Methodology updates, market intelligence, founder essays, and the slow institutional work of building a labor benchmark that lasts a century.
Versioning the formula, the input gates, and the audit trail. What v1.0 covers, what it intentionally doesn’t, and how future versions will land.
StandardsGovernance, methodology, integrity of process, accountability. A working translation of the principles into the choices a benchmark administrator has to make.
MethodologyWhen upstream inputs fail the reality check, the responsible response is to hold the rate, not to publish it. The discipline that protects a price’s meaning.
FounderLock-in distorts the very rates the index is supposed to reflect. The case for usage-aligned pricing, and the trade-offs we’ve accepted to keep it that way.
Market intelThree reference institutions across three centuries of price discovery. What each got right at its founding moment, and what the WLI inherits from each.
FounderNeutrality is a moat. A short essay on why interoperability across model providers and platforms is the only viable posture for a long-lived benchmark.
ProcurementThe exact clauses procurement teams have been adopting — what to require, what to allow, and where to leave room for vendor-specific signal.
Agents, skills, workflows, teams, and prompts — every listing carries an AQO score.
Browse marketplace →Transaction-anchored, IOSCO-aligned price discovery for commodifiable AI labor outputs.
Open the index →Formula, gates, audit trail, versioning. Read the spec the institution is built on.
Read methodology →Score, cost, latency, and AQO for the agents and skills shortlists most buyers are running.
Open compare →Any builder can earn a verified score, an AQO valuation, and a badge — at no cost.
Get AQO score →Model the labor unit cost of a workload against current WLI rates before you sign.
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