How much do your multimodal vendor services cost?
We believe in highly transparent, task-specific pricing rather than opaque vendor contracts. Because multimodal needs vary drastically, we price by the modality and complexity required. For instance, high-tier LLM Math and Coding RLHF is priced at $18/hr, while standard STEM Generalist annotation is $12/hr. For specific formatting, Road Lane mapping costs $3/km, Dense Captioning is $6/hr, and 3D Indoor Scene scans are $100/scan. Additionally, our all-in-one Abaka Forge platform operates on a simple credit system at just $0.20 USD per credit, ensuring you only pay for the specific processing power and human intelligence your frontier models actually consume.
How fast can you deliver fully synchronized multimodal datasets?
Speed is a core advantage of partnering with Abaka AI. Thanks to our extensive global network of over 1 million annotators and the powerful automation of the Abaka Forge platform, we significantly accelerate traditional delivery timelines. While complex 3D LiDAR or massive video spatial reasoning projects depend on volume, we consistently drive a 70% reduction in overall preprocessing time compared to legacy pipelines. In most engagements, we establish custom collection guidelines within the first three days, complete pipeline calibration by week two, and scale to maximum throughput rapidly, processing up to 500 files per day per annotator.
Which multimodal formats and annotations do your pipelines support?
We support a fully comprehensive range of modalities designed specifically for frontier AI and embodied robotics. Our pipelines handle everything from complex Text (JSON, XML) and Audio (WAV, MP3) to high-fidelity Image (COCO, YOLO) and Video (MP4, Frame Sequences). Furthermore, we specialize in highly technical physical data, including 3D/4D Point Clouds (PCD, PLY) and complex LiDAR plus Camera fusion (ROS Bag). Whether you require dense bounding boxes, detailed semantic segmentation, or nuanced speaker diarization, our Abaka Forge platform ensures every output is perfectly synchronized and properly formatted for immediate ingestion into your training systems.
How do you maintain quality control across different data modalities?
Maintaining synchronization and alignment across diverse modalities is incredibly challenging, but our multi-layer QA protocols ensure exceptional reliability. We enforce a strict 99% accuracy standard across all collected and annotated data. To achieve this, we rely heavily on vertically specialized, scholar-grade domain experts rather than crowdsourced generalists. We complement this human intelligence with ongoing cross-modal validation and model-as-judge automated checks within Abaka Forge. This rigorous, redundant oversight effectively eliminates the quality decay often seen in fragmented pipelines, guaranteeing your models receive flawlessly aligned text, video, and sensory inputs.
What compliance and security frameworks protect our proprietary AI models?
Data security and intellectual property protection are the foundational pillars of our operations. We operate strictly under comprehensive compliance frameworks, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and CCPA. When processing your sensitive multimodal feeds, we utilize fully segregated secure pipelines to prevent any cross-contamination or unauthorized access. We guarantee total IP provenance, ensuring there is 0% copyright risk on any organically collected data. Furthermore, we enforce strict Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) across all facilities, ensuring your proprietary architecture and raw training assets remain entirely confidential and insulated from enterprise vulnerabilities.
Can you source and annotate multimodal data in multiple languages?
Yes, deep cultural and linguistic diversity is essential for training robust foundation models. We actively source and process multimodal data across more than 50 countries worldwide. This expansive global footprint allows us to capture authentic, localized text, rich conversational audio, and culturally specific video interactions. Our network of specialized annotators fluently handles complex multilingual tasks, including nuanced translation, regional sentiment analysis, and culturally aware RLHF. By injecting this localized human intelligence into your datasets, we help you eliminate regional bias and ensure your models perform exceptionally well across international markets.
Why should we choose Abaka AI over fragmented, single-modality data vendors?
Patching together separate vendors for text, image, and LiDAR inevitably leads to massive compliance friction, misaligned taxonomies, and severe quality decay. As an integrated multimodal vendor, Abaka AI completely eliminates these operational bottlenecks. We consolidate your entire pipeline—from 360-degree real-world capture to scholar-grade RLHF—onto our unified Abaka Forge platform. Crucially, we are a trustworthy data partner with no VC acquisition pressure; we never build models that compete with yours. Your data remains exclusively yours, expertly forged by a profitable partner entirely focused on advancing your frontier AI.
How do you handle changes to complex multimodal annotation guidelines?
Agility is absolutely critical when iterating on frontier AI architectures. If your data requirements or taxonomic guidelines shift during a project, we adapt seamlessly. Because we manage everything centrally through the Abaka Forge platform, we can push global guideline updates to our annotator pods instantly. Our dedicated project managers work closely with your engineering team to recalibrate multi-layer QA rubrics without halting production. This flexible, hands-on approach ensures your training data continuously aligns with your evolving model parameters, maintaining high innovation velocity even as project scopes drastically change.
Do you offer pilot programs to validate your multimodal capabilities?
Absolutely. We strongly encourage initiating our partnerships with a rigorous pilot program. During the first few days of engagement, we collaborate closely with your engineering team to design a targeted scope covering your most complex modalities—such as interleaving text with 3D point clouds. We deploy a select cohort of our scholar-grade annotators to process this initial batch on Abaka Forge. This pilot serves to calibrate our multi-layer QA standards, perfectly align our output formats with your ingest requirements, and tangibly prove our 99% accuracy guarantee before scaling up.
Who ultimately owns the multimodal datasets generated during our engagement?
You retain absolute, undisputed ownership of every single data point, annotation, and metadata tag we generate for you. We operate under a strict policy: your data is exclusively yours. It is never repurposed, resold, or shared to enrich other clients' models. We pride ourselves on being a completely neutral, trustworthy data partner. Because we never build AI models that compete with our customers, you can scale your foundation and embodied AI architectures with complete confidence, knowing your intellectual property and training datasets are fiercely protected and fully siloed.
Do we need to license third-party tools to process your multimodal data?
No third-party licensing is required when you partner with us. We handle the entire lifecycle natively through Abaka Forge, our proprietary, all-in-one data forging platform. Abaka Forge seamlessly unifies collection, automated cleaning, precise annotation, and production-ready formatting. By leveraging advanced large-model automation natively within the platform, we accelerate operations by up to 50x compared to standard software. If you require specialized formats like ROS Bags for LiDAR or custom JSONL structures for RLHF, Abaka Forge exports them flawlessly, effectively eliminating your need for expensive external integration tools.
Is there a minimum volume requirement for your multimodal vendor services?
While our infrastructure is explicitly designed to handle the massive volume requirements of frontier model labs—processing millions of complex multimodal pairs seamlessly—we are highly flexible. We support projects ranging from highly specialized, low-volume pilot studies focused on advanced reasoning evaluations, to planetary-scale, multi-year geospatial data collection efforts. We tailor our engagement models to fit your specific needs, whether through project-based contracts, long-term retainers, or embedded talent. Our elastic scalability ensures you receive the precise amount of data necessary to hit your next developmental milestone efficiently.