Recorder onboarding · Recording the future of work Your job is simple to describe and takes practice to do well: wear the headband, do real work with your hands visible, and upload clean footage. Everything in this handbook exists to make your footage qualify for payment and to keep everyone, including the people and places you film, protected. New to opentez? Read What we’re building first, so you know why these details matter. Then everything below is your playbook.
The Golden Rule

Hands · doing real work · in frame

If that’s true for the whole clip, you’re almost certainly recording something we can pay for.

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Your playbook

Recording

Before you hit record, while you record, breaks, and the safety rule that beats every shot.

Privacy and consent

Keep PII out, never film minors, and know the quick Texas option when an adult walks into frame.

What to capture

The trades and hands-on work we’re looking for.

Uploading & getting paid

How to upload, how payment works, and your pre-upload checklist.

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How accepted deliverables are measured

You are paid for accepted footage delivered to opentez. Each accepted deliverable is measured in qualifying footage-hours. A footage-hour measures the usable video delivered; it is not an hourly wage or payment for time worked or availability. Footage qualifies when all three are true:

Hands working

Your hands are visible and you’re actively working.

Privacy clean

No minors or exposed PII, and every visible adult has the required consent record.

Consent on file

Required consent exists for anyone and any place shown.
Idle portions, out-of-frame stretches, and clips that break the privacy rules are excluded from the accepted deliverable. The pages that follow describe opentez’s acceptance specifications for submitted footage, not how you must perform your underlying work.