# Work (/docs/primitives/work) **Work** is a unit of value to be done — in the API. It is cargo-agnostic by design: a lead, a support ticket, an AI task, an order, an inference request. The cargo changes; the machine does not. A `Routable` carries a free-form type string and a payload, not a hardcoded schema, so one pipeline clears every kind of work. Work enters a **pool** — a market with rules: eligibility criteria, capacity budgets, SLA targets, dedup windows, quality gates, and a market mechanism. Before it is priced or routed, the trust plane runs — fraud scoring, deduplication, consent validation, quality scoring — so bad work is rejected or flagged before it costs anyone money. shipping — `Routable` and pools exist today. ## Lifecycle [#lifecycle] When work is cleared through a market, its session moves through `MarketSessionStatus`: The market is created and workers are being solicited to bid. Bids arrive and are cleared by the session's algorithm. A winner is selected and the routing decision is committed. Off-ramps when no clearing is possible. ## Where to go deeper [#where-to-go-deeper] How a routable event flows through registered stages to a concrete assignment. Configuring the markets that work enters. The trust checks that run before work is priced.