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Request access
Tell TRACE what work you can capture, where it happens, and which hardware path fits the session.
Contributors
Record your work once. Get paid as long as it earns.
Capture the work you already do with a light sensor kit, and earn a share of the licensing revenue it generates — for as long as the data keeps earning. The earning rate is highest now and falls as the WELL grows, so the hours you bank early are worth the most, year after year. Kits ship to the first cohort first.
The kit
One core unit. Motion fidelity you scale.
MMT core
Gen3 / Gen4
Chest- or head-mounted scene sensing: wide RGB, depth mapping, audio, barometric anchor, and motion. Gen4 (Q2 2027) adds higher-resolution scene capture and true depth imaging.
Body swarm
6–20 sensors
Pose and motion fidelity for how a person moves, works, and shares space with others.
Baseline kit
~$200 target
Gen3-class core plus six to eight body sensors; higher configurations scale with sensor count and MMT generation.
MMT
required core
Chest- or head-mounted scene and task sensing.
6–20
body sensors
Configured by task, motion fidelity, and setting.
~$200
baseline target
Gen3-class core plus six to eight body sensors.
Gated
validated hours
Only compliant, validated hours count.
How contribution works
Request access. Capture useful work. Submit sessions for validation.
TRACE is not asking contributors to perform for a camera. The goal is ordinary task data with enough sensor fidelity, consent discipline, and quality control to make it useful.
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Configure the kit
The MMT records scene context while body sensors capture how you move, reach, turn, lift, and share space.
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Capture real sessions
Useful sessions come from real homes, shops, kitchens, benches, job sites, and workspaces — wherever the work already happens.
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Submit for validation
TRACE checks sync, completeness, quality, capture mode, and fraud signals before a session enters the WELL.
Eligible sessions
The first priority is useful, ordinary physical work.
Strong contributor sessions show movement, tools, timing, proximity, and shared space. TRACE is especially interested in cooperative task data that can't be simulated or collected after the fact.
Ordinary work
A contributor captures a normal task — the kit records how they reach, hold, and work, wherever the work happens.
Tool useHandoffsWorkspace sharingKitchen workBench workHuman-proximity navigation
What counts
Ordinary work is the point.
A simple, well-synced session of someone doing real work can be more valuable than a polished clip. The system cares about physical behavior, context, and validation.
Validation
Validation protects contributors and researchers.
Contributor trust depends on clear gates. Sessions have to pass quality, consent-aware capture settings, and fraud checks before they enter the WELL or earn credit.
Quality
The data has to be useful.
Sessions are checked for sensor sync, signal completeness, task relevance, and enough context to train future behavior models.
Consent
Capture rules are part of the work.
Contributors choose capture modes and are responsible for local laws and permissions. TRACE supplies controls and guidance.
Fraud
Credit follows real production.
Synthetic, replayed, duplicated, low-effort, or non-compliant capture can be rejected before it earns contributor accounting credit.
The upside
The people who produce the data should participate in what it earns.
TRACE is built around contributor alignment: the work you verify should not disappear into someone else's dataset. Exact terms are set during onboarding.
Contributor share
Paid every time the data earns.
Your share keeps paying. Every time the WELL is licensed, contributors are paid a share of that payment — and again on the next one, for as long as the data keeps earning. Exact terms are set during onboarding.
Early network
The first hours are worth the most.
The rate for each recorded hour starts at up to 64× and only falls toward a 1× baseline. Get in early — 30× or more is still on the table for the first public contributors — and every hour you bank holds that rate for as long as the data licenses.
How the recurring share works
- Your session is validated and enters the WELL.
- Each time it is licensed, you are paid a share of that payment.
- It pays again on the next license — for as long as the data keeps earning.
The multiplier only falls — up to 64× at the start, 30× or more for early public contributors, toward 1× as the network matures. The hours you bank early hold their rate for good.
Start here
Get in while the rate is highest.
The first cohort gets kits first, and every hour you bank early is worth more for good. Tell TRACE what you can capture and where you work to claim your place in line.