The work

Each task starts from a real artifact: a grading plan set, an erosion and sediment control sheet, a title commitment, a topographic map stack, a historic aerial, an assessor sketch. You build the prompt a competent reviewer would face at work and then author the answer key — a plan review comment set with code citations, a survey exception schedule, an earthwork or stockpile quantity with the method shown, a setback determination, an elevation certificate photo check. Expect to write out your reasoning, not just the number, because the answer key is what the model is graded against. A second reviewer holding the same credential in your discipline reviews your task before it ships, and you will do the same for others.

The subject matter spans site, civil and survey practice: civil grading and stormwater design review, roadway plan check, work-zone and traffic control review, utility service drawings, floodplain permits, civil RFI responses, landscape ordinance and tree protection review, earthwork quantity verification, ALTA Table A items, title survey exception review, closing survey setback review, topographic map reading, historic aerial and Sanborn dating, and assessor sketch verification. You will not touch all of it — tasks are routed by what you have actually signed or reviewed.

What the screen looks for

  • A real seat: civil engineer, land development engineer, land surveyor, geospatial or Phase I environmental analyst, currently or recently held.
  • PE in civil engineering, or PLS for survey and mapping work.
  • Three or more years in the seat, US based, working to US standards and state DOT or local land development practice; eight or more is preferred.
  • Evidence you know where reviewers extend faith — which quantity, contour or exception normally goes unchecked — rather than just that you can read a sheet. Agency or DOT submittal review, resubmittal cycles carried to approval, multi-jurisdiction experience, and mentoring EITs or survey crews all read strongly.

Poor fits, stated plainly by the platform: GIS analysts who have never reviewed engineered drawings, drone operators without survey credentials, environmental scientists whose work is sampling rather than site plan review, and CAD technicians without design or review responsibility.

Logistics

Fully remote and asynchronous, contract, paid hourly in the observed $45–60 range depending on experience, with the platform stating a path to a higher rate as the project scales. Hours are self-scheduled; most contributors take a defined batch of tasks rather than a fixed weekly commitment. You will need a desktop setup that handles multi-sheet PDF drawing sets and imagery comfortably — plan review on a laptop trackpad gets painful fast.