Expert-annotated data and demonstrations

Labels, annotations, written reasoning and worked examples produced by credentialed professionals.

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SpecificationWhat buyers and sellers agree on
Measured in
Items labeled or expert hours delivered.
Who buys
Labs and vertical AI companies building specialist capability.
Where it comes from
Professional services firms, specialist annotation vendors and expert networks.
Rights to clear
Assignment of rights in expert work product; confidentiality of buyer prompts.
Privacy
Experts must not use client or patient information.
Pricing signal
Priced per expert hour or per item, by profession and seniority.
In short
  • Expert-annotated data is labeled or written by people with verified professional skill, such as clinicians, lawyers, engineers or accountants.
  • Demonstrations show a model step by step how an expert completes a real task, including their reasoning.
  • Professional firms can supply this as a service using staff time, without sharing any client data.
  • Buyers check credentials, guidelines and quality-control sampling before they scale an order.

Two forms of expert data

  • Annotation. Experts label existing material: classify, extract, grade or correct.
  • Demonstration. Experts complete tasks from scratch and record their reasoning, which teaches models how the work is actually done.

Why professional firms are suppliers

Specialist AI teams need far more expert time than annotation vendors can recruit. Firms with senior staff and spare capacity can supply it under a services agreement, with clear rules that no client information is used.

Quality controls buyers expect

Credential checks, written guidelines, calibration rounds, double-blind review on a sample, and agreement rates reported with every delivery.

Questions

Does this involve sharing our client files?

No. Expert data work uses the buyer's tasks or synthetic material. Client information should never be used.

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Need expert-annotated data, or hold it?

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  • We reply to every enquiry within two working days.
  • No upfront fees for sellers
  • We never hold your raw data