The work
You will spend most of your time producing and grading presentation deliverables of the kind you already build for a deal team. Typical tasks: draft a board approval deck for a mid-market bolt-on given a fact pattern; screen a target list into a one-page ranked exhibit; build a synergy bridge that ties cost and revenue assumptions to a run-rate number; write a deal update memo for an executive committee mid-diligence; assemble a 100-day integration plan; refresh a pipeline review. On the evaluation side, you receive model-generated versions of the same artefacts and mark them — what is factually incoherent, what is structurally wrong for the audience, what a CFO would strike before it reached the board — then rewrite to a reference standard.
What the screen is looking for
Ethos runs an AI voice screen before any paid work. It is testing whether you have personally owned live transaction materials, not whether you can describe M&A in the abstract. Expect follow-ups that push on specifics: which committee, what the approval threshold was, what you had to change after the first read-through, how you treated a synergy number you did not believe. Slide craft matters as much as deal knowledge — reviewers who can articulate why an exhibit fails (action title carrying no argument, footnote that contradicts the chart, three messages on one slide) score better than reviewers who only say a deck "looks unpolished."
Logistics
- Fully remote, asynchronous, no fixed hours or standing calls.
- 5–20 hours per week, with more available to contributors who calibrate well; volume moves with project batches rather than arriving evenly.
- Rate observed at $100/hour for this cohort; not guaranteed, and task-level rates vary by project.
- Work is done in the platform's tooling, but you should be able to reason natively in PowerPoint conventions.
- Everything is confidential by contract. You will work from synthetic or sanitised fact patterns, never your employer's data.