Frequently asked questions

Real, scoped work that a person completes without a professional fee, under a written agreement covering scope, deliverables, timeline and confidentiality. The Organization gets a defined contribution; the participant builds experience that can be verified afterwards.

An Experience Project carries no professional fee, and every project says so plainly before you apply. That is deliberate — the alternative is people discovering it after investing effort. Paid Projects exist separately and are labelled as such.

Yes, and separately from compensation. An Organization can mark a project as supporting expenses, and a participant can request reimbursement for legitimate project costs with evidence attached. Reimbursing a cost is not a fee, and the platform never presents them as the same thing.

Yes. Paid Projects carry a stated budget range. Anyone can read the full brief; applying requires Gold membership.

Paid Projects attract far more applications than Experience Projects, and the limit keeps that volume manageable for Organizations while funding the platform. The complete core experience — including Experience Projects, collaboration and certificates — stays free.

No. Gold controls access to apply and how visible your profile is. Organizations choose whom to work with on merit, and no plan changes that.

No, and this is the distinction we are strictest about. Verification comes from credentials reviewed by a person and from completed work. Gold is a paid membership. They use different colours and different marks throughout the platform for exactly this reason.

That a named person completed a specific project for a specific Organization, that both sides confirmed completion, and which skills the project involved. It records the names as they stood when it was issued, so it does not change later.

No. It is not employment, not a degree, and not a professional licence, and it says so on its face. It is a verifiable record of project work.

Yes. A registration number is optional. Every Organization is still reviewed by our team before its first public project can be published.

Yes. Departments, labs and university-affiliated groups take part as Organization Accounts on the same terms as any other Organization.

A Supervisor is someone either party invites to observe a single project — a mentor, a lecturer, a manager. The role is strictly read-only: a Supervisor can follow progress and decisions but cannot send messages, submit work, approve expenses or agree scope changes, and cannot open attached files.

Ownership and portfolio rights follow the agreement both parties accept before work starts, including how much the participant may show publicly. A project marked confidential never produces a publicly visible portfolio entry.

Either party can raise a dispute from the project workspace. The project moves to a disputed state, all history stays visible, and our team reviews it and resolves it with a written note to both sides.

No. There is no escrow, wallet or payout. For Paid Projects the two parties arrange payment directly; the platform records what was agreed, when the Organization reported sending it, and when the participant confirmed receiving it. Only the participant can confirm receipt.