Turn worker screenshots into bargaining-grade data

Right now a lot of gig-worker organizing runs on screenshots, exports, forwarded emails, and spreadsheets that were never meant to carry a serious bargaining case.

Coordinator

Advocacy group, union, or worker-led council

Participants

Gig workers sharing earnings and work data

Data value

Collective bargaining leverage, benchmarking, policy advocacy, eventually data revenue share back to workers.

MoneyLayer helps collectives turn that scattered evidence into a durable record: consent in place, member portability preserved, and reporting strong enough for bargaining, advocacy, and future worker-owned data programs.

What this looks like today

Members screenshot earnings pages, export CSVs, or forward weekly emails to an organizer's inbox. The organizer builds spreadsheets and PDFs to support bargaining or policy conversations.

The workers' own data is never organized at a level that could support either collective bargaining leverage or a data revenue share, even though both are on the table.

Members screenshot earnings pages, export CSVs, or forward weekly emails to an organizer's inbox.

Where the data value lives

• Bargaining leverage: real wage and cost data across a meaningful member cohort.
• Policy advocacy: numbers that hold up in city, state, and federal testimony.
• Member benchmarking: where a worker sits relative to the cohort.
• Consent-first data revenue share if a credible buyer emerges.
• Portable earnings records for lending and housing applications.

How MoneyLayer fits

1. Define the collective's data contract with members. What members submit, at what granularity, for what purposes. The collective owns the contract; MoneyLayer runs the workflow.
2. Ingest member-contributed work data with consent. Platform exports, screenshots with OCR, and structured self-report. Consent and scope are explicit per member.
3. Produce bargaining-grade rollups and member receipts. The collective uses the data for bargaining and advocacy. Members keep their own portable records and see how they compare.

Good fit / not yet

• Good fit: organized worker councils, unions, and advocacy nonprofits with an active bargaining or policy target.
• Good fit: collectives that have tried spreadsheet approaches and run into scale limits.
• Not yet: unorganized workers without a coordinator entity.
• Not yet: projects that treat worker data as a commodity rather than as worker property.

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