🌍 Passive Workers — preview & evidence

Private, current, cited research on your own computer — and an opt-in network of computers doing that work for each other. Measured on real hardware, 2026-06-14.

+2.50 / +3.00

council beats a frontier model (live web vs memory) on recent / breaking questions

+0.00

…and ties on stable knowledge (the honest control)

100%

cited claims grounded in their sources (5/5 verifiable, 86% overlap)

runs on your own models — no account, no per-query fee

Does it actually beat a frontier model? Only where it claims to.

Local council (live web) vs gpt-5-chat (answering from memory, no web by design), scored 0–10 vs curated references — scripts/eval_currency_gap.py --run:

question type	council (live web)	frontier (memory)	gap
static — currency irrelevant (control)	10.00	10.00	+0.00 (tie)
recent	5.00	2.50	+2.50
breaking ⚠ (n=2)	4.00	1.00	+3.00
overall	6.80	5.20	+1.60

Honest read: the static tie is the point — a 14–22B local council does not out-think a frontier model on stable knowledge. The win is currency, privacy, grounding, and cost. Small samples (recent n=4, breaking n=2), LLM grader, one reference per question — a real signal, not a league table. Full detail: BENEFIT.md.

See the real app

Screenshots of the live UI (Playwright, desktop + mobile) — all real: a real generated report, and a genuine single-node deployment where a brand-new operator joined with pw join and answered a real job (the operator mac AE even appears on the leaderboard with a real rep 5/10). At scale, the map and leaderboard fill out as more operators join.

Research desk — a real, cited, current report

research desk desktop — Desktop — live web report with [S#] citations

research desk mobile — Mobile — responsive

Marketplace — a global council deliberating

marketplace desktop — Desktop — a real job answered live (1 operator online), the council's answer shown

marketplace mobile — Mobile — stacked layout (live)

Operator dashboard — geo-verified nodes & leaderboard

dashboard desktop — Desktop — real operator on the leaderboard (mac AE, rep 5/10), ledger ✓ ok

Read a real report

The full sample (current US federal funds rate — 16 sources, dissent preserved): sample-report.md.