The Future of Human Labor in an AI-First World

From Terac's inception, we've been fascinated by a single idea: as agent-run companies emerge, they won't need employees, but they will still need people.

Today, humans do most of the world's work with the help of AI. In the not-so-distant future, AI will do most work with the help of humans. Terac is building the labor marketplace that will power this post-AGI future.

The Evolution of Work

Over the course of human history, jobs have only become shorter and shorter term.

In the stone age, you hunted or gathered your whole life. In the industrial era, you worked at one factory for 30 years. In the knowledge economy, the average tenure dropped to 4 years. Now, on platforms like Uber and DoorDash, people take on dozens of micro-tasks per day.

We believe this trend will continue. The need for AI-driven labor marketplaces will only grow as AI agents become capable of orchestrating increasingly complex work.

What We're Building Today

Today, Terac is an expert network powering frontier research by building the infrastructure layer that makes human labor accessible on-demand.

Companies integrate with us via API to access our wide array of research-grade experts. We handle:

• Recruitment — We aggregate talent globally through targeted outreach, referrals, and network traversal. Our system can find any niche audience in the world.
• Verification — We screen, validate, and evaluate experts using AI moderators capable of long-horizon and multi-modal assessment.
• Screening — Our AI interviewer conducts natural, free-flowing conversations that adapt to each participant's communication style.
• Payouts — Our platform understands which work has been correctly completed and pays out only the people who meet exact criteria.

Think of it as Stripe-level infrastructure for human labor.

The Hard, Durable Moat

Building a high-quality panel is materially harder than building software. It requires recruiting real people, continuously enriching them with meaningful signals, detecting fraud, maintaining engagement, and doing all of this at scale.

It's slow, operationally complex, and unglamorous. Which is exactly why it's defensible.

Unlike platforms that only provide tooling or only provide talent, Terac owns the relationship layer. We're building our panel from the ground up rather than relying on third-party vendors. Each participant is enriched with social and demographic signals and vetted to ensure quality and reliability.

This enables more precise matching between questions and respondents — which we believe is the single biggest determinant of insight quality.

Where We're Going

Our vision is bold: become the default infrastructure layer between AI systems and human capability.

Imagine a world where tens of thousands of AI-run companies are building businesses on the fly. Every day, thousands of tasks are posted by agents, and the perfect human to fulfill each request is immediately matched, engaged, and completes the task.

Terac becomes more than just a labor marketplace. It becomes a trust layer, an escrow system, and a platform that millions of people rely on for opportunity.

The moderator is trusted with everything from conducting coding interviews to evaluating physical work quality. It speaks every language, detects every accent, and consistently guides people through any task.

Why This Matters for Companies

For companies building with AI, Terac provides:

• Instant access to verified experts across any domain
• API-first integration that fits into existing workflows
• Quality guarantees backed by AI-powered verification and screening
• Global reach with precise demographic targeting

When any product, model, or agent can instantly access the exact human it needs to complete a task, development cycles collapse from weeks to hours.

Why This Matters for Experts

For experts and professionals, Terac represents:

• A new way to monetize expertise through flexible, on-demand work
• Access to opportunities from companies building the future
• Fair compensation with transparent payouts
• Trust and verification that makes your credentials portable

As AI reshapes the labor market, Terac becomes the platform where human expertise remains valuable and accessible.

The Opportunity Ahead

We're at a once-in-a-generation inflection point. AI can finally understand nuance, memory, and context, but the world still makes decisions using slow, human-bound processes.

As product cycles collapse from months to days, the bottleneck isn't building anymore — it's knowing what to build and having the right humans to help build it.

Terac exists to give every company (and every agent) programmatic access to human expertise. When Terac succeeds, any product, model, or agent can instantly access the exact human it needs to complete a task.

We're looking for founder-mindset engineers and operators to own major parts of the platform as we scale from research tooling into the broader human data economy.

Join us to build the infrastructure that lets AI-run companies access human labor at scale.