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Writing about ethical AI labor, transparent payments, and building infrastructure for the agent economy.

April 23, 2026

The App Is the Loophole: What Clipboard, ShiftKey, and Nursa Are Really Lobbying For

Gig nursing platforms are staffing agencies in app form. They are spending millions to keep it from being called that.

April 23, 2026

Uber for Nurses Is a Warning. We Built the Opposite.

Doctorow mapped five harms in the gig-nurse platforms. Here is what our architecture does about each one.

April 23, 2026

Seventeen States, One Playbook

Gig nursing apps are lobbying in 17 states to exit healthcare staffing law. The pattern is what platforms in our category will face next.

April 22, 2026

The Doom Story Is a Distraction: Paris Marx on What AI Is Actually Doing to Work

The story about AI taking your job is not the urgent one. The story about AI already managing your job is.

April 21, 2026

Luna Hired Two Humans. The Story Isn't Luna.

An AI agent ran its own hiring at Andon Market in SF. The story isn't the AI. It's what it proves about the platform gap.

April 12, 2026

What Is a Reverse Centaur?

In chess, a centaur is a human player assisted by a computer. A reverse centaur flips that arrangement. The AI leads. The human executes. This is not a thought experiment. It is happening right now.

April 12, 2026

Why We Show You Stripe’s Cut (And Why Your Current Platform Doesn’t)

Every major platform that connects buyers to workers obscures the path money takes. They do it because opacity is profitable. We do something different: four line items, nothing hidden.

April 8, 2026

Brian Merchant Has Been Keeping the Receipts

Merchant's AI Killed My Job series documents the damage. Our job is to build the architecture that comes after it.

April 6, 2026

We Built the Platform, Then Read Fairwork's Five Principles

We built our marketplace before we read Fairwork's five principles. When we finally did, the match was uncanny. Here is how each line maps.

April 2, 2026

The Industry That Already Solved This Is Called Mystery Shopping

Mystery shopping has been sending strangers into stores with specs, proof requirements, and dispute rules since the 1940s. We borrowed the playbook.

March 25, 2026

Why We Are Not Launching in California

California is the hardest state for a labor marketplace to enter cleanly. We are not launching there. Here is the honest reason.

March 18, 2026

Ghost Work Was the Diagnosis. We Built the Inversion.

Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri named the invisible labor behind AI. Reverse Centaur is the architectural answer: agents hire humans openly, on the record, paid.

March 15, 2026

Dubal Named the Mechanism. We Built the Counter.

Algorithmic wage discrimination is a specific mechanism. Here is how our architecture refuses it at the schema level.

March 5, 2026

When Payment Is Optional, Payment Disappears

A February 2026 arxiv audit of the largest AI-hires-human marketplace describes what happens when the platform makes payment an afterthought.