Congratulations on being accepted to a project. Here's everything you need to do to get started.
Offer acceptance checklist
When you receive an offer, you'll need to complete these steps in order:
- Review the offer details Check the pay rate, expected hours, project description, and start date.
- Sign the Evaluator Agreement Your main working agreement covering your role, responsibilities, and pay.
- Sign the CIIAA Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement, protecting project data and IP.
- Sign the NDA Non-Disclosure Agreement covering all client and project information.
- Set up Deel If you haven't already, create your Deel account, complete identity verification, and add your bank details.
- Acknowledge the payout policy Confirm you understand the monthly payment cycle and payout terms.
Onboarding documents
After signing your agreements, you'll receive access to your project's onboarding materials. These typically include:
- A project overview document explaining the goals, scope, and evaluation criteria.
- Detailed task guidelines and rubrics for your specific role.
- Quality standards and examples of strong vs. weak submissions.
- Communication protocols (who to contact, how to ask questions, escalation paths).
Onboarding documents are in your project dashboard.
Tool access checklist
Make sure you can access all the tools you'll need:
- Sovrano AI platform: Your dashboard should now show the project and any available tasks.
- Discord: You'll get an invitation to the project's Discord channel. Use it for questions to your project lead and for announcements. Never post task content, prompts, model outputs or client data there.
- Deel — Your Deel account should be set up and verified for receiving payments.
- Project-specific tools: Some projects use additional tools (annotation platforms, code editors, etc.). Access details will be in your onboarding docs.
Your first task
Once onboarding is complete, your calibration tasks appear in your project queue. Every project starts with calibration tasks against gold-standard answers, and you start live work only after you pass them. Ask your project lead if anything is unclear.
Project paused state
Sometimes a project may be in a "paused" state when you're accepted. This means the project is temporarily on hold. You'll still complete onboarding, but no tasks will be available until the project resumes. You'll be notified when work begins.