$90-$250/hr legal and counsel work, on your schedule
Review AI-generated contracts, briefs, memos, and legal arguments the way you'd review a first-year associate's draft. Catch the hallucinated citation, the unenforceable clause, the argument that loses on appeal. The judgment that separates a passable answer from one you'd put your name on is exactly what AI labs need graded.
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Hi, we're Zac and Jack, the founders of Terac. We want to talk to you directly, because you are the most important part of what we're building.
Terac is a community of experts. People who have spent years getting good at something specific and hard. The world is about to need more of you, not less. As AI takes on more of the world's work, the bottleneck shifts to the people who actually know what they're talking about.
Expert labor is the rarest resource in the world right now, and it is shockingly hard to find. The companies that need a litigator's eye on a flawed argument spend weeks chasing people, paying placement fees, and settling for whoever is available. Meanwhile thousands of qualified people are sitting with knowledge that no one ever asks for.
That gap is what we're here to close. Every project that lands on Terac is routed to the people who actually know the answer, on their schedule, paid fairly, and only when the work is verified. No middleman taking a cut of your time. No vague gigs. No chasing checks.
We care about every single person in this community. If you join Terac, you're not a row in a database to us. We read the feedback. We answer the emails. We will fight for you when a customer is being unreasonable, and we will be honest with you when something on our side is broken. The quality of this panel is our entire company, and we owe you a serious bar.
If you've made it this far, here is what we're asking: claim your profile. Put your expertise on the record. Let the world's most ambitious teams come find you for the work only you can do.
Lawyers questions
Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.
Narrow specializations are often exactly what we need most. Frontier AI models struggle precisely in high-stakes, doctrine-dense areas like Chapter 11 restructuring, removal proceedings, or ERISA disputes, and a specialist can catch errors a generalist reviewer would miss. If your sub-specialty maps to an active AI use case, you may find more work available, not less.
An active license is not required to participate. What matters is the depth of your legal reasoning and your ability to evaluate whether an AI output correctly applies doctrine, case law, or statutory interpretation in your area of expertise. Attorneys who are inactive, retired, or licensed in a single state are welcome, though tasks involving jurisdiction-specific procedure may be flagged with the relevant state so you can self-select appropriately.
No task on Terac involves advising a real party with real legal stakes. You are evaluating and improving AI-generated legal reasoning, not representing or counseling anyone. The work is closer to writing a law review annotation or grading a bar exam response than practicing law, so Model Rules 1.7 (conflict of interest) and 1.18 (duties to prospective clients) do not attach.
Tasks typically involve reviewing AI-drafted contract clauses, motion arguments, statutory analyses, legal memos, and case summaries for accuracy, completeness, and sound reasoning. You may also be asked to write worked examples showing how you would analyze a fact pattern under a given legal standard, such as applying the McDonnell Douglas framework or Chevron deference, so the model can learn from your reasoning process.
Yes. When you build your Terac profile, you can list your J.D., any LL.M. or S.J.D., bar admissions, and areas of concentration. Tasks are matched to reviewer credentials, so an LL.M. in Taxation will route you toward AI outputs covering IRC provisions, partnership allocations, or transfer pricing rather than general tort or contract questions. Specialized credentials expand the pool of tasks available to you rather than limiting it.
Why your expertise matters
Legal reasoning is among the most consequential outputs an AI can produce, and errors in statutory interpretation, jurisdictional analysis, or procedural rules can cause direct harm to real clients. Lawyers bring something no benchmark can replicate: the trained judgment to recognize when a technically plausible-sounding argument is strategically incoherent, procedurally barred, or contrary to controlling precedent in a specific jurisdiction. AI labs need that evaluation at every layer, from contract drafting to appellate brief structure to ethical conflict screening.
How pay works
Rates toward the top of the $90-$250/hr band go to lawyers with deep specialization in high-stakes areas - federal litigation, tax, IP prosecution, securities regulation, or cross-border transactions - where AI errors are hardest to catch and most costly to miss. All work is fully remote, logged by the hour, and payment is released only after your deliverable is verified as complete. There are no billable-hour minimums or long-term commitments, so you can take on tasks around your existing practice.
What the work looks like
A sample of the legal and counsel work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.
- Review an AI-drafted demand letter for a breach-of-contract claim and flag any elements that misstate the elements of the cause of action or cite non-controlling authority.
- Evaluate a model-generated summary of a merger agreement to determine whether material conditions precedent, MAC definitions, and termination rights are accurately characterized.
- Score a set of AI responses to a hypothetical criminal sentencing scenario against the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, noting where the model applies the wrong offense level calculation.
- Draft a worked example of a Rule 12(b)(6) motion-to-dismiss analysis for a specific fact pattern, annotating your reasoning step by step so a model can learn how a litigator structures the argument.
- Assess whether an AI-produced privilege log entry correctly identifies the document as protected under attorney-client privilege or work-product doctrine, and explain any gaps in the analysis.
- Identify jurisdictional and choice-of-law errors in a model-generated LLC operating agreement intended for a Delaware-formed, California-operating company.
Specialties we match
Lawyers projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- Federal civil procedure (FRCP)
- Contract drafting and redlining
- Statutory and regulatory interpretation
- Legal research (Westlaw, Lexis, Fastcase)
- Appellate brief structure
- M&A due diligence
- Intellectual property prosecution
- Securities regulation (Securities Act, Exchange Act)
- Criminal law and sentencing guidelines
- Privilege and confidentiality analysis
- Legal ethics and professional responsibility (MRPC)
- Cross-border / conflict-of-laws analysis
