SPL onboarding · Leading a data-collection crew As a Strategic Project Lead (SPL), you operate an independent business that delivers clean, legally sound footage batches to opentez. You decide whom to engage and how to classify, schedule, supervise, and pay your own crew. New to opentez? Read What we’re building first. It’s the shared briefing on why every detail matters. Then this handbook is your operating playbook.

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What an SPL does

An SPL does four things: build a crew, understand the acceptance specifications, guarantee quality and legality, and deliver in bulk. You are solely responsible for your crew and for the integrity of everything attached to the batch, including the footage, consent, paperwork, classification, payment, and legal compliance.
opentez pays the SPL for the accepted batch deliverable. opentez does not hire, schedule, supervise, classify, or pay the SPL’s crew.

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Your playbook

Build your crew & understand acceptance

Manage your own crew and understand the specifications a delivered batch must meet.

Guarantee quality

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

Own consent & the law

Collect and protect the paperwork, follow state and local law, and never allow minors.

Deliver in bulk & get paid

Propose a batch, upload the deliverable, and understand how acceptance and payment work.
You’re the reason a batch is trustworthy. Recruit widely, review honestly, keep the paperwork spotless, and the rest follows.