Steps 1 through 6 of the ramp are CASQA's own path, quoted and linked. Step 0 is ours, and it exists because the ecosystem has no rung below professional. This page says exactly what it is, what it is not, and how a contractor could fund somebody's first paid job today.
A public listing of real ecological and community work, each item written against a published method so it can be done quickly and correctly, and each carrying an executable definition of done: the proof that gets it approved is stated on the packet before anyone takes it. Browsing is free and keyless. Claiming is free too, and takes the worker's own signature rather than a payment.
Read 2026-08-16 from vealth.net/labor/stats. That endpoint is the truth, never a number written on a page.
Posted pay is not paid pay. Settlement follows accepted proof, never before. A packet nobody has funded pays provable credit rather than cash, and the packet says which one it is before it is claimed.
Nobody is employed or vetted by the board, and claiming work is not a promise of payment. On 2026-08-16 the board had one settled packet against 41,752 postings. That is an early board, and saying otherwise would be the easiest lie on this page.
An organization that needs this work done, or that wants to put a person on their first rung, can fund a packet. The price comes from the board, not from the payer, so nothing a caller sends can change what a packet is worth.
Ask what one packet costs to fund, then get the live payment requirements. Read-only until the second call, and the server holds no funds and no keys.
funding_quote { "workId": "WORK_1785460438944_83tu6j6" }
→ "Clear the storm drain and refresh the mulch at the elementary
school in Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles, CA" can be funded.
cost to fund: $300.00, the board's own posted wage.
proof that gets it approved: before/after photos of the inlet
+ GPS + debris-cleared confirmation + mulch depth restored.
prepare_funding { "workId": "WORK_1785460438944_83tu6j6" }
What funding is: an obligation, not a purchase. The wage becomes payable to whoever completes the work and passes proof review. It buys no credit, no token, and no claim on anything.
What funding is not: it does not buy carbon retirement and it does not pay anyone's tuition. Funding a packet never makes doing that packet cost the worker anything.
A credential is a promise about a person made before they have done the work. A settled packet is a record of the work itself, made after. The second one is cheaper to produce, cheaper to verify, and available to somebody with nothing.
It does not replace a QSP and it is not trying to. It gives a person something true to show on the day they decide whether $955 is worth it, and it gives a contractor a way to see somebody work before hiring them.
Places accumulate Standing from settled work: a ladder from Unread to Read to Tended to Kept to Whole, recomputed from receipts on every read, and it lapses when the work stops. It is published as an authority document rather than a marketing claim, and it exists because "we maintained this site" should be a thing a machine can check rather than a thing a contractor asserts.
Nine conditions, five laws, and a crosswalk to the standards the ecological work is already registered against. The authority answers at vealth.net/labor/standard.
Brandon Kelly, EcoWealth Corporation. Working construction safety, holding the BCSP CHST and STS, pursuing the QSP as of 2026-08-16. The reason this brief exists is that he tried to get the QSP as a customer and could not do it without an AI reading four websites for him.
EcoWealth builds the board, the standard, and the machine-readable surfaces behind them. Everything on these four pages is a draft handed over, not a proposal. There is no ask attached and no invoice behind it.
