Work with us
This register is deliberately narrow. It covers what GLP-1 sellers charge, who dispenses the drug, and what regulators have said about them — and it will not print a figure nobody checked. The people who work on it are contributors engaged per piece of work, not a newsroom.
Most of the work is unglamorous. Someone reads an FDA warning letter end to end and writes down what it actually alleges. Someone walks a seller’s intake until the price appears, screenshots it, and records the date. Someone reads a study and finds that the paper does not say what the press release said. If that sounds tedious rather than exciting, you may be the right person.
The one role that is genuinely open
Clinical reviewer · freelance, paid per article
We are looking for an MD, PharmD, NP, RN or RD with experience in obesity medicine, endocrinology or pharmacy to review drug and safety material before it publishes, and to say so plainly when a claim is overstated.
It is asynchronous, paid per article, and sized to sit beside a working clinical practice. Filling it changes the line at the top of every clinical article from “Editorially reviewed (not clinically reviewed)” to your name and credentials, linked to your contributor page. You would be putting your license behind it, so you get a veto, and we will not publish over your objection.
Write to us with the subject line “Clinical reviewer”. Tell us your credentials, the states you are licensed in, and one claim you have seen a weight-loss site make that you would not have let through.
Nothing else is open, and here is what happens if you write anyway
Everything else is engaged per piece of work, from a standing list of people we call when something needs doing — which is how everyone currently contributing started. Three kinds of note tend to lead somewhere:
- You can read a regulatory document. Enforcement actions, state pharmacy board minutes, 503B registration records, court filings. The skill is telling the difference between what a document alleges and what it establishes.
- You can price a market that hides its prices. Sellers quote a monthly figure that is not monthly, or a promotional rate that lapses. Finding the standing price usually means getting past an intake form and reading the checkout.
- You build things that watch for change. Price capture, diffing, structured data. TypeScript and Python. The interesting problems here are about knowing when a number quietly moved, not about scale.
What working here is actually like
Remote, asynchronous, no meetings. Engagements are scoped with a deliverable and a fee agreed up front. You will be asked for the source of every number you hand in, and a draft that cites a press release instead of the underlying paper comes back.
One rule matters more than the rest. Some of the sellers in this register pay us commission when a reader signs up, and those relationships can affect the order things appear in. They do not touch a score, a finding, or whether something damaging gets published. If you are ever asked to soften a review because of who is paying, the answer is no, and you should tell the founder to their face.
Getting in touch
Email careers@glpwatchdog.org. A short note beats a formal application: what you would work on, and one thing you have written or built. Our methodology and code of conduct set out the standards you would be held to.