Get paid like the expert you are.

Lunchbreak connects the people and firms who do technical work with the teams building frontier AI. Businesses license historical engineering and research records. Experts are paid to review, test and teach models in their field. In both cases, AI learns from how real work gets done.

It depends on your field, credentials and the project. Open engineering and CAD programs pay $40 to $160 an hour. Life sciences programs pay $70 to $150, physical sciences $75 to $140, and medical programs up to $200. Your exact rate is confirmed in writing before you start. Every program lists its rate on the open programs page.

You need a degree in your field and at least two years of professional practice, or an advanced degree with active research experience. After you apply, you complete a short assessment in your specialty, about 20 minutes, conducted online. No prior AI experience is needed.

You might critique a model-generated drawing for GD&T errors, check whether a grasp that works in simulation would hold up on real hardware, write a hard problem that a model gets wrong, grade an analysis of microscopy data, or explain step by step how you would design an assay. Projects are remote and run from a few weeks to several months.

Weekly, by direct deposit, for approved hours. You will see your rate and payment terms before accepting any project.

Generally, you need at least two years of operations, 20 or more employees at some point, earned revenue, and clear rights to the records. Firms that are operating, winding down, or already closed can all qualify.

We look at how deep and complete the record is: years of history, peak headcount, revision history, the reasoning captured in reviews and notebooks, and how scarce the domain is. A sample review turns your estimate into a written offer. Try the estimator.

You do. We license specific usage rights defined in your agreement. You keep ownership of the records and can continue to use them however you like.

Yes. Names, emails, and client and sponsor identifiers are removed automatically before any person reviews a file. A specialist then checks for anything a pattern can miss, like a client name inside a part number, and you approve the anonymized dataset before it moves.

Three ways. As reasoning examples that show step by step how an expert reached a decision. As evaluations: hard, graded tasks drawn from real work that measure whether a model can do the job. And as practice environments, simulated workspaces built from real tickets and files where models learn multi-step technical work.

It is never published or shown to anyone outside the license, never resold beyond the uses you agree to, never used to identify, profile or contact people, and never used for advertising or marketing.

Yes. You choose the systems, folders and date ranges. You can exclude any project, client or record, and you review the anonymized dataset before it is approved.

Yes. We do not license patient-level data or records from hospitals, clinics, care delivery or routine diagnostics, and we do not accept ITAR or EAR controlled technical data. In life sciences we work with research records: discovery programmes, protocols, methods and experimental results. We will tell you early if a dataset cannot be used.

You can stop at any point before signing. We halt processing and delete everything you shared.

New York. We work with firms and experts in the United States, Canada, the UK and the EU, with more regions opening through 2027.