How much does it cost to evaluate models on complex professional tasks?
Our pricing is highly transparent and based strictly on the required level of domain expertise, ensuring you only pay for the quality you need. For example, evaluating Defensive Coding tasks costs $15/eval, Red Teaming is $8/eval, Creative Writing is $6/eval, and assessing Math Capabilities is $12/eval. We also offer standard LLM Math/Coding annotation at $18/hr and STEM Generalist support at $12/hr. This per-evaluation or hourly model provides highly competitive rates compared to hiring full-time internal experts, keeping your budget fully optimized.
How long does it take to set up and complete these evaluations?
We move exceptionally fast to keep pace with frontier AI development. Initial scoping and rubric calibration typically take just Day 0–3. By Week 1–2, we have onboarded and aligned our scholar-network experts to your specific tasks. Full evaluation execution begins by Week 2–3, allowing us to deliver thousands of head-to-head expert comparisons in as little as three weeks. We also maintain ongoing, on-demand capture pods to continuously stress-test your models as you iterate, ensuring zero delay in your aggressive release schedules.
What modalities and deliverable formats do you support?
The Abaka Forge platform is built to handle all major data types necessary for evaluating real-world economic tasks. We comprehensively cover Text, Image, Video, Audio, 3D/4D Point Cloud, and LiDAR + Camera fusion. Our output formats are entirely customizable to fit your pipeline, ranging from annotated JSON and CSV documents to multi-modal COCO formats, timestamped MP4 metadata, and ROS Bags. Whether your AI is generating a complex financial spreadsheet or spatial video reasoning, we capture and grade the outputs seamlessly.
How do you ensure the accuracy of complex economic task evaluations?
Standard annotators struggle with tasks highlighted in OpenAI GDPval News. To guarantee a 99% accuracy rate, we exclusively deploy our scholar-network of professionals—including doctors, lawyers, and engineers—who possess deep, specialized domain knowledge. Our robust QA process involves a multi-layer review system, head-to-head human comparisons, and strict adherence to our 6-dim evaluation framework. Furthermore, our evaluators max out at 500 files per day to prevent fatigue, ensuring every complex deliverable receives the meticulous, expert scrutiny it deserves.
How do you secure highly sensitive, proprietary model outputs?
Security and intellectual property protection are our top priorities. We operate completely within SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified environments, ensuring strict compliance with GDPR and CCPA regulations. All evaluations are conducted in fully segregated secure pipelines under stringent NDAs. Your proprietary model checkpoints and the generated professional deliverables are never exposed to public crowdsourcing platforms. With Abaka AI, you maintain full IP provenance and benefit from a 0% copyright risk on all data handled by our experts.
Can you evaluate models on tasks in languages other than English?
Absolutely. Real-world economic value is global, and your models must reflect that. We source our specialized evaluators from over 50+ countries, allowing us to conduct rigorous model evaluations and benchmarking across dozens of languages. From assessing Multilingual TTS at $7/hr to grading translated legal briefs and localized customer support conversations, our native-speaking professionals ensure that your AI comprehends and generates culturally accurate, highly nuanced deliverables for international enterprise markets, maintaining our strict 99% accuracy standard globally.
How does Abaka AI compare to standard crowdsourcing platforms?
Standard crowdsourcing platforms rely on anonymous, low-tier gig workers who lack the expertise to evaluate complex, multi-hour professional deliverables. These platforms often suffer from high quality decay and massive IP risks. In contrast, Abaka AI provides a curated scholar-network of vetted industry professionals. We operate securely under SOC 2 and ISO 27001 standards, guarantee 0% copyright risk, and never build models that compete with you. We are a dedicated, trustworthy data partner for frontier AI, not a generic micro-task broker.
How do you handle changes to grading rubrics during an evaluation?
Agility is core to our process. If your engineering team updates the model checkpoint or refines the evaluation criteria based on early feedback, we adapt instantly. During our weekly synchronization meetings, we review the Alignment, Bias, and Factuality metrics. We can quickly update the instructions in the Abaka Forge platform and retrain our expert evaluators without disrupting your overall timeline. This flexible, collaborative approach ensures that the human oversight perfectly matches your evolving evaluation requirements, minimizing friction and keeping your iterations fast.
Can we run a pilot program before committing to a large evaluation?
Yes, we highly encourage pilot programs to ensure perfect alignment with your benchmarking goals. During the initial Week 1–2 phase, we run a targeted batch of pilot evaluations through our Abaka Forge platform. This allows your team to review the grading accuracy, the nuance of the expert feedback, and our adherence to your specific formatting requirements. Once you are completely satisfied with the 99% accurate baseline delivered by our scholar-network, we seamlessly scale up to full evaluation execution.
Who owns the rights to the evaluation data generated?
You own 100% of the evaluation data and the associated IP. We strictly operate as a trustworthy data partner for your frontier AI initiatives. Your proprietary datasets, model outputs, and all graded deliverables are exclusively yours. We never repurpose, resell, or share your data with other clients, and we never use your data to train competing foundation models. You receive full IP provenance with every delivery, completely eliminating any copyright risk and ensuring your enterprise assets are fiercely protected.
What tooling do you use to manage these complex evaluations?
All of our workflows are powered by the Abaka Forge platform, an all-in-one proprietary system designed specifically for frontier AI data collection, cleaning, and annotation. The platform supports every data type—from intricate 3D/4D Point Clouds and Video to complex Text deliverables. It leverages large-model automation to streamline the grading process, making evaluations up to 50x faster. It also provides a seamless interface for our experts to execute tool-calling and multi-step reasoning assessments efficiently and securely, ensuring maximum throughput.
Is there a minimum volume required for expert evaluations?
While we specialize in scaling up to thousands of complex evaluations per week, we are highly flexible and accommodate projects of varying sizes. Whether you need a small, highly targeted batch of Defensive Coding evaluations at $15/eval or a massive, continuous pipeline of head-to-head human comparisons, our on-demand capture pods and elastic scaling capabilities can adapt. We are committed to supporting frontier model labs at every stage of development, ensuring you get the exact volume of expert oversight required.
