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Data & Research
Research
What the platforms take, what earners are left with, and why those two figures rarely match — published as datasets, frameworks and a category paper.
Most platform earners are running a real business on a spreadsheet, because the software built for one employer and one payslip cannot read income arriving from six places at once. Four places to start:
Statistics
Citable, structured datasets on platform fees, workforce size, earnings retention and the gross-to-net gap. Built for citation and free to embed.
Open StatisticsMarket Reports
Five reports on how people earn across platforms, income types and currencies: what they are paid, what they keep, and what the systems around them miss. The headline findings are free to read and to cite.
Open Market ReportsTransparency Series
Nine investigations into the platforms people earn from: what each one takes, what it asks for before it pays, and how it decides who earns.
Open Transparency SeriesFrameworks
The models the Platform Income Operating System™ is built on. Two foundation layers that build the financial picture, and two destination layers that act on it.
Open Frameworks