Paste a market. The world answers.
Ask the World connects your questions to people near relevant locations. They send observations and evidence, and approved answers earn the listed reward.
On the test network today. Every amount here is test money.
scope_market polymarket.com/event/will-tesla-launch-robotaxis-in-california…
Market: Will Tesla launch robotaxis in California by December 31?
Venue: polymarket · closes 2027-01-01
Rules (the venue's words): resolves Yes if Tesla publicly launches a self-driving taxi service in California…
How to draft checks for this market:
- Observe only. Never act on what the market is about.
- Each check: what a stranger does, where, how many answers, pay, and the feed it beats.
Some questions need local observations.
Ask people who can visit the location.
How a plan works
An illustrative plan, minute by minute: what the trader's agent saw, and what a phone near Union Square saw.
Draft the checks. See the price.
Your agent drafts the observations to request, the locations and the number of answers. Review the reward, review fees and limitations before funding the plan.
Your agent draft_plan
c1 · photo · Photograph the kerb outside the Tesla showroom: are there marked bays for robotaxi pickups? No faces.
where: Union Square, San Francisco (within 400 m)
2 answers at $0.50 + $0.35 review = $1.70 · open 24 h
beats: Tesla's own announcements, which lag the kerb by weeks.
Cannot tell you: whether California's permit arrives before December 31.
Fund it once.
One confirmation with the exact total, one transfer. The network posts the ask and holds the money until answers check out.
Your agent fund_plan confirm "$1.70"
Funded plan will-tesla-launch-robotaxis-in-cali-…: $1.70 sent.
The network posts its ask over the next few minutes, and pings the people near each place.
Nearby people receive the ask.
Subscribers near the location receive a message with an answer link reserved for them for 30 minutes.
A phone near Union Square Ask the WorldSomeone wants to know, near Union Square, San Francisco:
Photograph the kerb outside the Tesla showroom: are there marked bays for robotaxi pickups? No faces.
Pays $0.50 if your answer is approved. Answer on this page (the link is yours for 30 minutes):
test.openhands.network/p/…
Send an observation and evidence
The link opens the ask on Openhands. Allow your location, take the photo or type what you see, and send. No sign-up to answer.
A phone near Union Square Photograph the kerb outside the Tesla showroom: are there marked bays for robotaxi pickups? No faces.
$0.50 per approved answer
kerb.jpg120 m from Union Square
Send answerChecked in about a minute.
Automated checks compare the evidence with the location and time requirements. An AI reviewer checks whether the answer addresses the question. Approval releases payment. Rejected answers receive no reward.
The decisions - Taken within 400 m of the place
- The light fits the hour there
- It answers the question
Approved. $0.50 paid in the same step.
The other answer: taken 900 m away. Not approved, nothing paid.
View answers and decisions
The plan page links to each answer, its evidence and its review decision. You can export the results as a file.
Your agent plan_status will-tesla-launch-robotaxis-in-cali-…
Asks: 1 of 1 posted · 2 answers in · 1 approved
Money: $1.70 funded · $0.50 paid to people so far
Receipts and export: test.openhands.network/plan/…
Save access to your rewards
The bot tells you what you earned and where it is. Save your account once, and every answer after that pays the same place.
A phone near Union Square Ask the WorldApproved. Your answer to "Photograph the kerb outside the Tesla showroom…" earned $0.50.
To keep it, open this in the same browser you answered in, and save the account (one tap).
Reclaim unused funds
When the asks close, the poster can reclaim funds that are not needed for pending answers. Use the plan's close action to return them to the account that funded the asks.
At close, a bigger plan (illustrative) - Funded
- $200.00
- Spent on answers that held up
- $182.00
- Sent back to you
- $18.00
Observations must not affect the outcome
- Nothing that changes what a market is about.
- Nobody near what settles it: no sensor, no gauge, no official count.
- No polling places, no in-play sport, no conflict zones.
- No faces, nothing private, nobody followed.
A plan that asks for any of these is refused before it is stored, and before a cent moves.
Start an observation plan
- 1
Connect your agent
Add the asks plugin to Claude Code or Codex, or the asks MCP server to Cursor or any MCP client. One line.
- 2
Paste a market
Any Polymarket or Kalshi link.
scope_marketreads it and says what a person could check. - 3
Approve the plan
draft_planprices every line.fund_plansends the total once, after you confirm it. - 4
Follow the results
plan_statusand the plan's page show every answer. What isn't spent comes back at close.
The four plan tools ship with the next release of @ixo/asks-mcp.
Earn rewards for local observations
- 1
Open the bot
@asktheworld_bot on Telegram, and send /start. WhatsApp is next.
- 2
Share your location once
We keep a rough area, about 1.2 by 0.6 km, never the point you shared.
- 3
Answer when it's near
At most five asks a day, only close to you. Tap, look, send.
- 4
Keep what you earn
Approved answers pay in about a minute. Save your account once and it all lands in one place.
/pause for a day, /stop to leave and delete everything.
Need a local observation?
Draft a plan with your coding agent.