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title: "Build your crew & understand acceptance"
description: "Manage your own crew and understand the objective specifications a batch must meet before opentez accepts it."
---

<span className="otz-eyebrow">SPL playbook · Steps 1–2</span>

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.

## 1. Build your crew

<Steps>
  <Step title="Recruit widely" icon="user-plus">
    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.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Equip them" icon="mobile">
    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.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Onboard them properly" icon="book-open">
    Give every recorder the **[Recorder handbook](/recorder/overview)** 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.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## 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:

<Check>The headband is worn consistently and at the right angle, so both hands and the work land in frame.</Check>
<Check>Hands stay visible throughout. Portions where hands leave the frame are excluded from the accepted batch.</Check>
<Check>Standard Video mode, decent lighting, clean lens, no minors, faces without consent, or other PII.</Check>
<Check>Active work throughout; idle time is cut, not left in.</Check>

<div className="golden-plate">
  <span className="golden-eyebrow">The batch acceptance standard</span>
  <p className="golden-rule">Hands<span className="dot"> · </span>doing real work<span className="dot"> · </span>in frame</p>
  <span className="golden-note">Only delivered footage meeting this specification counts toward the accepted batch.</span>
</div>

<Card title="Next: Guarantee quality" icon="clipboard-check" href="/spl/quality-review">
  Review every recorder's data against the 7-point QA table before it goes to opentez.
</Card>