Turn your team's work into additional revenue

Yes. Your business signs a B2B contract directly with the technology partner and is paid against invoices.

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  Direct contract

  It is signed by your business and the technology partner.

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  We're not a staffing agency

  We don't take anyone on or look for people. Your business works with its own team as usual.

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  Participation is voluntary

  Each employee decides for themselves whether to film and confirms their consent in the app.

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  Show it to your lawyer

  You'll get the contract before signing. Show it to your lawyer and accountant.

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  Which documents

  A contract form and the general terms of cooperation. Before the start, both sides confirm a project card by e-mail: where filming happens and what is filmed.

Only hands and the workspace are in frame. The videos are used to train robots, not to assess your staff's performance.

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  No sound

  Recording has no sound. Conversations don't end up in the data.

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  Faces are blurred

  Faces, documents and screens in frame are blurred automatically.

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  Breaks don't count

  Lunch, downtime and talking without hand activity don't go into accepted hours.

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  Where filming is off-limits

  Outsiders, changing rooms, toilets, documents and screens. This is settled in advance, in the recording rules.

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  Consent and GDPR

  Each employee confirms their consent in the app. Data is processed in line with GDPR.

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  Where recordings go

  Straight to the partner’s secure servers. Your business has no access to them and keeps no copies, and clients receive only anonymised data.

It's ordinary invoiced business income. Your accountant books it as a service.

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  Invoice from your business

  Your business issues it to the technology partner for the accepted hours. Your accountant books it as a service to a foreign client.

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  How to share with your team

  The owner decides: a bonus, extra pay or keep it in the business. It's usually made official: a separate clause in the umowa zlecenia (a Polish civil-law contract) or an annex to the employment contract.

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  Documents in advance

  You'll get the contract and a summary for your accountant and lawyer before signing.

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  Taxes

  The calculator gives a rough picture for Poland. Your accountant will do the exact calculation.

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  Once a month

  Together with the invoice, your business sends a short confirmation by e-mail: people take part voluntarily and legally, and they have been paid. The partner sends a report on how many hours were recorded.

Up to 50 zł net for each employee’s first 25 accepted hours per month, 17 zł for every hour after that. Accepted hour = recording time × quality factor, so the result depends on video quality.

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  An honest example

  10 hours of recording at 70% quality give 7 accepted hours. Not every hour filmed gets paid.

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  What improves quality

  Good lighting, both hands in frame, real work at your own pace, no screens in frame.

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  What doesn't count

  Breaks, talking without hand activity and recordings that break the rules.

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  When the money arrives

  In the first month, payouts may be weekly, then monthly, after the quality check.

This is an estimate, not a guarantee of income. The rate and terms are set by the technology partner.

After recording, an AI system analyses the video by itself and gives it a quality score. On the recording timeline it marks with dots the moments that lowered the quality: you can tap each dot to see what went wrong.

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  Hands out of frame

  The recording was running, but no hands were in the frame.

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  Hands doing nothing

  Hands are in the frame, but it is unclear what they are doing.

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  Too dark

  There is not enough light, so the system cannot see the work well.

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  Short unclear actions

  The system could not tell what was being done or what the result was. This happens less often than the first three reasons.

The picture shows an example: of almost 30 minutes recorded, 19 were accepted.

No. You are paid only for accepted hours: fewer hours simply means a smaller invoice. No penalties or extra charges.

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  First month: pilot

  It continues only if both sides agree. Otherwise the contract simply ends.

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  After that: open-ended contract

  You can end it with 2 months’ notice, effective at the end of a month.

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  The only penalty

  For disclosing confidential information. The terms contain no other penalties.

For the time recorded or as a fixed amount. The quality score of recordings must not be used to calculate an individual’s pay or to assess their work.

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  Bonus per recorded hour

  Under your internal bonus rules. The rate is set using the average share of accepted hours at your location.

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  A clause in the contract

  A separate rate per recorded hour in the employee’s contract or in an annex.

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  A fixed amount

  For example, for every full 20 hours of recording per week or per month.

