Roles

Three Ways to Earn in the AI Data Economy

The Forge enables three types of contributors - Factory Creators, Farmers & Ambassadors - to generate revenue while building the world's first decentralized liquid market for AI training data.


1. Factory Creators

Designers of Tokenized Training Datasets

Who they are:

Individuals, teams, or businesses with workflows ideas they want to capture as training datasets, tokenize & monetize through burn-to-download IP access.

What they do:

  1. Launch a Factory via The Forge App to collect specific workflow demonstrations

  2. Define data collection objectives and skills they want to capture

  3. Fund the Factory with reward tokens to attract quality contributors

  4. Tokenize their datasets via bonding curve launches with burn-to-download IP access

Revenue Streams:

  • Creator Allocation — Receive tokens equal to the burn-to-download threshold amount

  • Trading Royalties — 0.25% volume fees from all secondary market activity forever

  • Burn-to-Download Control - Set % of supply to burn to download IP

  • Meta-Dataset Inclusion — Priority allocations in curated premium bundles


2. Farmers

Contributors Who Generate High-Quality Tokenized Data

Who they are:

Skilled contributors who get paid to perform, record, and submit task demonstrations to create valuable training data that becomes tokenized assets for computer-use agents.

What they do:

  • Browse available Factories and select tasks matching their skills

  • Record screen-based workflows using The Forge app

  • Submit demonstrations for AI-powered quality validation

  • Earn rewards based on the quality of each contribution

Revenue Streams:

  • Quality-Based Rewards — Higher demonstration scores = Higher immediate payments

  • Leveling — Experienced contributors gain access to premium Factories

  • Skill Premiums — Specialized demonstrations command higher rates

  • XP Boosts— Burn $CLONES tokens for faster progression & access to premium opportunities

  • Playground Access — Top farmers get priority in strategic partnership campaigns


3. Ambassadors

Community Growth Facilitators

Who they are:

Community members who help grow the ecosystem by onboarding new Factory Creators & Farmers while earning from specific referral streams.

What they do:

  • Refer new participants to The Forge ecosystem

  • Earn from targeted community growth through referral rewards on specific platform activities

  • Scale through $CLONES staking to unlock higher commission rates (1-5%)

  • Build valuable networks of active contributors

Ambassador Revenue Streams (Updated Scope):

  • Farmer Referral Commissions : 1-5% commission on all earnings from farmers you referred taken from platform fee, for life

  • Factory Creator Commissions : 1-5% commission on funding volumes from creators you referred taken from platform fee, for life

  • Staking Tier Benefits — Higher $CLONES staking supply unlock better commission rates

  • Network Growth Rewards — Long-term compound earnings as referred users stay active

Commission Structure:

Stake Tier

$CLONES Required

Commission Rate

Earnings Potential

Tier 1

0.1% supply

1%

Baseline

Tier 2

0.2% supply

2%

2x Baseline

Tier 3

0.3% supply

3%

3x Baseline

Tier 4

0.4% supply

4%

4x Baseline

Tier 5

0.5% supply

5%

5x Maximum

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