Who is a Jury Member?
Jury Members can be approved-talent freelancers, clients, core team members, investors, or other community members who are committed to and invested in the Braintrust Network. Jury Members volunteer to join a pool and commit to serving an opinion should one arise. Jury Members are asked to complete their volunteer status by completing a Braintrust Academy course and reading all the documentation.
The process before Jury Members are called:
Before Jury Members are engaged, claimants and disputants are strongly encouraged to work their conflict out themselves, without involving a formal process. A Jury Arbitrator is assigned to walk claimants and disputants through an early stage process of the program where claims and counterclaims can be exchanged and accepted. Should the disputant reject the claim, and the claimant reject the counterclaim, then an issue is escalated to the Jury.
In order to maintain decentralization, decisions cannot be made by Braintrust Core Team members. While Braintrust Core Team members are allowed to join the Jury Pool, they cannot serve as the majority participants. Braintrust core team members are not required to be called for each decision, but no more than one Jury Member CAN be a Braintrust Core team member.
The Jury Arbitrator is responsible for completing the case file and organizing the claim and counterclaims before being presented to the Jury members.
There are two steps to this process: Eyewitness Statements and Final Jury Decisions.
- Eyewitness Statements:
The Jury Arbitrator will review both the claim and the counterclaim and identify subjective statements. Subject statements might include something like “the talent should have been able to complete the required work in half the time invoiced, based on the skill set and experience level they presented.” The Jury Arbitrator will select three eyewitnesses from the Jury Member volunteer list to weigh in on the statements. The eyewitnesses will be selected based on the expertise (skills, industries, etc) listed on their Braintrust profiles. Selected eyewitnesses will be given the case file, both the claim and counterclaim, and a list of the subjective statements. Eyewitnesses will have three days to offer an opinion on the subjective statements. These statements will be added to the case file and sent to the Jury Members.
- Final Jury Decision
Based on the Eyewitness findings, the Jury Arbitrator can add a third resolution that the Jury Members can vote on. This third resolution is some middle ground between the two sides. This is used when both sides share a sizable amount of responsibility and the Jury Arbitrator believes there is an alternative option besides either the claimant or the disputant having their full sought resolution as an option.
If the Jury Arbitrator choses to add this option, then that option will be added to the case file and shared to the Jury Members.
Once the case file is completed with the claimant’s claim, the disputant’s counterclaim, additional optional statements (if provided), and eye witness statements, the jury will be selected.
Claimants and Disputants will have access to the Jury List and can each select a Jury Member to join the case. The Jury Arbitrator will randomly select a third Jury member.
The Jury will have access to all information related to the case including the original job description, talent’s proposals, and official offer. They will have three days to assess the case and make a final decision. The Jury Members will not know which other Jury Members are issuing judgements in the case until all results are received.
When the final decision is made by the Jury Members, the Jury Arbitrator will then move to close the case file.
Closing the Case:
Whenever a case is closed, regardless of the outcome, the Jury Arbitrator will write a final resolution to the case and notify the Braintrust Core team of any invoice changes that need to be made. The official case file will be kept in-tact and will be made accessible to Braintrust core team members and future Jury Arbitrators. In addition the Jury Arbitrator will also create a public version of the case file that excludes identifying details. These “washed” case files are available upon request.
BTRST Rewards for Jury Members / Jury Arbitrators:
As a THANK YOU for keeping Braintrust decentralized, you'll be granted these BTRST tokens:
- +5 BTRST tokens for raising your hand and completing the Jury Volunteer form! SIGN UP HERE
- (This incentive lasts until Aug 31, 2021)
- (This incentive lasts until Aug 31, 2021)
- +50 BTRST tokens for completing a Braintrust Academy course! Every lesson you complete (this screen is one lesson) automatically adds +5 BTRST tokens to your wallet. 10 lessons x +5 BTRST = + 50 BTRST
- +100 BTRST tokens for participating as an Eyewitness or a Jury Member for a case. Each time you add your opinion, you get another reward. The Jury Arbitrator has been instructed to try to call on Jury Members equally across the Jury Pool.
- + 25 BTRST tokens for completing the Jury program. If you are an active member for the entire year term, we'll thank you with +25 BTRST for sticking with us. This means you must respond to the Jury Arbitrator when called to serve and submit your judgments within 3 days.
- + 300 BTRST tokens for each case in which you participate as a Jury Arbitrator.