How does pricing work for a multimodal provider like Abaka?
We offer transparent, highly competitive pricing based on the specific modality and task complexity, entirely free from VC-inflated markups. For example, Image+Text Pairs for foundation models run at $2.80 per unit, while Dense Captioning is priced around $6/hr. For automation tasks, Abaka Forge credits are just $0.20 USD each, ensuring clear forecasting without hidden fees. By consolidating your diverse pipelines into one unified system, you eliminate the compounding overhead of multi-vendor management, ensuring your R&D budget is spent efficiently on model performance rather than redundant platform fees.
What is the typical turnaround time for multimodal data delivery?
Our timeline elastically scales with your specific project needs and data complexity. Initial scoping, custom capture pod deployment, and pilot batch annotation typically take just 1–3 weeks. Once the pilot is approved by your engineering team, our massive global network of over 1 million annotators activates, enabling maximum throughput of up to 500 files per day per annotator. This highly automated, parallelized approach ensures rapid, ongoing delivery of massive multi-terabyte datasets, allowing your foundation models to hit the market significantly faster than relying on traditional single-modality vendors.
Which data formats and modalities do you support?
As a comprehensive multimodal provider, we support every major data type required for frontier AI development. Our platform seamlessly processes Text, LLM RLHF, Image, Video, 3D/4D Point Cloud, LiDAR + Camera fusion, and Audio formats natively within Abaka Forge. Upon completion, we export your highly accurate datasets directly to standard industry formats including JSON, COCO, Parquet, ROS Bags, and specialized HuggingFace formats, allowing our data to plug instantly into your proprietary training architecture without any additional preprocessing required by your engineering team.
How do you ensure high accuracy across mixed data types?
We guarantee up to 99% accuracy across complex mixed modalities through a rigorous, multi-layer quality assurance process. We heavily integrate our proprietary 50x large-model automation with meticulous human-in-the-loop review. Unlike generalized crowd-sourcing platforms, our 1 million+ scholar-network annotators specialize in highly specific modalities and technical domains, ensuring that interleaved image reasoning and intricate multi-step logic follow instructions perfectly. This specialized workforce accurately resolves contextual dependencies that generalized workers frequently miss, drastically reducing your error rates.
Is my proprietary data secure during the annotation process?
Absolutely. Data security is our foundational pillar as a trustworthy data partner for frontier AI. We operate under stringent, fully certified SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and CCPA compliances. Your proprietary data flows exclusively through fully segregated secure pipelines under exceptionally strict NDAs, guaranteeing complete confidentiality at all times. Furthermore, our self-funded business model ensures we have no incentive to compromise your IP, meaning your highly sensitive enterprise data is never repurposed, resold, or used to train competing models.
Can you handle multimodal datasets in multiple languages?
Yes, our globally distributed workforce spans over 50 countries, allowing us to provide verified native-level proficiency for complex text, audio, and visual tasks. We routinely build high-fidelity Multilingual TTS datasets, localized reasoning pairs, and culturally nuanced visual search annotations for global frontier models. This international reach empowers our scholar-network experts to accurately capture linguistic and cultural nuances across multiple modalities simultaneously, making Abaka an ideal partner for foundation models intended for global enterprise deployment.
Why use Abaka AI over multiple specialized vendors?
Patching together multiple separate vendors for your text, image, and video needs consistently causes a 70% increase in engineering preprocessing time and introduces severe cross-modal alignment errors. As a genuinely unified multimodal provider, we drastically streamline your entire collection and annotation pipeline inside the robust Abaka Forge platform. This seamless, single-partner integration eliminates crippling volume walls, significantly lowers overhead, ensures uniform high-quality evaluation methodologies, and ultimately accelerates your model's time-to-production while maintaining 0% copyright risk across all gathered data types.
How do you handle adjustments to labeling guidelines mid-project?
We purposefully maintain strict agility throughout the entire lifecycle of your project via weekly synchronization meetings with your dedicated expert project manager. If your frontier model requires a sudden pivot in reasoning evaluation criteria, or an adjustment to 3D bounding box logic mid-batch, we instantly recalibrate our automated tooling and rapidly update our annotator instructions. This transparent, highly responsive communication ensures that the massive datasets we deliver continue to perfectly match your evolving AI architecture without incurring punishing restart delays.
Do you offer pilot programs before full-scale deployment?
Yes, we strongly encourage concentrated pilot phases for all complex multimodal projects. During the vital first 1–2 weeks of engagement, we collaboratively set up custom Abaka Forge tooling, refine labeling guidelines, and deliver an initial batch for your specialized engineering team to review. This crucial step guarantees absolute perfect alignment in cross-modal accuracy, formatting, and overall quality before we elastically scale up to full enterprise production using our vast network of vertically specialized scholar-level annotators.
Who owns the datasets produced by Abaka AI?
You retain absolute 100% ownership over all datasets produced and annotated by Abaka AI. We guarantee full IP provenance and an uncompromising 0% copyright risk on all collected multimodal data. As your trustworthy data partner, we abide by a strict ethical framework: your data remains exclusively yours forever. It is never repurposed, resold, shared with third parties, or used in any capacity to train competing internal models. You maintain total legal and operational control over your proprietary AI assets.
Do we need our own annotation software to work with you?
No internal software development is required. By partnering with Abaka, you instantly gain full access to Abaka Forge, our proprietary, all-in-one platform engineered specifically for complex multimodal collection, rapid cleaning, precise annotation, and comprehensive model evaluation. It natively handles every critical data type—from intricate 3D/4D point clouds to dense text—and reliably speeds up preprocessing pipelines by up to 50x. This allows your engineering team to avoid building costly internal tooling and focus entirely on advancing foundation model architecture.
What is the minimum volume required to engage your services?
We are uniquely positioned to elastically scale our resources to meet your precise requirements, ranging from targeted, small-scale pilot datasets to massive foundation model pre-training corpora. Whether you need a highly specialized batch of complex reasoning evaluations or tens of millions of interleaved image-text pairs, our infrastructure adapts to your scale seamlessly. We recommend starting with a concentrated pilot to calibrate our Abaka Forge tooling and annotator guidelines. Once aligned, we can instantly expand throughput without sacrificing the 99% accuracy or strict compliance standards your models demand.