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  Where the numbers come from

  A monthly report shows how much each employee recorded. No quality scores per person.

Templates for bonus rules, an agreement and a contract annex are available on request.

Participation is voluntary, nobody is forced. The question usually goes away once the team sees what it looks like.

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  The work doesn't change

  A light head strap, both hands free. Same pace, same tasks.

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  It's not monitoring

  The recordings are for teaching robots. Nobody uses them to assess people's work.

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  Something to share

  The income goes to the business. You can pass part of it to the team as a bonus: exactly how is up to you.

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  We'll explain it ourselves

  We'll help you present it to the team, on site or by video call. You can start with two or three people.

As much as they want: there is no daily limit.

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  What counts

  Only hours that pass the quality check. Breaks and talking without hands-on work do not count.

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  Voluntary

  Nobody has to record a set number of hours, and saying no has no consequences.

Robots take on the heavy, repetitive work. And it's people who teach them.

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  A master stays a master

  Machines still can't do what the hands of a baker, an assembler or a packer do. They won't learn it without people.

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  How we see it

  Machines do the routine, and people get time for what needs a head and experience.

First-person videos of real manual work. Not staged, just what your team already does every day.

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  First-person video

  The head-mounted camera films the work area and hands: the robot sees the task through a master's eyes.

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  Hand movements

  The videos yield data on how hands and fingers move during work.

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  What's not in the data

  Sound and conversations. Faces in frame are blurred.

A smartphone and a head strap. Setup takes a few minutes per person.

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  Phone

  iPhone 12 or newer, or a modern Android. We'll check your team's models before you start.

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  Head strap

  Goes on your forehead, with the camera facing your hands. Both hands stay free.

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  Lighting

  Daylight or ordinary ceiling lights are enough.

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  First steps

  We'll show you how to start recording and what counts. We stay in touch after launch.

No. The camera is the employee’s own smartphone. The only extra item is a head strap.

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  Head straps

  You order the head straps, and their cost is refunded to you after 10 accepted hours.

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  Before the first recording

  The employee installs the app, signs in with your company code and confirms consent and documents in the app.

You need a smartphone with a wide-angle camera, with a field of view of 100° or more. All iPhones from the 12 onwards and about 70 Android models work.

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  iPhone

  All models from iPhone 12 onwards.

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  Samsung

  Galaxy S10–S26, Note 10 and Note 20, Z Flip 3 and 5–7, Z Fold 4–7, A16, A23, A33, A51–A57, A72, M23, M31, XCover Pro.

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  Google and others

  Pixel 7 Pro, 7a, 8, 8 Pro, 8a, 9, 9 Pro, 9 Pro XL, 9a, 10, 10 Pro. Motorola Razr Ultra (2025).

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  Not on the list?

  The app checks the camera itself on first launch. We'll check your team's phone models before you start.

Usually not: recording goes straight into the app and is uploaded over the internet right away.

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  No internet

  There is an offline mode. Then you need about 20 GB of free storage for 6–8 hours of recording.

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  Once you are back online

  Recordings upload automatically as soon as the phone is connected again.

Yes. A person can also record as a private individual through the app. The contract and payment are then directly between them and the partner.

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  Rate for individuals

  Up to 12 zł per accepted hour when recording at home and up to 37 zł for regular work outside the home.

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  Your employee

  Can additionally record at home. They handle those recordings themselves, separately from your business. The same recordings are never paid twice.

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  Someone who is not on staff

  Wants to record at your place but is not your employee? Send us their name and e-mail: the partner will sign a contract with them directly, with no obligations for your business.

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  Taxes

  Private individuals pay them themselves. Pupils and students under 26 pay no tax or contributions within the statutory limits.

UMELA Labs is a partner programme. We help businesses join the collection of videos used to train robots.

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  The money doesn't go through us

  The contract and payments go directly between your business and the technology partner.

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  What we do

  We explain, run the numbers for your business, help with paperwork and setup, and stay in touch.

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  In your language

  We speak Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and English. We understand how your business works and will help you roll this out safely, profitably and smoothly.