Guilds are how skilled workers organize in the AI era

For centuries, guilds protected craftspeople — setting standards, ensuring fair pay, and giving workers collective identity. As AI transforms every industry, we are rebuilding that model for the digital age. A guild is not just a job category. It is a professional community with verified standards, shared reputation, and a voice in how the platform evolves.

Why guilds, not gigs

Verified, not anonymous

Gig platforms treat workers as interchangeable. Guilds don't. Every member passes domain-specific verification. Your credentials mean something here — and they compound over time into a portable on-chain record that belongs to you, not us.

Standards that protect everyone

Each guild sets its own accuracy standards, verification requirements, and task types. That is not bureaucracy — it is how workers maintain the value of their expertise. A guild with high standards earns higher rates and attracts better work.

Collective identity in a solo world

Remote work is isolating. Guilds give you a community of peers — people doing the same work, at the same standard, facing the same challenges. The community, leaderboard, and discussion threads are not features. They are the guild.

Current guilds

Two guilds are open today. Four more are in development — apply to found one, or join the waitlist for early access.

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General Guild

Open to everyone

The foundation of OpenGuilds. General guild workers handle the broadest range of tasks — content moderation, data labeling, image classification, form extraction, and opinion surveys. No specialized credentials required.

$0.03 – $0.15 / task
8,200 active workers
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Engineering Guild

GitHub or LinkedIn verified

Verified software engineers and technical professionals. Tasks include code review, security vulnerability triage, technical documentation QA, API spec validation, and architectural judgment tasks.

$0.50 – $3.00 / task
1,840 active workers
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Medical Guild

Medical license required

Licensed clinicians — physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals. Tasks include clinical note review, ICD-10 coding, symptom classification, drug interaction flagging, and medical image annotation for diagnostic AI systems.

$2.00 – $15.00 / task
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Legal Guild

Bar admission required

Verified attorneys and paralegals. Tasks include contract clause extraction, jurisdiction classification, case law relevance scoring, compliance checklist validation, and regulatory risk flagging for legal AI pipelines.

$3.00 – $20.00 / task
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Climate Guild

Domain credential required

Environmental scientists, climate researchers, and sustainability professionals. Tasks include climate data labeling, carbon reporting validation, environmental impact classification, and policy document review for green AI applications.

$0.75 – $6.00 / task
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Coming soon

Multilingual Guild

Native fluency assessment

Fluent speakers of non-English languages verified by native proficiency assessment. Tasks include translation QA, cross-lingual content moderation, multilingual RLHF preference ranking, and dialect classification.

$0.05 – $1.50 / task
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How guild verification works

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Apply

Submit your credentials through the guild portal. Provide your resume, any relevant license numbers, and a brief skills assessment specific to your guild.

02

Verify

Our guild team reviews your application within 48 hours. For the Engineering guild, credentials are cross-referenced with professional profiles and a technical assessment.

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Earn

Once approved, you're matched to tasks in your guild immediately. Your accuracy score builds over time, unlocking veteran and guild master status with higher-paying tasks.

Guild ranks

Member

New to the guild. Eligible for standard tasks.

Veteran

Completed 500+ tasks with 95%+ accuracy. Access to premium tasks and higher base rates.

Guild Master

Top 1% of workers in the guild. Eligible to review disputed tasks and earn a reviewer bonus.

Lead a guild

The most important guilds of the next decade have not been founded yet. Medical AI annotation. Climate data labeling. Legal document review. Robotics training data. Every specialized domain will need organized, verified human workers — and someone has to build those communities.

Guild Founders are domain experts who recruit workers, source tasks, and co-build with OpenGuilds. They earn a share of every task their guild completes. If you have deep expertise in a field and a network of qualified people, we want to hear from you.

Apply to found a guild
Medical AI annotation
Legal document review
Climate data labeling
Robotics training data
Education & assessment
Multilingual evaluation