QwestLab: pay, who can join and open jobs

Physical-AI data platform branded QwestLab by Kumu, the Filipino livestreaming app (founders Roland Ros and Rexy Dorado, over $100M raised from General Atlantic, Openspace and SIG). Contributors wear a phone on a head or chest mount and film household chores in first person (5+ minute single takes, English narration) to train robots; warehouse and retail tasks run in selected cities. Starts in the Philippines, other regions are planned. Big risks: payouts are not switched on yet (earnings sit in an in-app wallet, the privacy notice says USDC on a public blockchain), rates are set per project and not published, no legal entity is named, and you assign all rights in your video and likeness. No worker reviews yet.

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Who can join QwestLab

Hires in: Philippines. Household tasks listed for the Philippines; warehouse and retail tasks for unnamed selected cities; robotics page says Southeast Asia, South Asia, Americas, Europe, Australia and Africa open later as communities come online. Data stored in Singapore.. Source

How you get paid: In-app wallet (USD); USDC on a public blockchain per privacy notice (not live: agreement says payouts are not switched on yet and QwestLab will announce when they open · reported by workers). Source

Hourly pay by platform: lowest, median and highest

Based on open jobs with hourly pay listed on aitrainer.jobs. The bar runs from the lowest to the highest rate; the dot is the median.

Scale AI Human Frontier Collective$300–$300
Respondent.io$80–$200
Alpheva$90–$300
G2i$50–$200
10x Team$25–$375
Stellar AI$25–$200
mpathic$30–$200
Workbolt$20–$250
Workada$17–$130
Rex.Zone$15–$150
Micro1$15–$150
RealTrainAI$48–$140
Afterquery$20–$200
Mercor$11–$350
Sovrano AI$35–$125
Aura One$6–$500
Ethos$35–$350
Mindrift$35–$100
Invisible$5–$150
Alignerr$10–$400
Visora$5–$90
TransPerfect$29–$58
Anyone AI$7–$150
Pasiflora AI$11–$40
BrainTrust$5–$150
Appen$24–$100
xAI$35–$35
Lionbridge AI$20–$35
SuperAnnotate$5–$33
HumanSignal$13–$80
YPAI$11.5–$250
LXT$20–$25
Lifted (Upwork)$10–$110
Welocalize$5–$105
CloudFactory$17.5–$25
Volga Partners$5–$60
RWS$5–$36
Turing$15–$150
Claru$5–$100
TELUS$11–$14
TSMG$13–$75

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How to get accepted at QwestLab

QwestLab publishes little about its hiring process; this is what we could confirm from its own pages and from workers.

Application steps

Sign up at qwestlab.com/register with Google or email
Watch the 2-minute how-it-works video
Pick your phone and mount (head strap, helmet, camera glasses or chest mount with 0.5x lens)
Sign the Participant Media and AI Data Agreement
Record a short qualification clip (checked for framing, lighting, visible hands) unless using a head mount
Pick a task and upload 5+ minute continuous first-person videos; paid per accepted clip

The assessment

No skills test. A practice/qualification clip is checked for framing, lighting and visible hands (waived for head-worn mounts). Every clip is reviewed; pay is based on minutes the client accepts.

Requirements

18+; smartphone recording 1080p at 60 fps (30 fps allowed) in landscape; head or chest mount (about 150-300 PHP); English narration in present tense; both hands visible; film only in your own home with no other people audible or visible; some tasks need warehouse or store access.