A2Z runs the marketplace model you know: tasks, assignments, qualifications, an API. The difference is the crowd. Every worker joins through a partner BPO that verifies, trains, manages and pays them. You get the elasticity of a crowd with the accountability of a vendor.
Individual payouts handled by the platform
Partners pay their own people, locally and on a fixed schedule.
Named partner and manager per worker
Someone with a phone number who answers for quality.
Sample task formats live today
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Concept mapping from Mechanical Turk
HIT, assignment, qualification, bonus. Same words, same API shape.
Open crowds gave enterprises scale and took away control. A2Z keeps the scale and puts a company you can name behind every task.
Workers register with a partner BPO in their region. The partner runs identity checks, signs the agreement, assigns a manager and pays out locally. No anonymous accounts, no VPN farms, no one-time contributors.
Qualifications, gold-standard checks, agreement across assignments and manager review, all standard. Route each program only to partners in the jurisdictions you approve, under written data-processing terms.
Tasks, assignments, qualifications, approve and reject, bonuses, webhooks. If you built on Mechanical Turk, your templates and workflows map concept for concept. See the API preview.
Everything below is standard on every program. Not an enterprise tier, not an add-on, not a special request.
Each task exposes the fields it needs and nothing else. A worker confirming an invoice total never sees the account number, the sender or the rest of the document.
Models extract, people verify, managers own the exceptions. One process, one audit trail, one invoice, with no hand-off between an AI vendor and a workforce vendor.
Comparable programs have taken ten times their usual weekly volume without renegotiating anything. Partner teams flex, so your queue never waits on hiring.
Work routes across several partners at once. When one team is at capacity, the queue moves to the next without you touching anything.
Route each program only to partners in the countries you allow, under written data-processing terms. Nothing leaves the perimeter you set.
Gold checks, agreement across assignments and manager review come as standard, with accuracy targets written into the program and reported on every batch.
Live in two weeks without changing your systems.
Start a programPrograms run across the founding partner network with the same controls on every task: qualifications, gold checks, agreement across assignments and a manager who owns the fix.
Countries in the founding partner network
Years of human-in-the-loop document programs behind the team
Invoice a month. No prepaid balances, no per-worker payments
Worker-side fees charged by the platform
These are real task formats from live programs, scored instantly. Enterprises use them to see the format; workers use them to practice. A free account is all you need.
Same marketplace mechanics you already use. The difference is who stands behind the worker, who pays them and what it costs you.
| What matters | A2Z | Amazon Mechanical Turk | TaskUs | Clickworker (LXT) | Prolific | Toloka |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model | Marketplace with a partner BPO behind every worker | Open crowd marketplace | Managed workforce of employed teams | Open crowd plus managed service | Vetted panel of ID-verified participants | Expert network plus tiered crowd |
| Who verifies workers | The partner: identity, contract, manager. Gold checks on tasks | Self-registration; requester qualification tests and approval rates | Employer screening: interviews, skills and behavioral tests | Self-registration and online assessments; ID proof on request | Platform ID check and face scan, re-verified | Skills profile and qualification tests |
| Who pays workers | The partner, locally. The platform never pays individuals | Amazon, from your prepaid balance | TaskUs, as the employer | The platform, weekly payouts | The platform, from prepaid workspace funds | The platform, twice-monthly payouts |
| Fees | One platform fee per program; no worker-side charge | 20%, plus 20% on 10 or more assignments | Not public; contracted per engagement | Not public; quotes via sales | 33.3% academic; 42.8% business | Not public; customer-set hourly rate, prepaid |
| Compliance posture | Approved jurisdictions per program; partner DPAs | None stated | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS | ISO 27001, GDPR stated | ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, GDPR | ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR |
| SLA and support | Per-program terms; audit trail on every task | No SLA; support portal and FAQ | Client-defined SLAs; dedicated teams | Managed service with project manager; no public SLA | Email support; managed services; 99.95% uptime stated | No public SLA; sales-led |
| API | Yes; one to one with the Mechanical Turk API | Yes; Requester API and SDKs via AWS | No public task API | Yes; REST marketplace API with sandbox | Yes; REST API for studies and submissions | Yes; platform APIs; legacy SDK archived |
| Elasticity | Scales through partner headcount, routed by jurisdiction | Up to 250,000 HITs per batch | Dedicated teams ramped by hiring; 14 countries | 10M+ registered contributors; 70+ markets | 300,000+ verified participants; 38+ countries | 6,000+ active contributors; 100+ countries |
| Status | Launching; founding partner programs open now | Closes September 30, 2026 | Active; public company | Active; part of LXT since 2025 | Active | Active; self-service platform relaunched |
Public information as of September 2026; details on request.
Field verification, line-item transcription, exception handling behind OCR and AI extraction.
Field verificationSort inbound mail, claims, forms and contracts into the right queue with agreement checks.
Agreement checksDuplicate detection, master-data cleanup, address and vendor record matching.
Master dataHandwriting capture and field validation for insurance, healthcare and public-sector forms, routed only to approved partners.
Approved partners onlyPolicy labeling for communities and marketplaces, with manager escalation for edge cases.
Manager escalationPairwise comparisons, rubric scoring and human review of model answers for teams shipping AI products.
Rubric scoringA founding partner network. Each partner verifies, contracts, manages and pays its own workers, and answers for their quality.
Same marketplace concepts, different workforce. On A2Z nobody works anonymously: a partner BPO has verified them, signed them and pays them. Enterprises get a vendor to hold accountable, a single invoice and jurisdiction control. Mechanical Turk itself closes on September 30, 2026.
No. Partners pay their workers in local methods on a fixed schedule. A2Z invoices enterprises and settles with partners business to business. That is what keeps the platform out of per-worker tax reporting, money-transmission rules and payout-rail dependencies.
Yes. Enterprises can onboard an existing BPO as a partner for their programs, or work across the founding partner network.
You set the task price. A2Z adds one platform fee per program, quoted up front. There is no surcharge for multiple assignments per task and no premium tier for better workers.
Yes. The preview documentation is public and sandbox keys go to approved workspaces. Concepts map one to one with the Mechanical Turk API so existing integrations move with little rework.
A2Z is operated by FasterAP, Inc., a Delaware corporation based in San Francisco. Contact us at contact@a2zboard.com.
Enterprises: tell us about your program. Workers: pick a partner and start practicing today.