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Desktop Professionals: AI Assistant Usage Study

Role overview

Summary

This study aims to gather real-world usage data on an AI desktop assistant's performance in professional workflows. Terac seeks full-time professionals to participate by using the assistant during their regular work hours, contributing to research that informs AI development.

Qualifications

  • Full-time professional who spends the entire workday on a computer.
  • Willingness to have your screen recorded during active work hours.
  • Ability to participate consistently for a minimum of 4 weeks.
  • Comfortable installing new background applications on your machine.

Responsibilities

  • Install and run a new AI desktop assistant on your primary work computer
  • Allow the software to record your screen while you perform your normal daily tasks
  • Maintain your typical professional schedule of roughly 40 hours per week for 4 or more weeks
  • Report any bugs or unusual behavior encountered while running the application

Key facts

  • Remote from: United States
  • Fixed term
  • AI Consultant
  • $10K / year
  • English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Personal Computers
  • Professionalism
  • Time Management

About the company

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Terac

  • Market Research
  • 11–50
Terac is an AI‑native research platform that sources participants, conducts human‑like interviews at scale, analyzes results, and pays out participants - delivering actionable insights in hours, not weeks. Product teams use Terac to run voice, video, and text interviews, concept and usability tests, and to build a living research repository they can query anytime. Our in‑house participant panel, quality controls, and self‑serve workflow mean faster cycles, higher‑quality participants, and insights that move the roadmap now, not next quarter.

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Job description

What We're Researching

We're running a paid study on how a new AI desktop assistant performs across various professional workflows. This research helps us understand how the tool interacts with everyday software and whether it genuinely improves daily productivity. The goal is to capture authentic, real-world usage data over an extended period of time.

How It Works

You will install and use our AI desktop assistant during your normal workday for 4 or more weeks. The software will run in the background and record your screen while you complete your usual professional tasks. You will be expected to maintain your typical schedule of about 40 hours per week while the tool captures your interactions. At the end of the study, you may be asked to provide brief feedback on your overall experience.

Who This Is For

We are looking for full-time professionals who spend their entire workday using a computer. We welcome software developers, project managers, data analysts, writers, and administrative specialists. You must be comfortable having your screen recorded continuously during your standard working hours.

What You'll Do

  • Install and run a new AI desktop assistant on your primary work computer

  • Allow the software to record your screen while you perform your normal daily tasks

  • Maintain your typical professional schedule of roughly 40 hours per week for 4 or more weeks

  • Report any bugs or unusual behavior encountered while running the application

Who Should Apply

  • Full-time professional who spends the entire workday on a computer

  • Willingness to have your screen recorded during active work hours

  • Ability to participate consistently for a minimum of 4 weeks

  • Comfortable installing new background applications on your machine

Compensation

$5 per hour

 

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About Terac

Terac is building the world's largest pool of vetted human experts for AI. Researchers, AI labs, and product teams use Terac to recruit, screen, and pay study participants across industries, languages, and skill sets.

 

Learn more at terac.com or on YouTube at @jointerac.

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