The Open Work Project
We're building the infrastructure, intelligence, and applications that make verified work performance data portable, accessible, and useful across the economy, starting with the frontline, frontier, and freelance workforces.
Marisol Alvarez
Patient Care Assistant
Northwestern Medicine · UChicago Medicine · Rush University System for Health · Care.com
Go from saying this...
I promise, I'm reliable
I promise, I'm responsive
I promise, I'm attentive
I promise, I'm trusted
One infrastructure. Multiple applications.
Open Work
Your work. Your record. Your future.
A portable performance profile that travels with you. Turn verified attendance, reliability, productivity, and experience into evidence of what you can do, wherever opportunity takes you.
Prove your performance. Own your reputation. Unlock opportunity.
Open Talent
Hire on evidence, not guesswork.
Discover, evaluate, and match talent using verified performance records. Go beyond résumés and traditional credentials to identify proven workers, recognize reliability, and make more informed hiring and staffing decisions.
Find proven talent. Make better matches. Hire with confidence.
Open Credit
See the worker beyond the credit score.
Access permissioned, verified work-performance records that supplement traditional credit information. Gain a more complete picture of employment stability, income consistency, and work history to inform lending decisions and expand access to credit.
Better information. More informed lending. Greater financial opportunity.
Open Housing
A fuller picture of every applicant.
Give rental applicants a way to share verified employment, income stability, and work histories. Supplement traditional screening with reliable, permissioned information that helps property managers evaluate applicants and workers demonstrate their ability to afford housing.
Verify employment. Understand income. Expand housing opportunity.
Open Underwriting
A more complete picture of risk.
Explore verified performance data as an additional source of underwriting intelligence. Where relevant and permitted, use reliable work histories and observable performance to inform risk assessment and develop more individualized insurance products.
Better data. More informed underwriting. More tailored coverage.
Open Insights
Understand how work really works.
Access privacy-preserving, aggregated performance intelligence to study labor markets, productivity, and economic mobility. Connect real-world work outcomes with employment patterns to generate new insights into how people work, advance, and create economic value.
Study performance. Understand labor markets. Advance research.
Open Skills
Make workforce development measurable.
Connect training and workforce development programs to verified workplace performance. Track employment outcomes, demonstrate program effectiveness, and help participants turn their skills, experience, and accomplishments into portable evidence of their capabilities.
Measure outcomes. Demonstrate impact. Build pathways to opportunity.
Open Benefits
Make benefits work across jobs.
Simplify eligibility verification with portable, permissioned employment and income records. Help workers navigate benefits across employers, contracts, and periods of unemployment while reducing administrative burdens for governments and benefits providers.
Verify eligibility. Simplify access. Support a mobile workforce.
Build the future of performance intelligence with us.
We're working with employers, staffing firms, lenders, and workers to develop the first applications of portable performance data.
We're also connecting with researchers, workforce developers, and institutions interested in exploring what performance intelligence could make possible across the economy.
Interested in building with us?
Whether you're a potential design partner, researcher, or collaborator, we'd like to hear from you.
