What the work involves

Data collection quests are built around a shooting brief: a task issuer needs footage of a particular kind — a hand performing a household action, an object rotated through fixed angles, a person walking through a doorway, a screen being interacted with — captured under stated constraints. You read the brief, film the clips on your own phone, check them against the acceptance criteria, and upload. A typical batch is dozens of short clips rather than one long recording, and most of the effort goes into setup: framing, lighting, background, and making sure the required element is unambiguously visible for the full duration.

Briefs change between batches and are often more specific than they first appear — resolution and frame rate floors, orientation, minimum and maximum clip length, no cuts, no faces (or explicitly faces, with consent), no reflective surfaces, no background audio of other people. Rejections usually come from small compliance misses rather than bad filming: a clip that runs 4.2 seconds when the floor is 5, autofocus hunting mid-take, a brand logo in frame. Collectors who reread the spec before each session tend to have far higher acceptance rates than those who film first and check later.

What the platform screens for

micro1's screening is AI-led and conversational. Expect it to confirm your device and its actual capabilities, your geography (many briefs are location- or environment-specific), your realistic weekly availability, and whether you understand consent and privacy obligations when other people or private property appear in frame. It will also probe judgment: what you do when a brief is ambiguous, when you can't obtain the required environment, and when you notice a clip is borderline. Answers that show you would flag rather than guess score better than answers that show speed.

Logistics

  • Fully remote, asynchronous, no fixed shifts; batches are claimed and completed against a deadline.
  • You supply your own smartphone, storage and upload bandwidth. Files are large; unreliable uploads are a real failure mode.
  • Pay is observed in the $8–17/hr range and is not guaranteed — many batches are priced per accepted clip, so effective hourly rate tracks your acceptance rate closely.
  • Volume is irregular. Treat this as supplementary rather than primary income.