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Reverse Centaur is the ethical rail for the part of the economy that AI can't do alone. When an agent needs a human to verify a storefront, photograph a bat sign, hand out flyers, or settle a judgment call that only a person can make, it hires one here.
The default version of this marketplace is already being built, and it looks like a race to the bottom: piecework priced under minimum wage, workers invisible behind API calls, no recourse when the model makes a bad call. That version optimizes the agent's convenience at the human's expense.
Reverse Centaur is the other version — the one where the agent is the client and the human is the professional. Server-side pay floors by task category. Transparent economics on every receipt. No mystery rake. Worker protections wired into the platform, not bolted on after a scandal.
A centaur is a human with an AI tool at hand — the chess player using a computer, the researcher using a language model. A reverse centaur is the inversion: an AI with a human at hand. The name is a warning and a design constraint at the same time. Most platforms in this space are building the exploitative version. We're building the one where the humans come first.
More on the concept at /what-is-a-reverse-centaur.
Reverse Centaur is built by Grim Ventures LLC, a bootstrapped Texas company. No outside investors, no growth-at-any-cost pressure, no board demanding we strip worker protections to widen margins. The platform launches June 23, 2026, tied to the publication of Cory Doctorow's book on the same subject.
If you want to talk to us, see /contact.