What the work involves

You'll work through buy-side deliverables the way you did on the desk, except the audience is a model. Typical tasks: build an investment pitch deck from a prompt and a source packet, write a one-page position review with the exhibit that actually carries the argument, draft a thesis memo with supporting charts, or assemble portfolio review and quarterly LP letter materials. The second half of the work is evaluation — you're handed two or more model-generated versions of the same deck and asked to rank them, then justify the ranking in writing with enough specificity that a model can learn from it. "Slide 4 is weak" is useless; "slide 4 leads with revenue growth when the thesis is margin recovery, and the bridge chart doesn't reconcile to the guidance on slide 6" is the product.

What the platform screens for

Ethos runs an AI voice screen before any task work. It is checking that your seat was real: which strategy, what coverage, who you pitched to, how often ideas got killed and why. Expect follow-ups that go one layer past your first answer — if you say you pitched a short, you'll be asked what the borrow looked like and how you framed the catalyst timeline to the IC. The screen also probes slide craft directly, because the lab cares about presentation quality as a distinct skill from analysis: structure, exhibit choice, what belongs in the appendix, how a deck reads when the PM skips to page 9. Candidates who can only describe analysis in the abstract, without the artifacts they produced, tend not to advance.

Logistics

  • Fully remote and asynchronous; no standing meetings, no fixed hours.
  • Flexible volume between 5 and 20 hours per week, more available if you want it.
  • Observed rate for this listing is $100/hour; bands vary by task type and are set by the platform, not guaranteed.
  • Work is delivered in the lab's tooling, but you should expect to build in PowerPoint at a professional standard — these decks are the ground truth the model is trained against.

The role suits current or recently departed analysts who want project-based income without a non-compete problem, and who are comfortable having their written reasoning read closely.