Web Researcher (AI Benchmarking)

Gramian Consultancy is a boutique consultancy specializing in IT professional services and engineering talent solutions. Their unique experience combines software engineering, technical recruiting, and business building to deliver top-quality recruiting, staff augmentation, and outsourcing services.

• Background in reference librarianship, archives, or special collections.
• Experience in investigative journalism or professional fact-checking.
• Experience with OSINT, 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 with JSON or structured data formats.

• Design challenging open-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 complete evidence 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.

Short-term freelance/contractor assignment for 8 weeks. Must work 40 hours per week with at least 4 hours overlap with PST timezone. Remote work accepted from global locations.