What the work involves

This is banking deck craft turned into training data. On a given task you might be handed a prompt and a set of financials and asked to produce a client-ready page — a valuation football field, a sources and uses table, a market-map exhibit — with the same title bar, footnotes, and source lines you'd use for a real committee book. Other tasks run the opposite direction: the model has generated a five-page executive summary or a strategic rationale section, and you grade it on horizontal flow, vertical support, and whether the action titles actually assert something rather than label the page. Rewrites are common — you fix the deck and explain in writing why the original failed, because the explanation is often more valuable to the lab than the fix.

Expect recurring themes: storyline development from a blank page, turning an analyst's data dump into a single-page exec summary, structuring a process update, sanity-checking whether an exhibit's chart type matches the argument it's meant to carry. A significant share of the model's failures are subtle — a deck that looks polished but whose pages don't build on each other, or a title that overstates what the footnoted data supports. Catching that is the job.

What the platform screens for

Ethos runs an AI voice screen. It is looking for people who have actually shipped books under deadline, not people who can describe the MECE principle. Expect probes on where you worked and for how long, what kinds of materials you built, and follow-ups that get specific fast — what goes on page three of a sell-side pitch, how you'd defend an action title, what you'd cut when an MD says the deck is four pages too long. Vague seniority claims and consulting-adjacent framing tend to unravel under the second question. Written samples or a redacted work product may be requested later.

Logistics

  • Fully remote, fully asynchronous; tasks are claimed from a queue
  • 5–20 hours per week, with more available for consistent contributors
  • Expert-level PowerPoint is assumed — you will be producing slides, not just commenting on them
  • Rate observed at $100/hour; project rates on this kind of work move with task type and are not guaranteed
  • All work must use public or synthetic data; nothing from a prior employer's files