Lunchbreak licenses CAD and life sciences records from the firms that created them, and pays the engineers and scientists who can explain them. You keep ownership. AI learns how physical work actually gets done.
Engineer or scientist? Estimate your earningsTwo ways to work with us, one standard of care. Every record is anonymized, every rate is agreed in writing, and you can walk away before anything is signed.
Point us to the archive: PDM vaults, network drives, lab notebooks, project channels. You pick the folders and date ranges, and nothing moves without your sign-off.
Names, emails, client identifiers and patient details are removed before anyone reviews a file. You see exactly what was taken out.
Revision history, design rationale and test results are what make a record valuable. A sample review turns your estimate into a written offer.
Sign a license, keep ownership, and receive payment to your business account. You can stop at any point before signing.
Share your CV, field and availability. Engineers, designers and scientists at every stage, from senior practitioners to postdocs.
A short assessment in your specialty, about 20 minutes, online. Your personal details are removed before your work reaches a client.
Critique model output, write problems that stump it, and explain how an expert would actually do the work.
Your rate is confirmed in writing before you start. Remote, flexible, and built around your existing work.
General-purpose data brokers buy volume. We specialize in fields where a single revision note or failed assay carries years of judgment.
Native models, drawings, revision history and the review threads that explain every change. Mechanical, product, tooling and architectural firms hold the most complete record anywhere of how physical things get designed.
Lab notebooks, protocols, instrument output and imaging, along with the reasoning that connected one experiment to the next. Biotech, CROs, diagnostics and academic labs generate exactly the context models lack.
Materials, chemistry, energy, semiconductors and civil infrastructure. If your work is precise and your records are deep, we want to talk.
See all fieldsDesign options, coordination models and the RFIs between them. The decisions that turned a massing study into a building.
For architecture firmsYour records describe your clients, your people and your methods. We treat them that way, with controls you can see and terms you can read.
We license defined usage rights. The records stay yours.
Identifiers are removed before any person reviews a file.
Use is limited to training and evaluation, under contract.
Before signing, we halt and delete on request.
Lunchbreak connects the people and firms who do technical work with the teams building frontier AI. Businesses license historical engineering and research records. Experts are paid to review, test and teach models in their field. In both cases, AI learns from how real work gets done.
AI research labs and enterprise teams training models for engineering, design and scientific work. Every engagement is covered by confidentiality and permitted-use terms. Nothing you share is published.
Records are anonymized before anyone reviews them, with names, emails, client identifiers and patient details removed. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is logged, and you approve the final dataset before it leaves our hands. See security.
New York. We work with firms and experts in the United States, Canada, the UK and the EU, with more regions opening through 2027.
It depends on your field, credentials and the project. Engineering and CAD projects typically pay $60 to $150 an hour. Life sciences projects that need a PhD or MD often pay $90 to $200 an hour. Your exact rate is confirmed in writing before you start. Try the earnings estimator.
You need a degree in your field and at least two years of professional practice, or an advanced degree with active research experience. After you apply, you complete a short assessment in your specialty, about 20 minutes, conducted online. No prior AI experience is needed.
You might critique a model-generated drawing for GD&T errors, write a hard problem that a model gets wrong, grade an analysis of microscopy data, or explain step by step how you would design an assay. Projects are remote and run from a few weeks to several months.
Most experts work 5 to 20 hours a week, on their own schedule, around project deadlines. Some projects have capacity for full-time work.
Weekly, by direct deposit, for approved hours. You will see your rate and payment terms before accepting any project.
No. Applying makes you eligible. We match you when a project needs your background, and your profile stays active for future work.
Generally, you need at least one year of operations, ten or more employees at some point, earned revenue, and clear rights to the records. Firms that are operating, winding down, or already closed can all qualify.
We look at how deep and complete the record is: years of history, peak headcount, revision history, the reasoning captured in reviews and notebooks, and how scarce the domain is. A sample review turns your estimate into a written offer. Try the estimator.
You do. We license specific usage rights defined in your agreement. You keep ownership of the records and can continue to use them however you like.
Yes. You choose the systems, folders and date ranges. You can exclude any project, client or record, and you review the anonymized dataset before it is approved.
No. Data is never published. Use is limited to model training and evaluation under confidentiality and permitted-use terms.
We do not accept ITAR or EAR controlled technical data. Clinical records are only accepted after de-identification that meets HIPAA standards, and we will tell you if a dataset cannot be used.
You can stop at any point before signing. We halt processing and delete everything you shared.
A two-minute estimate for your archive, or for your hours. No commitment, and nothing leaves your hands until you say so.