Apply to Become a FangCheck Founding Expert

Thanks for your interest in helping make snake identification safer and more accurate. Tell us a bit about your background — this takes about 3-4 minutes.

Section 1

About You

Full name *

Email *

Location / State *

Current role / title

Affiliation / Institution

Section 2

Your Snake ID Experience

Region(s) of expertise *

How many years have you been identifying snakes? *

Links to your ID work / profile

Briefly describe your snake identification background *

Section 3

Approach to Uncertainty

When you're not sure about an identification, what do you do? *

I make my best guess

I flag it as uncertain and explain why

I ask for better photos / more info

It depends

There's no trick here — but at FangCheck, flagging uncertainty is always the right call. "I'm not sure" is a valued answer.

Section 4

Availability & Commitment

Roughly how much time could you contribute per week? *

Would you be open to having a public Founding Expert profile on our Experts page? *

Yes

Decide later

Section 5

Anything Else

Anything else you'd like us to know?

Full transparency: the founding expert role is volunteer to start, with per-review micro-payments beginning once FangCheck reaches revenue. By applying, you understand this. We'll review your application and get back to you by email.

I understand this is a volunteer role to start. *