Get paid to film your team at work for AI

Your crew’s normal workday can earn the business money. Some AI companies pay for phone video of people doing hands-on jobs, filmed from the worker’s point of view, so robots can learn real tasks. You don’t sell anything you already have. Your team films new footage while it works.

Who pays for work footage

Amelia Robotics pays US businesses whose crews work with their hands. It says its “top priorities are trades, construction and auto services”, and it also lists farms and nurseries, event venues, warehouses and manufacturing.

micro1 runs a video program for small and medium businesses in the US, Canada and Latin America. Its examples run from construction, HVAC and auto repair to kitchens, warehouses, landscaping and cleaning. “The best fit is a business where employees do different hands-on tasks throughout the day.”

What it pays

Amelia’s range assumes 12.5 to 50 approved recording hours a week over four weeks. It pays the business once a month, and you decide how much goes to the crew. micro1 pays “based on the amount and quality of approved video data collected” and publishes no rate.

Only approved footage counts. Amelia defines it as “recording time reviewed and accepted against the agreed requirements.”

Who qualifies

• A team doing varied, hands-on work. micro1 says “assembly-line or highly repetitive work is not a fit.”
• Enough people to film. micro1 asks for at least 2 employees who can take part, each recording at least 10 hours a week.
• The right phones. micro1’s recorders use their own iPhone or Android phone with an ultra-wide camera and motion sensors. Amelia’s crews film on a mounted phone with its app.
• The right country. Amelia takes US businesses. micro1 takes the US, Canada and Latin America.

Keep your crew and customers comfortable

Both programs make consent your job. micro1 says the owner must make sure employees agree and that the business has permission to record, and that no one should film sensitive information. Amelia lets you “agree tasks, permitted areas and participants before recording starts.”

If your crew works in customers’ homes or on customers themselves, ask the customer first. Keep faces, addresses, screens and paperwork out of frame.

How to start

Take the fit check. If your team does hands-on work, the result shows the video programs your answers fit, next to any buyers for your records. We may earn a fee if you sign up.