A beginner-friendly walkthrough of how money moves through a Starkworth-managed account, from task completion to your Wednesday payout.
Profit sharing sounds abstract until you see the money actually move. On Starkworth, an account generates Gross Earnings by completing annotation tasks on a third-party AI platform. Operating and management costs are deducted to arrive at Net Earnings, and that Net Earnings figure is what gets split according to the percentage in the Account Owner's signed agreement.
Annotators sit on a different track: rather than a percentage of Net Earnings, they're paid weekly based on their own task performance and input, as set out in their registration agreement. Both tracks share one thing in common — everyone gets paid on the same day, every Wednesday by 3:00 PM (CST).
Starkworth doesn't publish one fixed percentage for every Account Owner, because account type, platform, and management scope all vary. Instead, your exact split is confirmed with you individually and written into the agreement you sign — see Understanding Your Profit-Sharing Percentage for more on why.
Account Owners can request a weekly earnings summary at any time to see exactly how a given week's payout was calculated against their agreement. That request goes through Contact until it appears automatically on your Account Owner Dashboard.
Illustrative example — not a real customer case study
An account generates $1,000 in Gross Earnings for the week. After operating and management costs, Net Earnings come to $700. The Account Owner's agreement specifies their share of that $700, paid out the following Wednesday — while any Annotators who worked on the account are paid separately, based on their own performance that week.
No — the percentage is set individually per signed agreement, not published as one fixed public rate.
No. Annotators are paid based on task performance and input, not a share of Net Earnings — that structure is specific to Account Owners.
Operating and management costs are deducted from Gross Earnings first; your percentage applies to the remaining Net Earnings figure.
Account Owners can request a weekly earnings summary at any time — see Contact.
Only if both parties sign a written amendment — Starkworth can't change your agreed split unilaterally.
It's written into your individually signed profit-sharing agreement, available any time on the Account Owner Portal.
Review the full agreement, register as an Annotator, or chat with Mena.