We've Been Building This for a Year.
Then “Rent-a-Human” Went Viral.

In early 2025, we started W3DO with a simple idea: AI is powerful, but it can't physically exist in the world. We wanted to build the bridge — the right way.

The Original Vision

We weren't thinking about “renting humans.” We were thinking about problems. Real problems that AI couldn't solve alone:

• Verifying that a business actually exists at an address
• Taking a photo of a storefront for an AI trying to update its database
• Making a phone call to confirm an appointment
• Organizing local wellness classes that algorithms couldn't facilitate
• Connecting newcomers to cities with trusted local services

The point was never to commoditize human labor. It was to empower people with skills to solve problems that matter.

Then Came “Rent-a-Human”

On February 2nd, 2026, RentAHuman.ai launched. Within days, 70,000 people signed up to “list themselves” for AI agents to hire. The headlines wrote themselves: “AI Can Now Rent Human Bodies.” It went viral.

The framing was exactly what we had spent a year trying to avoid: treating people as API endpoints, gig workers to be dispatched, resources to be allocated.

Why It Matters

Words shape reality. When you “rent” someone, they're a commodity. When you “connect a solver to a problem,” they're a professional with agency.

We believe the future of AI + human collaboration should be:

• Problem-first: Start with what needs solving, not who's available
• Community-validated: Let people vote on what matters
• Solver-empowering: Give humans meaningful work, not just gigs
• Intention-driven: Someone cares about the outcome

We're Still Here

A year of building. The vision hasn't changed. If anything, watching “rent-a-human” go viral this week has made us more committed to the alternative.

Problems don't solve themselves. But the solution isn't to “rent” people. It's to connect the right solvers with the right problems.