$130-$350/hr vision and microsurgical work, on your schedule
You grade a model's diagnoses, OCT and fundus reads, and surgical plans, catching the macula-on detachment it calls routine. You explain the AAO-aligned timing a checklist leaves out, 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 ophthalmologist's eye on a missed macula-on detachment 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.
Ophthalmology questions
Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.
Sight-threatening decisions hinge on subtle OCT, fundus, and visual field findings a general model misreads. Your retina, glaucoma, or cornea expertise catches the missed urgency or wrong surgical timing. That interpretive eye is what the work pays for.
Yes. We verify board certification and an active or recent US license. Retina, glaucoma, cornea, or cataract subspecialty experience routes you to higher-paying imaging and surgical review work.
No. You evaluate text, image reads, and surgical plans, never a live patient. There is no doctor-patient relationship and no clinical liability. You judge whether the model's reasoning is accurate and safe.
OCT and fundus interpretations, diagnoses and differentials, surgical and anti-VEGF plans, and AAO-aligned reasoning chains. You grade each for imaging accuracy, surgical timing, urgency, and standard of care.
Flag it as a high-severity, sight-threatening miss. Identify any plan that treats an urgent retinal emergency as routine, explain the findings the model overlooked, and describe the correct timing so the system learns to save vision.
Why your expertise matters
Today's ophthalmic AI misjudges subtle imaging and timing, and either threatens sight. It calls a macula-on detachment routine, lets a progressing optic nerve ride, and clears a cataract without weighing comorbidity. Reading an OCT or fundus correctly takes an ophthalmologist, not a checklist. Your corrections teach the model when AAO patterns mean intervene now versus watch.
How pay works
Work pays $130 to $350 an hour, with retina, glaucoma, and cornea reviewers plus detailed imaging interpretation at the top. Bill for time spent evaluating diagnoses, OCT and fundus reads, and surgical plans. Most ophthalmologists work a few flexible hours a week.
What the work looks like
A sample of the vision and microsurgical work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.
- Catch the AI plan that labels a fresh macula-on retinal detachment routine and schedules it weeks out instead of treating it urgently.
- Spot the model's misread of OCT and visual field progression that fails to escalate therapy on a worsening optic nerve.
- Reject a machine-written recommendation that defers anti-VEGF in center-involving diabetic macular edema needing prompt treatment.
- Decide which of two AI fundus reads correctly identifies proliferative diabetic retinopathy that needs intervention.
- Critique an AI cataract plan that recommends surgery without weighing macular comorbidity that would cap the visual outcome.
- Flag the neuro-ophthalmic red flag an AI workup for sudden painless vision loss misses.
Specialties we match
Ophthalmology projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- OCT and fundus image interpretation
- Retinal detachment urgency and surgical timing
- Glaucoma staging and cup-to-disc progression
- Anti-VEGF and diabetic retinopathy management
- Cataract surgical candidacy and comorbidity weighting
- Corneal disease and transplant indications
- AAO preferred practice pattern interpretation
- Visual field and structure-function correlation
- Neuro-ophthalmic red-flag recognition
- Uveitis and inflammatory disease workup
- Perioperative and postoperative complication management
- Differentiating urgent from routine presentations
