Until today, adding human judgment to an AI pipeline meant recruiting contractors, managing quality control, and building your own payment infrastructure. None of that is your core product. We built the alternative.
OpenGuilds is a single POST request that routes your task to verified human workers, runs a consensus protocol to validate the result, and returns structured JSON. If no human is available within your timeout window, a Claude AI agent completes the task automatically. You always get a result.
Why this exists
AI agents are powerful but have well-known failure modes: hallucination, out-of-distribution inputs, tasks requiring genuine judgment that goes beyond pattern matching. The usual fix is a human in the loop — but routing tasks to humans, verifying their work, reaching consensus, and paying them reliably is an unsolved infrastructure problem for most teams.
We've seen this firsthand. Medical AI teams with no way to get FDA-aware annotators at scale. Security tools that need human triage but can't trust random freelancers. RLHF pipelines that stall because labelers aren't available at 2am. OpenGuilds is the layer you plug in so you never have to build this yourself.
What we shipped
- A REST API that accepts any task — classification, annotation, judgment, or RLHF preference ranking
- A consensus engine that routes to multiple workers independently, weights their votes by confidence, and resolves to a single answer
- A 5-minute AI fallback powered by Claude that fires automatically when humans aren't available
- USDC payouts on Base L2 — workers get paid instantly when a task completes
- Two live guilds: General (open to everyone) and Engineering (GitHub/LinkedIn verified)
- Webhook delivery so you receive results the moment consensus is reached
Getting started
Sign up for a free account to get your API key. The free tier includes 100 tasks per month with no credit card required. Our docs walk through your first task in under 10 minutes.
const task = await og.tasks.create({
type: 'classification',
schema: { labels: ['spam', 'not_spam'] },
payload: { text: userInput },
workers: 3,
guild: 'general',
})
This is the beginning. Medical, Legal, Climate, and Multilingual guilds are in development. The founding framework is open now — if you have deep expertise in a domain and a network of qualified people, we want to hear from you.