How is your human in the loop AI service priced?
Our pricing is highly transparent and competitive, determined entirely by the complexity of the domain. For example, expert LLM Math/Coding annotations are $18/hr, general STEM reviews are $12/hr, Image Editing is $8/hr, and sophisticated Red Teaming evaluations run at $8/eval. We bill strictly for active human evaluation time, eliminating hidden fees.
What is the typical turnaround time for an evaluation project?
We mobilize exceptionally fast. Scoping and strict compliance checks take just 3 days, followed by network assembly and calibration in 1–2 weeks. Once the pilot is validated, our large-model automation capabilities enable a maximum throughput of 500 files per day per annotator, vastly accelerating your final delivery.
What data modalities and output formats do you support?
Our expert reviewers confidently handle text, audio, image, video, 3D/4D point clouds, and comprehensive LLM RLHF. Outputs can be formatted precisely to match your pipeline's needs via Abaka Forge, including custom JSON sequences, COCO, YOLO, VOC, ROS Bag, and native HuggingFace dataset structures.
How do you guarantee annotation accuracy for frontier AI?
We enforce a rigorous, multi-layer quality assurance protocol, targeting a strict 99% baseline accuracy. Our human-in-the-loop reviewers are exclusively verified scholars and domain specialists who are constantly calibrated and cross-referenced against your golden datasets to ensure perfectly flawless evaluations.
How do you secure highly sensitive model outputs and proprietary data?
Security is foundational to our operations. We maintain strict SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications. All human-in-the-loop workflows run through heavily segregated secure pipelines, backed by exhaustive NDAs, full GDPR/CCPA compliance, and enterprise-grade infrastructure to actively protect your intellectual property.
Do you offer multilingual human review capabilities?
Yes, absolutely. We source highly vetted native-speaking experts from over 50 distinct countries. This robust global network is essential for localized sentiment analysis, multilingual text-to-speech validation, and successfully capturing cultural nuance in globally deployed conversational AI models.
How does Abaka differ from standard crowdsourcing platforms?
Unlike platforms that rely heavily on unvetted general micro-taskers, Abaka exclusively deploys highly verified domain experts—including PhDs in math, law, and medicine. Furthermore, as a self-funded enterprise, we never build competing AI models or secretly repurpose your proprietary data for internal use.
Can we adjust our evaluation rubrics mid-project?
Certainly. We supply dedicated project managers who communicate continuously with your ML engineering team. If model behaviors unexpectedly shift or novel edge cases emerge during testing, we rapidly recalibrate our annotators and dynamically update the evaluation rubrics within Abaka Forge.
Do you offer pilot programs before full-scale deployment?
Yes. We execute a comprehensive, highly controlled pilot run during Weeks 2–3 of your onboarding process. This allows your team to thoroughly review initial human feedback, precisely refine instructions, and absolutely ensure our accuracy standards meet your rigorous expectations before scaling up.
Who owns the rights to the human feedback and annotations?
You retain 100% exclusive ownership of all human feedback, architectural corrections, and annotated data. We provide fully documented IP provenance boasting 0% copyright risk, and strictly guarantee your data remains yours alone—it is never resold, shared, or leveraged externally.
Do we need to provide our own annotation software?
No, you do not. We harness Abaka Forge, our highly proprietary, all-in-one platform for collection, cleaning, annotation, and training. It accelerates complex human workflows by up to 50x while effortlessly exporting data in formats native to your internal AI engineering pipelines.
What is the minimum project size you accept?
We remain highly adaptable to your precise operational needs. Whether you require a hyper-targeted red-teaming audit involving a dozen medical experts, or a massive, long-term foundation alignment project requiring thousands of concurrent annotators, our human network can scale to fit instantly.