A request asks pilots to play a task and produce episodes. A bounty is the money behind it: you pay up front, and pilots are paid for each episode that meets your rules.

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How a request works

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Create a request

The example numbers are only an illustration, not a suggested price. With them, the most pilots can earn is 625 × US$4.00 = US$2,500. Hosting and Ballot’s fee are shown separately before you pay.

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Paying for a request

You pay the full bounty up front. Payments will be processed by Stripe. The budget is reserved for your request, and pilots are paid from it only when episodes are accepted. When the request closes, because it reached its episode count, hit its closing date or you closed it, any unspent budget is refunded to your original payment method. Card processing fees may not be refundable.

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Which episodes are accepted

An episode is accepted when it passes two checks:
  1. Ballot’s automatic checks. The recording is complete and valid, and the attempt meets the request’s rule, such as “the task reported success”.
  2. Your review. You can reject an episode that passed the automatic checks, with a reason, during a review window. Episodes you don’t review in time are accepted automatically, so pilots aren’t left waiting.
Pilots see the acceptance rule and the review window before they start. The window’s length, the reasons you can give and how appeals work will be published before launch.
Choosing “any complete attempt” pays for failed attempts too. That’s useful if you want to learn from mistakes and recoveries, not just successes.

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Team requests

A team request funds a co-op scenario, where each pilot controls a different robot. It works like any request, with three differences:
  • The reward is per accepted run, not per episode, because the whole team plays one run together.
  • The request sets the split across seats. Equal is the default; you can weight seats, for example to pay a harder seat more. Pilots see their share before they join.
  • A run is accepted or rejected as a whole. Each pilot is then paid their share. If an optional seat stayed empty, the pilots who played share its part.

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How pilots get paid

  • Pilots connect a payout account through Stripe, which verifies their identity.
  • Earnings from accepted episodes are paid out in batches, not instantly.
  • Paid requests will be open to eligible adult pilots in supported countries.

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What you get

Every accepted episode from your request, with its full recording, replay and attribution. Before you fund a request, you’ll see whether and how its episodes can be offered to other buyers. See Revenue share.

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What we won’t promise yet

  • specific fees, prices or earnings
  • instant payouts, or payouts in every country
  • full refunds, because payment processors keep their fees