How to apply to Pareto AI

Who can join

• Be at least 18, apply and be paid under your own name, and keep a single account. Pareto's Modern Slavery Statement lists these as conditions of its vetting before it takes on any freelancer.
• Specialist expertise. Its experts page names six fields: medicine and health (physicians, surgeons, researchers), law and policy (lawyers, regulators, analysts), STEM and research (PhDs, engineers, scientists), finance and strategy (analysts, consultants, bankers), software and ML (developers, ML engineers) and language and humanities (linguists, philosophers, writers). Experts in other fields can create an account and share a resume.
• A resume, and for some projects proof of expertise such as a medical or law degree. Its 2025 trainer page also said every expert signs a non-disclosure agreement.
• A location the project accepts. Projects set their own: Pareto's closed career coach posting, for one, was open only to participants in the US and the UK.
• A payout account in your own name. Pareto's Code of Honor says it will not pay any account, PayPal, Payoneer and Wise included, that is not in the contractor's name, and one bank account may not be used across several Pareto profiles.
• A computer or laptop and a stable internet connection; Pareto said it provides access to any software a project needs.

Step by step

1. 1

   Create your account and share your resume

   On pareto.ai/experts, click Join as an expert. It opens Pareto's Forte portal at forte.pareto.ai/register, where you create an account and share your resume. If your field is not one of the six listed, the page asks you to do the same.

2. 2

   Wait for a project that matches you

   Pareto reviews applications on a rolling basis and says it reaches out when there is a strong match for your background. There is no public list of open expert projects: its careers page listed no openings on 12 November 2026.

3. 3

   Pass the project's screening

   Pareto's 2025 trainer page described the path as a general interest survey, then a screening: selected applicants were told about upcoming projects that fit their expertise and showed their skills in a fully paid trial.

4. 4

   Sign the contractor agreement

   Work runs under an Independent Contractor Agreement, which the Code of Honor says you sign when you start work with Pareto, and nothing in the Code changes its terms. The agreement itself is not published.

5. 5

   Take the paid training

   Its 2025 trainer page said Pareto pays for training on the tasks and tools of your project, with training materials, ongoing support and mentoring by senior prompt engineers and AI experts. Tasks are given out by the researchers' needs, your preferences and your expertise.

6. 6

   Work the hours you signed up for

   The Code of Honor makes you responsible for the tasks and time commitments you sign up for, and you may not leave a project to join another. Do the work yourself: AI, bots, scripts and grammar extension tools are banned unless the project's guidelines allow them.

7. 7

   Get paid for approved work

   Payouts go only into an account in your own name. Pareto may delay or withhold payouts to review submissions after the fact, and reject submissions if the quality of the work or your details are flagged as suspicious.

Tips to get accepted

• Read a closed posting to see what a project looks like: career coaches in the US and UK were offered $75 to $100 per approved hour, for about 10 hours a week over 3 weeks.
• Rates differ by field: a closed posting for US investment analysts offered about $100 per approved hour, depending on model complexity, for 12 hours a week over around 4 weeks.
• Ask when each week's work is paid. In 2024 a trainer said work finished by the end of a Friday was reviewed over the next week and paid the following Friday.
• Keep your own record of hours and submissions, and raise a withheld payment in writing: in 2024 Pareto's founder asked workers in that position to email trust@pareto.ai.
• Never pay to join. Pareto says it does not and will not ask for recruitment fees, and it never asks for original ID documents, only scans.
• Send questions about joining to support@pareto.ai, the address its experts page gives.