SPL playbook · Steps 1–2 Your crew is your independent business responsibility. You decide whom to engage and how to classify, schedule, supervise, insure, and pay them. The specifications below describe what an accepted batch must contain; they are not opentez instructions for managing your crew or performing the underlying work.

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1. Build your crew

Recruit widely

Reach out to anyone doing skilled, hands-on work. The more trades and the more diverse the environments, the more valuable the batch: tilers, painters, framers, landscapers, electricians, masons, fabricators, and everything in between.

Equip them

Every recorder wears the opentez iPhone headband so the camera captures a true first-person view. Make sure each person is comfortable mounting it and checking their own framing.

Onboard them properly

Give every recorder the Recorder handbook and walk them through the golden rule (hands, doing real work, in frame) and the privacy and consent rules before their first session. A ten-minute briefing up front saves you hours of rejected footage later.

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2. Understand the acceptance specifications

You decide how to manage your crew. For footage in a batch to be accepted, the delivered video must meet these specifications:
The headband is worn consistently and at the right angle, so both hands and the work land in frame.
Hands stay visible throughout. Portions where hands leave the frame are excluded from the accepted batch.
Standard Video mode, decent lighting, clean lens, no minors, faces without consent, or other PII.
Active work throughout; idle time is cut, not left in.
The batch acceptance standard

Hands · doing real work · in frame

Only delivered footage meeting this specification counts toward the accepted batch.

Next: Guarantee quality

Review every recorder’s data against the 7-point QA table before it goes to opentez.