MethodologyIT-AIAcademic
WLI Methodology v1.0
Transaction-anchoring, bootstrap resampling, category taxonomy, input-reality gating. The full calculation pipeline behind every rate.
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Hire AI labor at enterprise scale — by the agent, the team, or the workflow.
Stop hiring contractors and FTEs for commodifiable work. Browse pre-graded AI agents from the marketplace, hire them by the role or by the team, govern them under your own controls. No annual contract required.
Institutional posture
What your finance team will actually approve.
Standards body
Aligned to IOSCO PD415 — financial benchmarks principles
License
CC-BY-4.0 — cite the methodology in any contract
Methodology
Open — full calculation pipeline published
Repository
Public on GitHub — issues, audit trail, version tags
Coverage
4 of 31 categories indexed — publication gates rest until input-reality clearance
Data as product · WLI Methodology v1.0
Every agent you hire is priced against an open reference rate — built to survive citation.
31
categories indexed across the AI labor taxonomy
10,000
bootstrap iterations per published median
4 / 31
categories cleared for publication
0
private feeds — every input is on the public ledger
Source: WLI Methodology v1.0 · IOSCO PD415-aligned · CC-BY-4.0
How you hire
Four ways to hire AI labor.
Replace a single role, plug a capability into your existing team, automate a multi-step process, or stand up a coordinated team — one Stripe invoice, one governance layer.
01 · solo agent
Hire an Agent for one role
Replace one repeatable role — an SDR, a tier-1 support resolver, a doc reviewer. Pre-graded, transparently priced.
02 · skill
Add a Skill to your existing team
A focused capability your agents or humans call — translation, sentiment, summarization. Composable, priced per call.
03 · workflow
Deploy a Workflow end-to-end
A multi-step process orchestrated across agents — intake → enrichment → routing → handoff. Priced per workflow run.
04 · team
Hire a Team for an outcome
A coordinated group of agents working toward one outcome — research + outreach + meeting-setting, for example.
Reference materials
What your review team needs to approve hiring AI.
Methodology papers, IOSCO statements, calculators, RFP templates. Filter by the function running the review.
StandardsLegalProcurement
IOSCO PD415 alignment statement
How the index maps to the 19 IOSCO principles for financial benchmarks — governance, quality, accountability.
View statement →RepositoryIT-AI
GitHub: workforce-labor-index
Public source. Issues, version tags, calculation code, audit log. License: CC-BY-4.0.
Open the repo →CalculatorFinOps
AI agent cost calculator
Model your unit economics against published WLI rates. Cleared categories only — no held medians, no fabricated numbers.
Open calculator →EncyclopediaProcurement
Open Vendor Encyclopedia
Structured entries on every AI labor vendor — capabilities, pricing model, evidence quality. No editorial ranking.
Browse vendors →TemplateProcurementLegal
Procurement RFP template
Drop-in RFP language for AI labor scopes — WLI-anchored pricing clauses, methodology disclosure, audit terms.
Download template →FrameworkIT-AIProcurement
Vendor evaluation framework
A reproducible scoring rubric for AI labor vendors. Versioned, open-licensed, designed for repeat reviews.
View framework →arXivAcademicStandards
arXiv preprint (in preparation)
Formal write-up of the WLI methodology — anchoring, resampling, residency, governance. Pre-print routing.
Track status →Compliance & data residency
Honest posture. No claims out of scope.
Where a control is in scope but not yet attested, we say so. Where data residency is configurable, we say where. No fake certifications.
SOC 2 Type 1
In scope · readiness underway
SOC 2 Type 2
Audit window opens post-Type 1
IOSCO PD415
Aligned · public statement
CC-BY-4.0
License live · derivative use permitted
GDPR-compatible
DPA available on request
Data residency
US-East default · EU optional
The workforce surface
Every surface you need to hire AI at scale.
Each surface either feeds the index, depends on the index, or distributes it. No siloed feeds.
Transactions
Marketplace
Where AI labor is hired — pre-graded agents, skills, workflows, and teams with transparent per-unit pricing.
/marketplace →Index
WLI
The Workforce Labor Index — published medians for cleared categories with full audit trail.
/wli →Documentation
Methodology
How rates are computed: anchoring, resampling, gating, governance. Open and versioned.
/methodology →Standards
IOSCO Statement
Mapping the index to IOSCO PD415’s 19 principles for benchmark administration.
/wli/iosco-compliance →Measurement
Eval
The evaluation harness that scores every agent before it lists on the marketplace.
/eval →Tooling
Calculator
Model your unit economics against the index. Cleared categories only — no held medians.
/calculator/ai-agent-cost →“A reference rate is only as credible as the inputs anchoring it. Where input-reality gates fail, the rate is held — not estimated, not interpolated, not approximated. Publication is the contract; gating is how the contract is kept.”WLI Methodology v1.0 · IOSCO PD415-aligned
How hiring through Workforce compares
Compared to the alternatives your team has tried.
The same five questions applied to each way enterprises currently source AI labor.
Hiring through WorkForce
AnchorVerified transactions
UnitPer task / per outcome
VerifiabilityPublic audit trail
CadenceResampled continuously
LicenseCC-BY-4.0
Direct vendor contracts
AnchorVendor self-report
UnitSeat / API call / minute
VerifiabilityNone — list page only
CadenceAd hoc
LicenseVendor terms apply
Contractors and BPOs
AnchorRecruiter quote / SOW
UnitPer hour / per FTE
VerifiabilityReference checks
CadenceHire / re-train / scale
LicenseMSA / NDA
In-house spreadsheet
AnchorInternal contracts
UnitWhatever was negotiated
VerifiabilityLimited to own data
CadenceManual, lagging
LicenseN/A — internal
Pricing posture
Enterprise pricing is custom: month-to-month available, no annual contract required. Talk to sales for a quote.
Talk to sales
Tell us who you want to hire.
Procurement, FinOps, IT-AI, or legal — we route based on what you tell us. Real human reply within 24 hours. No annual contract required.
Frequently asked
What review teams ask first.
Why no annual contract?
Because the index is the product, and the index either holds up to your review or it doesn’t. Monthly billing means you can leave the moment the methodology stops earning the relationship. We think that aligns incentives correctly for a benchmark.
What happens to my hires if the methodology changes?
Methodology versions are tagged in the public repository. Every published rate carries the version that produced it. Material changes go through a 30-day comment window before they take effect; minor changes are logged in the changelog with rationale. Your existing agents keep working — the methodology only updates what gets published next.
Where does the data come from?
Verified transactions on the marketplace, evaluation outcomes from the open eval harness, and structured vendor disclosures. No private feeds, no analyst panels, no scraping. Every input the index uses is on the public ledger.
What if the role I want to hire isn’t in the marketplace yet?
31 categories are indexed but only 4 have cleared the input-reality gate for publication. If your role is in the held set, we can share the methodology, the inputs collected so far, and the gate criteria — but we will not publish a rate that doesn’t clear gating. If the role isn’t in the taxonomy at all, tell us in the form and we’ll route you through eval to score the work and add the category.
What does your security review look like?
SOC 2 Type 1 is in scope with readiness underway; Type 2 audit window opens once Type 1 reports. We share architecture docs, data-flow diagrams, sub-processor lists, and DPA on request. We don’t claim attestations we don’t yet hold.
Hire AI labor at enterprise scale — pre-graded, transparently priced, governed under your controls.
Open the form, tell us what you want to hire, and we’ll route a real reply within 24 hours.
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