What a Verifier Earns: Three Commercial Shapes

What a verifier earns: three commercial shapes

Verifiers are paid in three shapes, and the three have different rules. They are never blended, and a number from one shape is never quoted for another. What separates them is who funds the work, who owns the IP, how the price is set, and whether a client exclusivity window applies. The IP stake hangs on one shape only.

One rule comes first. Verified Reality hires nobody. Every verifier is an independent contractor.

Shape one: client verification, or a mission

A client commissions the verification. The verifier who captures it earns 50% of the mission gross fee. Verified Reality keeps the remaining share as its technology fee: 50% where the verifier has no recruiters, 45% where one affiliate level applies, and 40% where two do. The two affiliate overrides come out of Verified Reality's margin, never out of the verifier's half of the fee.

The verifier's half of each published price:

• CAD $132.50 on a Standard (M1) mission with a CAD $265 gross fee.
• CAD $282.50 on an Enterprise (M2) mission with a CAD $565 gross fee.

There is no IP ownership on this shape. It is client work for hire: the verifier earns the fee and owns no intellectual property in the deliverable.

What a verifier earns here depends on missions actually claimed and completed. There is no assured volume.

Shape two: a client-funded (external) bounty

The job comes from a client, and so does the price. The client posts the bounty and pitches what the work is worth, for example a newspaper commissioning coverage of an event downtown. The verifier earns 50% of that pitched price.

On ownership this shape behaves like any client engagement. The client keeps 100% of the IP, and the 50% IP stake does not apply here.

The client holds 72 hours of exclusivity on the record. After that it is on the open market for non-exclusive licensing, and the same sealed record is offered to Newsload for publication.

The verifier's pay here is 50% of the pitched price, a fee for the capture. What it comes to depends on the price the client sets and on the verifier completing the work, not on joining.

Shape three: an internal bounty

HQ creates the bounty and sets a flat rate, typically CAD $45 and higher on some bounties, plus a share of the IP the bounty produces. Archivist ground-truth missions are the usual example.

On this shape the verifier holds 50% of the IP, shared with HQ, and earns 50% of licensing revenue when that shared IP is licensed. The shared IP is licensed non-exclusively on the Verified Reality Exchange.

This is the only shape carrying the IP stake. The IP share is not income on its own: it pays only if a licence is taken on the Exchange, and its value depends on the terms.

Every bounty reaches the Exchange

Every bounty ends up on the Verified Reality Exchange, both kinds, internal and client-funded. There is no choice in the matter for either one, and that is by design, because the Exchange is where the value is. What separates the two bounty shapes is not whether they reach the Exchange, since they both do.

The affiliate overrides

Recruiters earn overrides of 5% plus 5%, two levels maximum, paid out of Verified Reality's margin and never out of a verifier's pay.

Those overrides are paid out of HQ's side of the fee, never out of the verifier's 50%: HQ keeps 50% where no recruiter is involved, 45% where one affiliate level applies, and 40% where two do. The verifier's own cut is the same in all three cases.

An override accrues only where a recruiter actually referred the verifier.

Where the fee goes: the published split

Every product has a published split: what the verifier is paid, a shared cost pool of 28%, and what is left to the platform. The pool is 5% plus 5% to the two referring network levels and 18% cost of delivery. The verifier's cut is what the verifier earns; the rest funds the network and the platform's own costs and margin.

Product	Verifier cut	Platform share
M1 / M2 field missions	50%	22%
Institutional Campaign	50%	22%
Audits	20%	52%
Subscriptions (Pro & recurring)	20%	52%
Client-funded bounty	50%	22%

Platform share is 100% minus the verifier cut minus the 28% cost pool, so it differs by product: on a mission the platform keeps 22% of the fee, on an audit or a subscription 52%. Audits and subscriptions are separate products with their own pricing, not bounty shapes, and a number from one row is never quoted for another.

The Mentorship Quality Dividend is 5%, accrued by the sponsoring recruiter on a mission that earns a five-star client review. It is funded from the platform's margin and does not touch a verifier's pay.

Published rates

Published buyer-facing rates in CAD, set by HQ:

• CAD $265 / $565: Standard (M1) and Enterprise (M2) field mission.
• CAD $1,100: Institutional Campaign.
• CAD $145 / $195 / $225 per hour: M1 / M2 / Institutional, rush work at 1.5 times.
• CAD $99 to $850: audit range.
• CAD $44.99 per month: Pro subscription, 1 TB storage.
• 75% off: Solo Mode discount.

Rates are published per product and can change. The split above is what any change is applied to.

The line not to blend

Mission: 50% of the mission gross, no IP, because it is client work for hire. Client-funded bounty: 50% of the pitched price, client keeps 100% of the IP. Internal bounty: flat HQ rate plus 50% shared IP, the only shape carrying the IP stake. Overrides of 5% plus 5%, two levels maximum, come out of Verified Reality's margin, never a verifier's pay.

Earnings depend on how many missions a verifier actually claims and completes and on licensing actually occurring, not on joining the network. Verified Reality hires nobody; every verifier runs their own business.

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