Eat the Work describes companies that centralize and systematize the management of distributed labor, performing core parts of a professional's work so the professional can concentrate on more essential tasks.
An Eat the Work company is a technology-enabled service. Rather than selling software for professionals to operate themselves, it takes on a defined slice of their work, often breaking it into specialized tasks completed by an on-demand or decentralized workforce, and delivers the finished result. Companies eating the work span many professions:
- In Healthcare: 📝Robin Healthcare enables doctors to focus on their patients.
- In Software Development: 📝Crowdbotics enables creators to build with an on-demand workforce.
- In Accounting: 📝Weekly Accounting enables accountants to level up.
- In Finance: 📝Creator Fund enables companies to invest in their customers.
- In Estate Law: 📝Trust & Will enables people to effortlessly create estate plans.
- In IP Law: 📝Trademarkia enables creators to protect their ideas.
- In Transactional Law: 📝Legal Systems Development Company builds on Trademarkia to build a legal operating system.
- In Professional Writing: CoAuthor.one enables professionals to level up their stories.
- In Audio: 📝SpokenLayer produces and distributes short-form audio from written content.
- In Sales: 📝Broker Generator sets appointments between brokers looking for new agents and agents looking for a new broker.
Crowdbotics showed me that complex work, like building an application from a drawing, can be completed by a decentralized group of people. I believe a new economy will arise from the proliferation of micro-services and Eat the Work companies, and that there is a more equitable way to distribute ownership in it.