Consulting Services, Tax Management, and Support
We've been in the business of building solutions on top of Mechanical Turk longer than anyone else, and our platform expertise and advice will save you a lot of time, money, and headaches. We know how to take your business goals and data, break it down into byte-sized work that is optimal for MTurk throughput and price points, design your task in a way that lowers your costs and increases Worker productivity, manage the MTurk workforce for you, and ultimately deliver a quality set of results that we will stand by.
Mechanical Turk is a complex platform, mostly due to the fact that humans are part of the process, and humans are much more complex and unstructured than a computer program. Amazon tries to hide this you by suggesting that you can get human intelligence by calling an API, but you really can't treat humans like code - you have to treat everyone as an individual and expect all kinds of mistakes. All of the workflows and trust metrics we have give each of our Workers feedback from peers so they know how they are doing and and we give them a place where they can raise their voice and be heard. They are not just a cog in the great machine to us.
In addition to our advice, we shelter you from any tax burden (1099 forms) you will encounter using MTurk, not to mention any liability or concerns with using and paying an international workforce. A Worker who works on your task and gets paid is actually considered a contractor to your business, even though you have almost no information about the Worker. By hiring CastingWords you don't have to consider this - we'll take care of it.
Lastly, we offer support for all of our services. If you have an issue, we're availble to you just a phone call or email away. No need to try contacting Amazon with your questions and waiting several days for a response.
Getting Started Now
Want to get started now? There is no faster way to have have an automated system up and running than using our platform. From richer data-set input/output options, integration APIs, to configurable workflows and Trust Graph, we can get you up and running quickly. We offer several flexible pricing options around our platform, from a setup fee with an ongoing percentage above the work performed through MTurk to licensing the complete stack and hosting it on your own EC2 instance. Please contact us for additional details: prof_services@castingwords.com
We look forward to serving you and delivering the quality results that your business needs.