---
title: "SPL handbook"
description: "As an independent Strategic Project Lead, you manage your own crew and deliver clean, legally sound footage batches to opentez."
---

<span className="otz-eyebrow">SPL onboarding · Leading a data-collection crew</span>

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](/what-were-building)** first. It's the shared
briefing on why every detail matters. Then this handbook is your operating playbook.

## 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.

<Note>
  opentez pays the SPL for the accepted batch deliverable. opentez does not hire,
  schedule, supervise, classify, or pay the SPL's crew.
</Note>

## Your playbook

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Build your crew & understand acceptance" icon="users-gear" href="/spl/build-crew">
    Manage your own crew and understand the specifications a delivered batch must meet.
  </Card>
  <Card title="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>
  <Card title="Own consent & the law" icon="scale-balanced" href="/spl/consent-and-law">
    Collect and protect the paperwork, follow state and local law, and never allow minors.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Deliver in bulk & get paid" icon="truck-fast" href="/spl/deliver">
    Propose a batch, upload the deliverable, and understand how acceptance and payment work.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

<Tip>
  You're the reason a batch is trustworthy. Recruit widely, review honestly, keep the
  paperwork spotless, and the rest follows.
</Tip>