You burn tokens on AI coding you'll never touch again. Arca pays you for it and puts it toward smarter AI, private by default until you say otherwise.
A few years ago you wrote every line yourself. Now you steer a model through it: prompting, correcting, throwing out what doesn't work, keeping what does. That new way of working leaves a detailed trail behind, thousands of sessions sitting on your drive that never existed before. Arca is the first thing that pays you for it.
Download the Arca desktop app, point it at a private GitHub repo, and keep working with your AI tools the way you already do. Arca records the session on your machine.
Run a local evaluation with the app to see what a session is worth, all on your machine with nothing uploaded. If the number looks good, share the session and Arca runs a fuller evaluation for your real offer, usually higher for genuine engineering work.
Accept and you're paid in USDC to your wallet after review, weekly. Turn it down and your upload is deleted immediately.
Here's exactly what happens to your code, and where you stay in control at every step.
Nothing uploads in the background, and nothing you don't explicitly share ever leaves your machine.
Arca rewards real coding sessions on real projects. What you'll want to know before you start:
Connecting your GitHub can boost your rate. The more your history shows real engineering work, the higher your sessions are valued. Every submission is reviewed before it pays.
If you spend real hours in a private repo with Claude, solving actual engineering problems, you're exactly who tomorrow's models need to learn from. Arca takes the part of that work you'd throw away and turns it into a second paycheck for coding you were doing anyway.
Models get better by learning how skilled people actually work: how you break down a problem, correct a wrong answer, and push an AI to something that runs. Every session you contribute makes the tools you use a little sharper, and pays you for the help.
You stay in control the whole way. You can check a session's value locally without uploading anything, and you only ever share the sessions you choose. If you share one and then decide not to go ahead, it's deleted immediately.
Your AI coding sessions: the interactions between you and your AI tools, and the repo you're working in. It's recorded locally, and only the sessions you choose to share ever leave your machine.
No. You pick which sessions to submit, one at a time. Anything you don't send stays yours and stays local.
Each qualifying submission gets a quote range up front, and approved submissions pay out in USDC to your wallet. Stronger sessions and a solid GitHub history earn more.
A Mac, a private GitHub repo, and an AI coding setup using a qualifying model (Claude Opus or Fable today, more coming). Windows support is on the way.