FAQ

Basics

What is Reasoning Capture?

A network where idle computers do AI work and their owners get paid in USDC, a digital dollar. Software companies buy that AI work through a standard API. A coordinator in the middle matches jobs to devices, checks the work, and settles the money.

What is a "job"?

One request: text goes in ("extract the total from this receipt…"), text comes back ("$482.19"). Each job runs on exactly one device. Large workloads are thousands of jobs spread across many devices in parallel. Every job is metered — who asked, which device served it, how many tokens, what it cost.

Is this live?

The network is in closed testing. Join the waitlist and we'll send an invite code as capacity opens.

Earning

How do I start earning?

One click: open the earn page from your invite link, enter your email, press Start. Keep the tab open — that's the whole job. It works on laptops and phones. A desktop app for bigger earnings is in development, and technical users can run our command-line agent to serve full models on a GPU today.

What is my computer actually doing?

It downloads a free, open AI model once (like a game loading assets), then answers text requests using its own processor. The intelligence runs on your machine — your computer isn't a middleman to some AI service. Your device is the AI.

Do I need an AI subscription or an API key from anyone?

No. Open-weight models are free for anyone to download and run. You're not reselling access to an AI company — you're selling your computer's time.

Can buyers run programs on my machine?

No. Jobs are data, never code: text in, text out, through a fixed runtime you installed. There is no mechanism for a buyer to execute anything on your device.

How much will I earn?

Honestly: it depends on your hardware, your uptime, and buyer demand. You're paid per token of work actually served — roughly 70% of what the buyer pays. A browser tab serves small models and earns pocket change; a gaming PC running full models around the clock earns meaningfully more. Nobody should quit a job over this.

How do I get paid?

Earnings accrue in USDC and pay out automatically once they cross a small threshold, through a regulated payment provider. Expect a one-time identity check at your first payout — that's the provider's compliance requirement, not ours.

What does it cost me?

Electricity while jobs run. You control how much your device takes on, and you can stop any time by closing the tab or the app. In-flight work simply moves to another device.

Buying

Who buys this? Is it like subscribing to ChatGPT or Claude?

No — those are chat apps for humans. Our buyers are software: apps and data pipelines making thousands of automated requests where cost is the whole game. Think resume screeners, product-description generators, document extraction, moderation, synthetic-data pipelines, agent frameworks.

Why is it cheaper than the big providers?

Their price covers datacenters they had to build and power. Ours covers a fraction of the electricity on computers that were already bought and already on. Same free models, structurally cheaper hardware. That's the entire edge, and it doesn't expire.

How do I know the answers are honest?

A slice of all jobs is quietly re-run on a second, independent device and compared. Devices that match build trust and get more work; devices that don't stop earning. We're the only consumer-hardware network that audits its own work this way.

How do I integrate?

The API speaks the standard chat-completions dialect. If your code works with OpenAI-style SDKs, you change one line — the base URL — and you're on the network. Streaming included.

Should I send sensitive data?

Treat us like any inference provider: the device serving your request sees its text. Don't send secrets you wouldn't send an AI API generally. Encrypted execution is on the roadmap; today the honest answer is: keep regulated data off the network.

What about latency-critical or frontier-quality work?

Not our fight. If you need sub-second responses in a user-facing product or frontier closed-model quality, use a datacenter provider. We win on price for work that can wait seconds, not milliseconds.

The money layer

Why USDC and not points?

Points counted on your own device can be faked, and points aren't money. USDC is a dollar. All metering happens on our servers — a device can't inflate its own earnings, and neither can we quietly dilute yours.

What's the token?

On top of USDC wages, contributors accrue a network token for verified work — it goes live on Robinhood Chain. The token is upside and ownership flavor, never the paycheck: it's minted only against audited work, with a hard cap, claimable on-chain by you. Nothing on this site is an offer of securities or investment advice.

Does the network pre-buy AI credits from anyone?

No. The core loop has no upstream supplier: buyer pays, a device serves, the owner earns, the network keeps a share. During the bootstrap period some frontier-model requests route through a cloud provider at a margin — a convenience tier that shrinks as network devices come online, never a subsidy.