Web Researcher (AI Benchmarking)

About Us

Gramian Consultancy is a boutique consultancy specializing in IT professional services and engineering talent solutions. With a strong background in software engineering and leadership, we help companies build high-performing teams by matching them with professionals who truly fit their needs.

Role overview

Our client is building advanced evaluation benchmarks forfrontier AI browsing agents.

We are looking for highly skilledinvestigative researchers who can design research problems that remain difficult even for state-of-the-art AI systems with full web access. This is not a traditional subject-matter or content-writing role. The work is centered onopen-web investigation, evidence tracing, source validation, and benchmark construction.

You will begin from a verifiable fact, work backwards to construct a difficult research question, and document a complete, auditable evidence trail showing how the answer can be independently verified.

CONTRACT: Short-term freelance/contractor assignment, 8 weeka

COMMITMENT: 40 hours per week, at least 4 hours per day, including 4 hours overlap with PST

LOCATIONS: Remote, GLOBAL

Responsibilities

• Design challengingopen-web research problems for evaluating advanced AI browsing agents.
• Start from objectively verifiable facts and construct questions that make those facts difficult to discover.
• Build multi-step clue structures involving dates, people, places, organizations, works, events, records, and quantities.
• Ensure every clue is independently verifiable and subject to clear constraints.
• Research across government databases, institutional sources, archives, registries, and PDF documents.
• Produce completeevidence trails citing exact pages, tables, sections, or records.
• Record validation searches and document what obvious search approaches return.
• Test whether research questions remain difficult across multiple search attempts.
• Refine questions to eliminate ambiguity while preserving difficulty.
• Deliver structured, reproducible research documentation.

• Background inreference librarianship, archives, or special collections.
• Experience in investigative journalism or professional fact-checking.
• Experience withOSINT, due diligence, KYC, or investigative research.
• Background in patent, prior-art, or legal-discovery research.
• Experience with genealogy or historical records research.
• Experience with competitive quizzing, puzzle design, or puzzle-hunt construction.
• Familiarity withJSON or structured data formats.