tasktrain.ai
For plumbers, electricians and every hands-on trade

Wear a camera at work. Get paid twice.

Robotics companies need to see how real hands-on work gets done. Record your workday on an approved body cam, upload it, and earn $2 for every approved hour, plus half of everything we make licensing it.

Apply to record See how pay works
$2
per approved hour, flat
50%
of licensing revenue
0
videos ever published
REC 00:14:32
0 other people in frame
action: seat wrench on slip nut action: tighten, quarter turns action: steady trap, check seal
Example clip: a plumber tightening a sink trap. This is an animation. We never publish contributor footage, not even here.

tasktrain.ai in 36 seconds

How it works

STEP 1

Apply and buy your camera

Tell us your trade. Once you're accepted, buy one of our approved body cams: [APPROVED MODELS], from [CAMERA PRICE]. It's yours to keep.

STEP 2

Get permission to film

You're responsible for the right to record wherever you work: your employer, the customer, the property owner. No permission, no recording.

STEP 3

Clip it on and work

Do the job the way you always do. The camera should see one thing: you working, with your hands, your tools and the task in front of you.

STEP 4

Upload and get paid

Upload your footage. We review every clip, pay $2 for each approved hour, and add it to the pool we license to robotics companies.

Who we're looking for

Robots can't learn a trade from a manual. They need hours of skilled people doing the real thing. If you work with your hands, your workday is worth recording.

Pipes and power

  • Plumbers
  • Electricians
  • HVAC technicians
  • Gas fitters
  • Solar installers

Build and finish

  • Carpenters
  • Drywallers and plasterers
  • Tilers
  • Painters
  • Roofers
  • Bricklayers and masons
  • Flooring installers
  • Glaziers

Repair and mechanical

  • Auto mechanics
  • Appliance repair techs
  • Welders
  • Machinists
  • Small-engine and bike mechanics
  • Locksmiths

Around the property

  • Landscapers and gardeners
  • Cleaners
  • Handymen
  • Pool and irrigation techs
  • Movers and furniture assemblers

Don't see your trade? Apply anyway and tell us what you do.

What we accept

The rule is simple: the only thing happening on screen is you interacting with the work. Like the example clip above.

Accepted

  • Only you, working: your hands, your tools, the materials and the job
  • Filmed on an approved body cam
  • Recorded somewhere you have secured the right to film

Not accepted

  • Anyone else visible: customers, coworkers, passers-by, kids, anyone
  • Footage recorded without permission from whoever controls the site
  • Anything on screen other than you interacting with the work

We review every upload. Footage that breaks these rules is removed before payment.

Two ways you get paid

Both are on top of what you already earn doing the job itself.

PAYMENT 1

Flat rate: $2 for every approved hour

You record
You upload
We review
$2 × approved hours, paid to you [PAYOUT SCHEDULE]

Guaranteed, whether or not anyone ever licenses the footage.

PAYMENT 2

Revenue share: 50/50 on everything we license

Robotics company licenses footage
tasktrain.ai receives the fee
Half goes to the contributors in that licence
Your share, by the hours and quality of your footage in it
50% contributors
50% tasktrain.ai

The same footage can be licensed more than once. Every time it is, you're paid again.

WORKED EXAMPLE · ILLUSTRATIVE FIGURES ONLY, NOT A FORECAST
You upload 100 approved hours
$200
flat rate, 100 × $2
A lab pays $20,000 for a dataset. Your footage earns 2% of it
+ $200
2% of the $10,000 contributor half
Total so far
$400
and more each time it's licensed again

The body cam is your own purchase. Revenue share depends on licensing deals and isn't guaranteed; the flat rate is.

What counts as an approved hour

An approved hour is an hour of you actively working on camera. Driving, breaks and a camera left running on a shelf don't count. These checks keep it fair for people doing real work.

Straight from the camera

Uploads come directly from your approved body cam through our app, tied to its serial number. We don't accept loose video files.

Active work only

Every clip is checked for hands-on work, alongside the camera's motion and location data. Idle time is trimmed out. Paid hours are capped at [DAILY CAP] a day.

Original footage, once

Every clip is fingerprinted. Duplicates, re-uploads and staged repeats are rejected, across all accounts.

Verified tradespeople

We check your ID and your trade licence or certificate when you sign up. One person, one account, one payout method.

Reviewed, then paid

Payments clear after a [HOLD PERIOD] review window, and we hand-check a random sample of everything uploaded.

Better footage earns more

Revenue share is weighted toward varied, useful footage, not just raw hours. Padding the clock doesn't pay.

Faked, staged or copied footage, or filming without permission, means removal from tasktrain.ai and loss of any unpaid balance.

Your footage is never published.

Not on a website. Not on social media. Not in our ads. Your video exists for one purpose: teaching robots how skilled work is done.

Training data only

Footage is licensed to robotics companies to train their robots, and for nothing else.

No public library

There's no feed, no gallery and no way for the public to watch what you record.

Nobody else on camera

Clips showing any other person are rejected, so customers and coworkers stay out of the data entirely.

FOR ROBOTICS TEAMS

First-person footage of real trades work

Recorded by working tradespeople, with filming rights secured by each contributor and every clip screened for other people.

Talk to us about licensing

Apply to record

Tell us what you do. If your trade is a fit, we'll send the approved camera list and the contributor agreement.