For businesses
The QwestLab Real-World Network
Your business can earn from the work it already does. Robots are being taught physical work by watching people do it — and a lot of that work happens in commercial spaces like yours. Your team films their own shift on their own phone. They get paid per clip we accept, and your business earns from hosting it. Same prep, same picking, same service — recorded.
5 minutes · costs nothing · nothing filmed until you sign
From the team behind Kumu, built with robotics and Physical AI labs that need footage of real work — not staged demos.
Your staff earn
Whoever films is paid for every clip that passes review — money on top of the shift they were already working.
Your business earns
Hosting earns the business too. What that's worth is different for every site, so it's agreed with you in writing — nothing standard, nothing assumed.
The work doesn't change
No crew, no setup, no staged scenes. A phone on a head strap while the ordinary job gets done.
A network of real workplaces
QwestLab works with AI and robotics companies that need video of real physical work, recorded from the worker's point of view. The Real-World Network is where that footage comes from: real businesses — not studios — that have agreed to host recording. QwestLab qualifies the people, sets the capture rules, reviews every clip and handles the data, rights and delivery side. The business decides what's allowed on its own site.
If people at your business make, move, prepare, clean, repair or organise things, it probably fits:
- Restaurants
- Commercial kitchens
- Hotels & housekeeping
- Warehouses & logistics
- Factories & assembly
- Workshops & repair
- Garages
- Farms
- Retail & shops
- Cleaning & laundry
What your staff would actually record
The camera points down at the hands doing the task — that framing is what the data is for, and it is why faces and customers stay out of it. Illustrations of the viewpoint, not photographs of QwestLab sites or customers.
How it works
You say yes, in writing
We agree exactly what may be filmed, where and when. Until that's signed, our system blocks filming at your business outright.
Your staff film their shift
Someone who already works there wears a phone mount and records the ordinary task — plating, picking, restocking. No crew, no set-up, no staged scenes.
Everyone gets paid
They're paid for every clip that passes review. Your business earns for hosting — terms worked out with you, case by case, before filming.
Why it's worth money: commercial footage is worth more to robotics buyers than the same task filmed at home, because it needed a business to agree to it. There's no standard rate and no set percentage — every site, task mix and volume is different, so your side is put in writing before any filming, not after. And it costs you nothing: no fees, no equipment to buy, and you can stop any time.
Task footage, not surveillance
Nothing is installed at your site and nothing is streamed from it. A recording is a short clip of one agreed task — a few minutes, shot by the person doing the work, from their own point of view, only inside the boundaries you've set. Every clip is reviewed before it counts, and clips that break the rules are rejected. No wall cameras, no live feeds, no recording of customers, colleagues or quiet corners.
You set the boundaries
Which areas
The kitchen line is in; the office, the till and the dining room can be out. Zones are agreed in writing, room by room.
Which tasks
You approve the list — plating, prepping, restocking. Anything not on it isn't recorded.
Which people
Taking part is voluntary for staff, and your agreement can name exactly who may record. Nobody films without signing up and qualifying first.
When
Recording windows are yours to set — a quiet prep shift rather than the Friday rush.
And the hard rules hold across the whole network: contributors must keep faces and bystanders out of frame, our system blocks filming at any business until written permission is on record — and you can stop hosting at any time.
Join the Real-World Network
About five minutes, and you can stop and come back. We ask what work happens at your site, who'd be filming it, and who can give permission — so the conversation that follows is about which tasks are worth recording at your site and what terms would look like for you, rather than another form.
Businesses that come on board are recognised as Environment Partners — and the earliest as Founding Environment Partners.
Nothing is agreed by sending it, and nothing is filmed until permission is signed and on record.
Work at a business but don't run it? Sign up as a contributor — you can tell us about the place you work inside your Passport, and we'll ask whoever runs it before any work is offered. Think they'd want in? Send them this page.