$40-$120/hr writing and editing work, on your schedule
Edit a model's writing the way you would a staff draft. Flag the buried lede, the fabricated quote, the prose that is fluent but says nothing. Your ear for what is worth reading is the work.
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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 editor's eye on a buried lede 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.
Writing & Editing questions
Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.
Developmental editors are in demand. Models struggle most with structural feedback on long-form narrative, so tasks like critiquing a model's manuscript notes, assessing its pacing and character-arc commentary, or writing worked structural revisions draw straight on that skill. Copyeditors are needed too, but developmental work is underrepresented in the current pool.
Yes. Some tasks ask you to flag deviations from Chicago, AP, or APA, depending on the content. You do not need to buy a new edition, but stay current enough to apply the rules accurately, especially recent changes like AP's gender-neutral guidance or Chicago's 18th edition updates.
The ACES Certificate signals verified editorial judgment and can strengthen your profile for higher-complexity tasks, like evaluating AI editorial feedback or ranking model edits for accuracy and register. It does not gate you out of any category, and editors without formal credentials who show equivalent experience are considered for the same tasks.
No. The work evaluates or creates training content, not text attributed to any client, so your confidentiality obligations are not implicated. Do not bring proprietary manuscripts, unpublished drafts, or confidential briefs into your responses. As long as your examples rest on your own expertise rather than client-owned material, there is no structural conflict.
Medical, scientific, and technical writers are among the most useful, since those domains carry high-stakes accuracy, controlled vocabulary, and style conventions (AMA, ACS, ICMJE) that general models handle poorly. Tasks include reviewing AI clinical summaries for accuracy and register, evaluating methodology drafts, and writing examples that revise for precision and compliance with standards like CONSORT or PRISMA.
Why your expertise matters
A model's prose buries the lede, fabricates a quote, and stays fluent while saying nothing. Catching that takes a trained editor who can name why a sentence fails on register, rhythm, or factual grounding, not a grammar checker. Your line edits teach these tools the gap between fluent text and writing worth reading.
How pay works
Top of the $40-$120/hr band goes to deep specialists: senior developmental editors with book-length experience, technical writers with STC or regulated-industry backgrounds, copywriters with measurable conversion records. Work is remote and hourly, paid on verified task completion, not a retainer. No quotas. Pick up tasks that fit your schedule.
What the work looks like
A sample of the writing and editing work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.
- Edit an AI-drafted 800-word feature for flow, transitions, and AP Style, annotating each fix with a correcting edit and a brief rationale.
- Rank three AI versions of the same product description by persuasive clarity, naming the word choices that made one work better.
- Write a worked revision of a passive-heavy, jargon-dense summary into plain language, documenting each decision so a model learns it.
- Read an AI grant narrative and flag unsupported claims, a misjudged funder audience, or budget language that breaks NIH or NSF norms.
- Judge whether an AI blog post holds one brand voice throughout, marking where tone shifts and how a skilled editor would realign it.
- Write a copywriting brief, then score an AI headline set against it on clarity, keyword fit, and click intent without inflating scores.
Specialties we match
Writing & Editing projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- Developmental editing
- Copyediting and proofreading
- AP Stylebook
- Chicago Manual of Style
- Technical writing (STC)
- Content strategy
- SEO copywriting
- Grant writing
- Medical / scientific writing
- UX writing and microcopy
- Plain language standards
- Narrative nonfiction structure
