Comparable business operations projects have posted at $90–120/hr, set per project by scope and depth. That is an observed range, not a guarantee, and this listing itself pays nothing.
  • This standing listing does not accept or reject anyone. There is no decision to wait for — you are contacted when a project needs your function, which may be within a week or several months.
  • Typical project engagements are part-time and bursty, often a handful of hours across a week with short notice at the start.
  • Completing the domain expert interview and joining every network you qualify for both raise your match odds; one signup covers all of them.