What the work actually involves

You'll spend most of your time producing and judging documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks of the kind you'd deliver to a capture manager two days before a solicitation deadline. A typical task set might ask you to draft a Section L/M-aligned compliance matrix from a provided RFP excerpt, write a past-performance narrative that ties CPARS-style evidence to stated evaluation factors, build a pricing volume workbook with defensible build-up logic, or rebuild a proposal executive summary that reads like a discriminator statement rather than a company brochure. Other tasks are evaluative: two model-generated outputs land in front of you, and you decide which one a source-selection board would score higher — and write the reasoning in enough detail that a trainer with no proposal background can follow it.

  • Authoring reference-quality artifacts across RFI responses, compliance matrices, capture plans, pricing volumes, and executive summaries
  • Side-by-side comparison and scoring of model outputs against rubrics covering compliance, responsiveness, and evaluator readability
  • Writing failure annotations: not "this is weak" but "this narrative cites relevance without addressing scope, magnitude, and complexity, so it fails the relevancy factor"
  • Occasional formatting-integrity work — page limits, cross-reference accuracy, matrix-to-narrative traceability

What the platform screens for

Ethos runs an AI voice screen before any task access. It is looking for whether you've personally owned proposal artifacts rather than reviewed them at a distance: expect follow-ups about specific solicitation vehicles you've responded to, how you built a compliance matrix from Sections C, L, and M, what you do when the RFP's instructions and evaluation criteria contradict each other, and how you've handled a protest-sensitive or non-compliant submission. Vague seniority claims collapse quickly under these probes. The screen also tests evaluation temperament — whether you can articulate a standard and apply it consistently, instead of defaulting to personal stylistic preference.

Logistics

Fully remote, fully asynchronous, no standing meetings. Work is claimed from a task queue in bursts, so 5–20 hours a week is genuinely flexible and contributors who want more volume can usually get it. Pay is stated as observed at $100/hour and is not guaranteed; rates vary by task type and project phase. You'll need reliable access to word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software, and a quiet setup for the voice screen.