---
title: "Welcome to opentez"
description: "The field handbook for the people who record the future of work and the leads who run the crews."
---

<span className="otz-eyebrow">Field handbook · Rev A</span>

You're joining a small group of people teaching robots how skilled work is really
done. You wear a phone on a headband, do real work with your hands, and upload clean
footage, and that footage becomes the ground truth a new kind of AI learns from.

This handbook has two halves. Read **[What we're building](/what-were-building)** first.
It's the same for everyone and explains why your care with the details is the whole
product. Then follow the playbook for your role.

<Info>
  New here? Start with **[What we're building](/what-were-building)**. It takes about
  five minutes and no background in AI is needed.
</Info>

## Pick your role

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Recorder" icon="camera" href="/recorder/overview">
    You wear the headband, do the work, and upload the clips. Your playbook covers
    framing, the golden rule, privacy and consent, and how you get paid.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Strategic Project Lead (SPL)" icon="users" href="/spl/overview">
    You build and run a crew of recorders, guarantee the quality and legality of every
    batch, and deliver it to opentez in bulk.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Before your first session

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="The golden rule" icon="hand" href="/recorder/recording#the-golden-rule">
    Hands, doing real work, in frame. Everything else follows from this.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Privacy and consent" icon="shield-halved" href="/recorder/privacy">
    Keep PII out, never film minors, and use the right consent path for every adult.
  </Card>
  <Card title="What to capture" icon="list-check" href="/recorder/trades">
    The trades and hands-on work that make a clip valuable.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Device & sensor eligibility" icon="mobile-screen" href="/reference/device-eligibility">
    Which iPhone, Android, or GoPro qualifies, plus the sensor test that really decides.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

<div className="otz-spec">
  <div className="cell"><span className="k">Viewpoint</span><span className="v">First-person / egocentric</span></div>
  <div className="cell"><span className="k">Signal</span><span className="v">Video + IMU</span></div>
  <div className="cell"><span className="k">Paid on</span><span className="v">Accepted footage delivered</span></div>
  <div className="cell"><span className="k">Upload</span><span className="v">upload.opentez.com</span></div>
</div>

<Note>
  Not sure whether something is allowed, such as a task, a location, or a rejected clip? Ask your
  SPL or the opentez team **before** you record. We would much rather answer first than
  reject later.
</Note>