How much does it cost to hire expert annotators?
Our pricing is highly transparent and extremely competitive, based strictly on the required domain expertise. For specialized human intelligence, we charge predictable hourly rates: LLM Math/Coding experts are $18/hr, general STEM specialists are $12/hr, and Image Editing is $8/hr. For autonomous driving, we securely label road lanes at just $3/km. We also offer a clear evaluation framework, such as Red Teaming at $8/eval. There are absolutely no hidden management fees.
How quickly can you deploy an embedded talent team?
We operate with exceptional rapid agility. During Day 0–3, we immediately match your project with specialized scholars pulled directly from our network. By Week 1–2, we establish secure pipelines and complete intensive initial pilots to calibrate accuracy. You can realistically expect a fully functional, highly scalable annotation pipeline producing production-ready data within just two to three weeks of engagement.
What modalities and data formats do your experts support?
Through the unified Abaka Forge platform, our experts confidently handle all major data types: Text, Image, Video, 3D/4D Point Cloud, LiDAR + Camera fusion, Audio, and LLM RLHF. We seamlessly deliver annotations in widely accepted formats such as JSON, Parquet, CSV, XML, COCO, and PLY, ensuring completely smooth integration into your existing machine learning environment.
How do you guarantee 99% accuracy for complex tasks?
We strictly abandon generalist crowdsourcing in favor of a heavily vetted scholar-network. Every annotator is vertically specialized in domains like Medicine, Coding, or Science. We strictly cap maximum throughput at 500 files per day per annotator to completely eliminate cognitive fatigue. Combined with advanced Model-as-Judge and Human Evaluation frameworks, this rigorous quality control maintains a strict 99% accuracy threshold.
Is my proprietary foundation model data secure?
Absolutely. Security is entirely central to our operations. We maintain comprehensive SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications, alongside stringent GDPR and CCPA compliance. All annotation work occurs safely within segregated, highly secure pipelines protected by strict NDAs. We ensure complete intellectual property safety, guaranteeing 0% copyright risk on all collected and labeled data.
Do you provide native multilingual annotators?
Yes. Our expert workforce securely spans over 50 countries, providing true native fluency and exceptionally deep cultural comprehension across dozens of global languages. This vast reach allows us to perfectly capture regional idioms, localized sentiment, and highly specific conversational nuances necessary for training highly effective global chatbots and instruction-following models.
Why choose Abaka AI over traditional labeling services?
Unlike standard vendors, we act as a truly trustworthy partner for frontier AI. We are entirely self-funded, profitable, and completely independent of restrictive VC pressures. Crucially, we never build models that compete directly with our customers. Your data is never repurposed or resold. Furthermore, our exclusive focus on specialized, scholar-level talent permanently prevents the quality decay common with standard crowdsourcing platforms.
Can we adjust our annotation guidelines mid-project?
Yes, high agility is built directly into our workflow. We conduct intensive weekly review sessions to analyze throughput metrics and evaluate complex edge cases. As your foundation model continuously evolves, our highly dedicated project managers can rapidly adjust RL environments and annotation criteria, deploying updated instructions to the embedded experts instantly without causing significant pipeline delays.
Can we run a pilot before committing to a large team?
Certainly. We strictly recommend an initial pilot phase during Week 1–2 of our standard engagement. This allows our specialized annotators to perfectly calibrate against your specific multi-layer QAs and objective benchmarks. Only once we definitively meet your strict quality standards and achieve our 99% accuracy baseline do we elastically scale the workforce to full production volume.
Who owns the intellectual property of the annotations?
You retain absolute 100% ownership. We guarantee full IP provenance and an uncompromised 0% copyright risk on every dataset we touch. Your data is exclusively yours. Abaka AI will never reuse, resell, or share your highly proprietary training data, ensuring your massive internal AI investments remain completely protected from leakage.
Do we need our own annotation software to work with you?
No, you don't. While our highly adaptable experts can easily integrate into your proprietary software if necessary, we fully provide the Abaka Forge platform. This massive all-in-one tooling environment seamlessly handles collection, cleaning, annotation, and training. Leveraging powerful large-model automation, Abaka Forge securely accelerates processing times up to 50x faster than legacy toolsets.
Is there a minimum project size to hire expert annotators?
We exclusively support elastic scalability to precisely match your exact needs. Whether you require a specialized custom capture pod for a highly focused short-term evaluation or hundreds of embedded experts for massive continuous RLHF, we adapt dynamically. Our highly transparent credit system ($0.20 USD per credit) and hourly pricing models completely ensure efficiency for both small pilots and massive enterprise deployments.