Idea 304 of 500. Cluster 15: Software, services and the remote desk
Data labelling and AI-training services, which is the new garment work and pays better
The mechanism, from the book
The proof exists in Malabe. What is missing is a thousand small versions of it.
Every idea in cluster 15 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Complete a paid test task on a platform that pays per labelled item, and record your hourly earnings and accuracy score. Then gather five people you trust, train them on the same task, and offer the team's capacity and quality record directly to a small AI company abroad that posts labelling work. A direct contract above the platform rate is the proof.
- Who pays first
- A small AI company abroad that needs labelled data checked to a known accuracy and pays more for a steady team than for anonymous piecework.
- What leaves today
- Labelling work is done here as piecework through foreign platforms, which keep the margin, instead of by teams that sell direct.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. ThreeWhat We Have Already Built
The stock exchange in Malabe
More from cluster 15
- 296Remote-work hubs in Kandy, Galle and Jaffna with fibre, power and a lawyer who knows the tax
- 297A Sri Lankan software product, not a services firm: one tool, sold by subscription to the world
- 298Accounting and bookkeeping outsourcing for small British and Australian firms, in their time zones
- 299Legal paperwork done for foreign law firms, since the common law is the same and the lawyers are here
- 300Typing up doctors' notes and reading scans for foreign hospitals, overnight, to their standard
- 301Architecture and engineering drafting services for firms in the Gulf and Europe
Idea 304 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.