$40-$120/hr writing and editing work, on your schedule
Review AI-generated writing the way you'd edit a staff draft. Flag the buried lede, the fabricated quote, the prose that's fluent but says nothing. The judgment that turns competent text into writing worth reading - and catches what's quietly wrong - is exactly what AI labs need to learn.
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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 editor's eye on a buried lede 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.
Writing & Editing questions
Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.
Developmental editors are actively in demand. AI models struggle most with structural feedback on long-form narrative, so tasks like evaluating a model's manuscript critique, assessing pacing and character arc commentary, or creating worked examples of structural revision notes draw directly on that skill set. Copyeditors and proofreaders are also needed, but developmental work is not overrepresented in the current pool.
Yes. Some tasks explicitly ask you to flag deviations from Chicago Manual of Style, AP Stylebook, or APA Publication Manual, depending on the content domain being evaluated. You do not need to purchase a new edition to qualify, but you should be current enough with the guide to apply its rules accurately, particularly in areas that have changed recently, such as AP's evolving guidance on gender-neutral language or Chicago's 18th edition updates.
Holding the ACES Certificate in Editing signals a verified baseline in editorial judgment and is one of the credentials that can strengthen your profile for higher-complexity tasks, such as evaluating AI-generated editorial feedback or ranking model edits for accuracy and register. It does not gate you out of any task category, and editors without formal credentials who demonstrate equivalent experience through their work history are considered for the same tasks.
The tasks you complete for Terac involve evaluating or creating training content, not producing text attributed to any client or subject matter expert, so standard ghostwriting confidentiality obligations to your existing clients are not implicated. You should not bring proprietary client manuscripts, unpublished drafts, or confidential briefs into your responses. As long as your examples and evaluations are based on your own expertise rather than client-owned material, there is no structural conflict.
Medical, scientific, and technical writers are among the more useful contributors for AI evaluation work precisely because their domains have high-stakes accuracy standards, controlled vocabulary requirements, and style conventions (AMA Manual of Style, ACS Style Guide, ICMJE authorship criteria) that general-purpose models handle poorly. Tasks in those areas include reviewing AI-written clinical summaries for accuracy and register, evaluating methodology section drafts, and creating annotated examples that show how an expert would revise for precision and compliance with reporting standards such as CONSORT or PRISMA.
Why your expertise matters
Writing and editing professionals carry years of judgment about sentence-level clarity, logical structure, voice consistency, and genre conventions that AI models struggle to self-evaluate. When a language model produces a poorly argued essay, a stylistically inconsistent narrative, or copy that violates AP Style in subtle ways, it takes a trained human editor to catch those failures and explain precisely why they matter. That granular feedback - about register, rhythm, audience awareness, and factual grounding - is the signal that closes the gap between fluent text and genuinely good writing.
How pay works
Rates toward $120/hr reflect deep sub-specialty expertise: senior developmental editors with book-length experience, technical writers holding STC certification or with regulated-industry backgrounds, or copywriters with measurable conversion track records can command the top of the band. Work is fully remote and compensated hourly on verified task completion - you are paid when you finish and submit a reviewed task, not on a retainer or speculative basis. There are no billable-hour quotas; you pick up tasks that fit your schedule.
What the work looks like
A sample of the writing and editing work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.
- Review an AI-drafted 800-word feature article for logical flow, paragraph transitions, and adherence to AP Style, then annotate each deviation with a correcting edit and a brief rationale.
- Evaluate three AI-generated versions of the same product description and rank them by persuasive clarity, noting specific word choices or structural patterns that made one version more effective than the others.
- Write a worked example of how you would revise a passive-heavy, jargon-dense technical summary into plain language, documenting each decision so a model can learn the reasoning behind it.
- Read an AI-produced grant proposal narrative and flag any passages where claims are unsupported, the funder audience is misjudged, or the budget justification language contradicts standard NIH or NSF conventions.
- Assess whether an AI-generated blog post maintains a consistent brand voice across all sections, identifying the specific sentences where tone shifts and explaining what a skilled editor would do to realign them.
- Create a short-form copywriting brief and then evaluate an AI-generated headline set against it, scoring each headline on clarity, keyword integration, and click-through intent without inflating the scores.
Specialties we match
Writing & Editing projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- Developmental editing
- Copyediting and proofreading
- AP Stylebook
- Chicago Manual of Style
- Technical writing (STC)
- Content strategy
- SEO copywriting
- Grant writing
- Medical / scientific writing
- UX writing and microcopy
- Plain language standards
- Narrative nonfiction structure
