Post an idea. Break it into tasks. Track who earns what.
CoLabEx is a place where people team up to build ideas. You share an idea or pick up a task, get paid in cash, a share of ownership, or course credit, and everyone can see who did what.
A real CoLabEx project — this one's illustrative, but the layout, badges, and pay-per-task model are exactly what you'd see once you post your own.
What do you need?
Have a full idea, or just something specific you need done? Either way, someone here can help.
I have an idea to build
A product, a business, an app — post it and a project manager helps break it into real, valued tasks. No idea is too early.
Submit your ideaI just need something done
One specific task, remote or local — no project to set up first.
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People
Projects
Education
How it works
A freelance gig or a class project — set what it pays in: cash, equity, course credit, or nothing at all if you just want the PM tooling.
The project manager (or a student they choose) writes the tasks and gives each one a real value.
Work gets submitted, reviewed, and approved — only then does it go on the permanent record of who owns what. Nothing is ever guessed or changed afterward.
Where the money (or equity) actually goes
The default split on every project, whether a task pays in cash or equity — set once per project, always visible, never guessed after the fact.
Who this is for
One system, five ways to show up on it.
Freelancers
Claim open tasks solo, get reviewed, and build a public rating and portfolio from real, approved work — paid in cash, equity, or a mix, set before you ever claim it.
Learn more →Freelance teams
A standing group of independent freelancers who take on task work together — everyone stays their own contractor, but the team claims work and builds a shared rating as one.
Learn more →Companies
A private workspace for a real business — projects stay off the public Task Board by default until someone with authority pushes them public, reviewed the same as any other real-compensation project.
Learn more →Educators & institutions
Run a class through the exact same system. Instructors (and trusted student-PMs) manage real project work, sectioned by cohort, valued in course credit instead of cash — or build and publish a standalone course in the Education Center.
Learn more →Students
Work a cohort's real project tasks for course credit in a dedicated Student view — none of it mixed with any Freelancer, Team, or Company work you also do on the same account.
Learn more →What’s actually being built
Real, reviewed, live activity — not a mockup. See everything on the Network and Education Center pages.
Example projects
Example courses
Explain why the English colonies developed different economies and societies
By Jim Taliano · 0 enrolled
Use demand and supply to explain how prices and quantities are set
By Jim Taliano · 0 enrolled
Describe the structure of bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbial cells and how they are classified
By Jim Taliano · 0 enrolled
Common questions
See all FAQs →What is CoLabEx?
One system with two tracks. FREELANCE is real paid work — claim a task, get reviewed, get paid in cash, equity, or a mix. EDUCATION is cohort-based classwork — an instructor's students work through real project tasks for course credit. The underlying tables (projects, tasks, submissions, ratings) are the same for both; what differs is mostly vocabulary and who typically plays which role.
How do I get paid for a task?
Claim an open task from the Task Board, submit your work, and once the project's PM or instructor approves it, it's recorded as yours. A task's value is cash, an equity percentage, or course credit, set when the task was created — you can see which before you claim it.
Can a school or bootcamp use CoLabEx?
Yes — institutions register themselves the same way companies do, with a Primary administrator contact whose email needs to end in .edu, reviewed by a CoLabEx admin before it's linkable to a cohort. Once approved, an instructor can run a cohort's real classwork through the same project/task system the freelance track uses.