{
  "title": "Expert networks methodology",
  "version": 1,
  "restoredOn": "2026-10-04",
  "incomeLane": "personal",
  "leadType": "expert_gig",
  "summary": "Discover legitimate paid expertise opportunities, qualify truthfully, complete the approved work and track the payment. This is an operating method, not an authorization to submit or act as a participant.",
  "steps": [
    [
      "Find",
      "Review available provider invitations and permitted public recruitment pages. Daily Reddit discovery surfaces concrete studies rather than generic platform discussion. Keep provider, study ID, source type and actual discovery date."
    ],
    [
      "Qualify",
      "Match requirements to verified personal experience. Check topic, role, real tool usage, time, compensation, privacy, conflicts and availability. Unknown qualifications remain a blocker; do not invent facts to pass a screener."
    ],
    [
      "Apply",
      "Prepare a source-backed qualification summary and next action. The person reviews and completes any personal-experience attestation or submission. A research record never authorizes an automated application."
    ],
    [
      "Complete",
      "Attend or complete the accepted consultation, interview or study as the real participant. Record scope, actual duration and agreed compensation without disclosing confidential employer or customer information."
    ],
    [
      "Follow up",
      "Track invitation, scheduling, completion and payment status. Recheck expiring or filled opportunities; preserve every status change. A temporary source failure does not prove closure."
    ],
    [
      "Collect",
      "Verify the agreed payout, payment route and receipt. Distinguish advertised, accepted, earned and received amounts; do not call a payment collected merely because a session finished."
    ],
    [
      "Track",
      "Retain an auditable record with source, dates, qualification caveats and next action. Keep expired, closed, filled and completed entries in history; deduplicate repeated invitations and cross-posts."
    ]
  ],
  "priorities": [
    "Prioritize about $75 or more for up to 30 minutes, roughly $250/hour or more when calculable, or substantive interviews/consultations worth about $150 or more. These are screening preferences, not guaranteed returns.",
    "Lower or unstated compensation may justify qualification when the topic is unusually relevant and the initial screening cost is low. Explain the exception instead of inventing a payout.",
    "Favor firsthand enterprise AI, data/evaluation, cloud/compute, enterprise software, advertising/growth, procurement and founder experience only when it is genuinely supported.",
    "Account for unpaid screening, preparation, privacy requirements and time to payment. A headline hourly rate alone does not establish value."
  ],
  "sourceLanes": [
    {
      "name": "Provider invitations / email-derived records",
      "rule": "Use an authorized read when available. Public entries show the provider and study details, never private message URLs, personalized screener links or authentication tokens. The displayed record check date—not a cadence promise—shows freshness."
    },
    {
      "name": "Public recruitment and Reddit",
      "rule": "Daily Reddit discovery is configured around 9 AM Pacific. Confirm the underlying opportunity when possible; mark the source Provider (Reddit). Ignore referral spam, scams, generic chatter and closed or unpaid offers."
    },
    {
      "name": "Permitted portal review",
      "rule": "Use legitimately available account or public portal access only. Do not bypass logins or attest as another person. Portal availability and an active account are not assumed from a platform name."
    }
  ],
  "privacy": [
    "Expert gigs belong to Expert consulting, not AuraOne, VeerOne or Chahal Foundation revenue.",
    "No fabricated employer, job title, spending authority, tool use, budget, demographic, credential or qualification.",
    "No confidential information, material nonpublic information or prohibited conflicts.",
    "Never impersonate the human participant or automate personal-experience attestations.",
    "Public research stays separate from private account information, outreach notes and payment details."
  ],
  "requiredFields": [
    "Provider / source",
    "Study or project ID",
    "Title and relevant topic",
    "Advertised payout and currency, or not stated",
    "Estimated time and effective hourly rate only when calculable",
    "Truthful qualification criteria and caveats",
    "Discovered date and actual last-checked date",
    "Availability / verified expiry",
    "Status and status history",
    "Next action",
    "Public source URL when safe; never private invitation links"
  ],
  "cadence": "Daily public Reddit scan plus the daily Leads research workflow. Email-derived records retain their actual check dates; this page does not assert that an hourly inbox scan is currently operating.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Current expert-gig records",
      "url": "/expert-networks.json"
    },
    {
      "label": "Brand and lead-type routing",
      "url": "/lead-taxonomy.json"
    },
    {
      "label": "Daily Leads routing contract",
      "url": "/maintenance/LEAD_ROUTING.md"
    }
  ]
}