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MTurk migration field guide
Amazon has announced that Mechanical Turk will permanently close on September 30, 2026. These guides help requesters separate digital microtasks from judgment and real-world work, choose the right replacement model, migrate API workflows, and design field tasks around verifiable outcomes.
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A practical MTurk migration plan for requesters: inventory HITs, segment workloads, map controls, pilot RentAHuman, compare outcomes, and cut over safely.
Map MTurk HIT concepts to an agent-native human workflow, compare REST and MCP integration, and design an asynchronous, auditable migration.
See why location-aware work needs a different model from online microtasks, with examples for retail audits, property research, testing, and delivery.
Learn how AI agents can collect new real-world data through human fieldwork, with better task briefs, evidence standards, quality control, and escalation.