$150-$400/hr musculoskeletal and operative work, on your schedule
You grade a model's fracture classifications, operative templates, and rehab protocols, catching the impending compartment syndrome it misses. You explain the bone quality and patient factors that change the construct, remote and paid by the hour.
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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 an orthopod's eye on a missed compartment syndrome 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.
Orthopedic Surgery questions
Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.
Trauma, arthroplasty, sports, spine, and hand each carry decision rules a general model blurs. Your subspecialty depth catches the wrong implant, the missed urgency, or the rehab that outruns healing. That precision is what earns the higher rates.
Yes. We verify board certification and an active or recent US license. Documented fellowship training in trauma, arthroplasty, sports, spine, or hand routes you to higher-paying, construct-level review work.
No. You evaluate text, classifications, and operative plans, never a live patient. There is no doctor-patient relationship and no clinical liability. You judge whether the model's reasoning is correct and safe.
Fracture classifications and imaging reads, operative plans and implant selections, indication assessments against AAOS guidance, and rehab protocols. You grade each for accuracy, surgical urgency, construct soundness, and standard of care.
Flag it as a high-severity miss. Identify any plan that overlooks limb-threatening urgency, explain the clinical signs the model ignored, and describe the fasciotomy decision so the system learns to prioritize the emergency.
Why your expertise matters
Today's orthopedic AI skips the details that decide the case. Whether a fracture is operative turns on displacement, joint involvement, soft tissue, and bone quality, and a missed compartment syndrome or wrong implant lasts a lifetime. Reading that takes a surgeon, not a classification table. Your corrections teach the model when AAOS guidance bends to the patient.
How pay works
Work pays $150 to $400 an hour, with trauma, arthroplasty, and spine fellowship training plus detailed operative planning at the top. Bill for time spent grading fracture classifications, implant and approach choices, and rehab protocols. Most surgeons work a handful of flexible hours a week.
What the work looks like
A sample of the musculoskeletal and operative work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.
- Catch the wrong Gustilo-Anderson grade in an AI report on an open tibia fracture that underestimates washout urgency.
- Judge whether the model's plan for a displaced femoral neck fracture in an elderly patient correctly picks arthroplasty over fixation.
- Spot the early compartment syndrome an AI triage note misses in a swollen, painful leg after a tibial fracture.
- Decide which of two AI implant choices for an intertrochanteric hip fracture better accounts for stability and bone quality.
- Flag a machine-written post-ACL rehab protocol that advances weight-bearing and range of motion faster than tissue heals.
- Reject an AI recommendation pushing immediate total knee arthroplasty when imaging and exam still support nonoperative care.
Specialties we match
Orthopedic Surgery projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- Fracture classification and operative indication assessment
- Implant and fixation construct selection
- Total joint arthroplasty planning and revision judgment
- Open fracture grading and washout timing
- Compartment syndrome recognition and urgency
- Sports medicine and ligamentous injury management
- Spine surgery indications and red-flag screening
- Hand and upper extremity reconstruction
- AAOS guideline interpretation and nuance
- Nonoperative versus operative decision-making
- Postoperative rehab protocol design
- Periprosthetic infection and complication management
