@burrrata, I think the general sense is that, for most situations, there will be a “human in the loop” somewhere. When I bill for documentation work in Decred, it is actually evaluated using a process you could call reputation-based peer review. Other people in my domain (in this case other people that contribute to the docs) review my invoice, and if they think it’s too high, they can contest it (anonymously). I think this is smart, as the person that has the most information about how to value something is typically the person doing the work.