$110-$310/hr pulmonary and respiratory medicine work, on your schedule
Review AI-drafted PFT reads, COPD and ILD plans, and nodule recommendations the way you'd check a clinic consult: flag the missed restrictive defect, defend the right inhaler step. Remote, paid per task.
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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 a pulmonologist catching a restrictive pattern the model read as normal 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.
Pulmonology questions
Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.
Pulmonology lives in pattern integration: reading spirometry, lung volumes, and DLCO together, spotting UIP on HRCT, and phenotyping asthma beyond the label. Models handle the obstruction-versus-restriction split but miss these nuances. That judgment is what these projects pay you to capture.
We ask for board certification in pulmonary medicine (or pulmonary/critical care) and an active or recent US license. We verify credentials at onboarding via Government ID and professional attestations. Some projects need active practice; others accept recently retired pulmonologists.
No. You evaluate AI outputs and training data, not patients. No patient relationship, no orders, no liability. You apply your pulmonary expertise to judge whether the model's reasoning is safe and correct, the way you'd review a fellow's clinic note.
PFT and spirometry reads, COPD and asthma plans, ILD workups, lung-nodule surveillance recommendations, chest-imaging summaries, and AI-drafted consult notes. You flag errors, defend GOLD and Fleischner standards, and write adversarial cases that expose where pulmonary reasoning breaks.
That gap is the target. Models over-apply GOLD groups and step protocols without weighing exacerbation history, phenotype, or comorbidity. You mark the cases where the guideline misfits the patient: over-escalated inhalers, missed phenotypes, mis-staged severity, so the model learns reasoning over rote classification.
Why your expertise matters
Today's pulmonary AI reads spirometry without lung volumes and DLCO, calls a restrictive defect normal, and steps up inhalers GOLD doesn't support. Catching that takes a pulmonologist, not a guideline table. Your corrections teach these tools where pattern recognition actually meets the patient.
How pay works
Pulmonologists earn $110 to $310 an hour. Routine COPD and spirometry review sits lower; complex ILD workups, nodule surveillance, and bronchoscopy reasoning reach the top. Remote and asynchronous, a few hours a week. Paid hourly for review, with bonuses on adversarial cases you build.
What the work looks like
A sample of the pulmonary and respiratory medicine work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.
- Flag an AI PFT read that called a clear restrictive pattern normal by ignoring reduced lung volumes and DLCO.
- Grade two COPD plans and catch the one escalating a GOLD group A patient to triple therapy without justification.
- Audit a nodule recommendation that discharged an 8mm part-solid ground-glass nodule instead of Fleischner follow-up.
- Rank asthma outputs and flag the one that missed an eosinophilic phenotype warranting biologic therapy.
- Write a UIP-pattern ILD case to test whether the model recommends the right workup versus empiric steroids.
- Critique a bronchoscopy plan that recommended the procedure where noninvasive workup was the next step.
Specialties we match
Pulmonology projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- Pulmonary function test (PFT) interpretation
- Spirometry, lung volumes, and DLCO integration
- COPD diagnosis and GOLD-group classification
- Asthma phenotyping and step therapy
- Interstitial lung disease workup
- Pulmonary nodule risk assessment and surveillance
- Bronchoscopy indication and planning
- Chest imaging (CT, HRCT) interpretation
- Pleural disease and effusion management
- Pulmonary hypertension evaluation
- Inhaled and biologic therapy selection
- Sleep-disordered breathing assessment
