How to apply to Claru

Who can join

• Be at least 18, or the age of majority where you live if that is higher, and able to sign a binding contract (Claru's Terms of Service).
• Live in a country the project accepts. Each project sets its own countries, your profile location decides which projects you can see, and using a VPN or a false country can get your account permanently suspended.
• For recording projects, a phone on that project's approved list. Each project names exact phone generations (Plus, Pro and Ultra variants count), and newer phones are not accepted automatically; the app blocks recording on an unsupported device.
• For head-mounted capture projects such as Residential Egocentric in Latin America, a head mount that keeps both hands in view; GoPros and action cameras are not allowed.
• A bank account in your own name that accepts international transfers. PayPal and Payoneer are not supported; if Claru's payment processor does not cover your country, you can use a US bank account in your name.
• For expert evaluation roles, real domain experience. The Legal Reasoning AI Response Evaluator role ($55-100/hr), for example, requires at least 3 years of litigation or substantive legal practice.
• The right to share everything you film: you must hold consent from every identifiable person in your footage (a parent or guardian's consent for minors) and keep records of it for at least 7 years after your last upload.

Step by step

1. 1

   Create your account

   Sign up at app.claru.ai with your correct email address and a secure password. If someone referred you, enter their referral code now: it cannot be added after the account is created.

2. 2

   Verify your email

   If you signed up with an email and password, nothing works until you click the verification link Claru emails you. The link expires after 24 hours; you can send a fresh one from your profile page.

3. 3

   Complete your profile

   Under My Profile, add your true country of residence (and state if you are in the US), up to 10 skills and 10 interests, and your native language. Claru uses these details to match you to projects, your location decides which projects you can see, and your account email cannot be changed later.

4. 4

   Work through the Getting Started checklist

   Your dashboard checklist has three steps: a five-slide tour, joining your first project, and adding your payout details. The payout step completes once your payout account is active, which is not always instant.

5. 5

   Find a project you can join

   Depending on your country, device and other profile details, you may be invited to projects automatically; public projects are open to anyone but often need a short qualification first. If a project does not appear, the usual reasons are an ineligible country, an incomplete profile, an unsupported phone, a missing assessment or a full project.

6. 6

   Pass the qualification if the project has one

   Activities Video and External Video Recording projects are locked until you pass: usually five multiple-choice questions and about 10 minutes, plus a short sample video for some projects. It is scored automatically, retakes are free and unlimited, and a pass keeps that project type unlocked.

7. 7

   Set up the recording app if the project uses one

   Some video projects record in the separate Minute app. Since October 12, 2026 you sign in to Minute with the email and password shown on your Claru project page, which only the website shows. Do not create your own Minute account, and stop using the old @supply.claru.ai login: recordings sent through it after October 12 may not be reviewed or paid.

8. 8

   Record to the brief

   For the Latin America Residential Egocentric project, recordings must be landscape, at least 2 minutes long, filmed from a head-mounted phone, show natural household activities and keep both hands visible for at least 95% of the clip. Every project's Getting Started Guide lists its own rules.

9. 9

   Wait for review, then get paid on Tuesday

   Videos are usually reviewed within 2 to 3 business days, not always in order, and only approved videos are paid. Videos approved before each week's cutoff are paid that Tuesday; later approvals roll into the next week.

Tips to get accepted

• Make sure your full name, tax ID and date of birth match exactly in Claru and at your bank, and that the account can receive international payments. Digital wallets such as Mercado Pago or Wise may reject Claru's transfers, so a traditional bank account is safer.
• Never use a VPN or pick a country you do not live in. Claru says false location information or bypassing location rules may get your account permanently suspended.
• Record only under the Claru account and organization shown on your project page. If you recorded under the wrong Minute account and have fewer than 5 approved hours, Claru cannot transfer those recordings.
• Do not delete and recreate your Minute profile if videos seem stuck: it breaks the link to videos pending review, and they stop moving for good.
• On classification tasks, open a task only when you can finish it: it is reclaimed about an hour after you open it. Reject a defective item (paid) rather than Skip it (unpaid, and the pay on that item is forfeited).
• Check the rate on the project page before you record. Pay changes: the Residential Egocentric base rate is $5/hour for uploads from October 9, 2026, with boosted tasks paying up to $10/hour, and milestone bonuses ended on September 9, 2026.