Enterprise FAQ

Common questions about sponsoring, hiring, and validating with Nepher Enterprise.

General

What is Nepher Enterprise?

Nepher Enterprise is how companies engage with the Nepher Robotics platform — sponsoring tournaments and hackathons, discovering simulation-verified talent through the Verified Talent Pool, and validating robot policies through Nepher Verified or Policy Validation. See the Enterprise Overview.

What are the two enterprise pillars?

Hire & Solve — finding talent and solving concrete robotics problems — and Brand & Credibility — building visibility and earning a credibility signal for your technology. Most engagements map to one pillar, though sponsorship and verification often support both. See Hire & Solve and Brand & Credibility.

Who runs a sponsored tournament or hackathon — us or Nepher?

Nepher operates it. Your company sponsors and collaborates on the problem definition; Nepher's team designs the task, publishes it, and runs the competition — evaluation, judging, and reward distribution — on the platform's existing infrastructure. There is no self-serve tool for enterprises to create or administer a competition directly. See How engagement works.

How do we submit a request and get a reply?

Use Contact. Choose website replies (sign-in required; track under My requests) or email replies (no account required). Details in How engagement works.

Sponsorship & Rewards

If we sponsor a tournament, does our sponsor fee become the miner reward?

Not by default. Sponsor fees are recognized as enterprise revenue, separate from the miner or participant reward pool, unless the specific tournament or hackathon explicitly states that sponsor funds are being added to rewards. Check the published terms of your specific engagement. See Sponsored Tournaments.

Can we keep a sponsored engagement private?

Standard sponsored tournaments and hackathons publish results openly, the same as community-run ones. If you need a private, siloed engagement, say so in your contact request and see Private engagements.

Talent Pool

How do we get access to the Verified Talent Pool?

Request access from Talent Pool or Contact. A Nepher admin must approve before the pool lists talent. See Verified Talent Pool.

Can we see and contact anyone who's competed on Nepher?

No. Only individuals who opted into the pool via Opportunities appear. With pool visibility alone you see a display name; with Open to opportunities also on, you may see preferred work types and optional Profile contacts. See Opportunities & consent.

What do achievement badges mean?

Expert (1+ combined wins), Master (5+ combined wins), and Grandmaster (10+ combined wins), where wins combine both tournament and hackathon results. See Achievement Badges.

Nepher Verified

What does a Nepher Verified badge actually guarantee?

Nepher Verified means the policy passed the stated Nepher evaluation scope. It does not guarantee safety or performance in every real-world condition. Always check the specific scope — robot, environments, and metrics — that was evaluated. See Nepher Verified.

How is Nepher Verified different from Policy Validation?

Nepher Verified produces a public, citable certification with a published scope and pass/fail result. Policy Validation is a private assessment and results report intended to inform your own deployment decisions — you can optionally carry validation results into a formal Nepher Verified application. See Policy Validation.

Does verification expire?

Yes — a verification can move to expired if the underlying software versions or evaluation scope it was tested against are no longer current. Re-verification is required for a materially different robot, environment, or task. See Nepher Verified.

Getting Started

How do we start an engagement?

Visit https://nepher.ai/enterprise/contact and describe what you need — hiring, a sponsored competition, verification, or policy validation. Nepher's team will scope the right engagement and follow up.

Where can we learn more about the underlying platform?

See What is Nepher Robotics? for the platform overview, or the Enterprise Overview for a map of all enterprise-facing documentation.