Expert data and research for frontier AI

Human data
for frontier AI

Built for complex AI challenges at scale.
Trusted by the teams leading AI innovation.

30+
Years in AI data
1M+
Vetted contributors
80%
Of leading LLM builders
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What we deliver

Data products for modern AI development

One partner across training, alignment, and evaluation, from code and text to image, video, speech, and sensor data.

Why Appen

Rigor built into every stage

Accuracy at scale comes from who does the work, and how the quality process is engineered.

01

Methodology Refined Over Decades

Data pipelines and quality processes proven across successive generations of AI model architectures.

02

Calibrated, Auditable Quality

Contributor calibration against gold-standard examples, inter-annotator agreement measurement, multi-round independent review, and statistical sampling of every dataset.

03

Global Reach, Real Dialects

A vetted contributor network captures the code-switching, accents, and cultural context generic datasets systematically underrepresent.

04

Configurable to Your Program

Datasets, modalities, taxonomies, and QA workflows configured around how your program actually runs.

30+
Years of AI data leadership
1M+
Vetted contributors
235+
Languages & dialects
170+
Countries reached
80%
Of leading LLM builders are customers
How we work

Who does the work, and how you can check it

Every program runs with a named delivery lead and specialist annotators matched to your modality and domain, so you can see who is making quality decisions and trace how they were made.

How an engagement runs Four stages: 1 Scope and design, 2 Pilot, 3 Scale, 4 QA and delivery. Quality gates you can inspect at every stage, not only in a final report. HOW AN ENGAGEMENT RUNS 1234 Scope & designPilotScaleQA & delivery Quality gates you can inspect at every stage, not only in a final report.
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Named delivery lead

One point of contact accountable for scope, timeline, and quality across your program.

02

Specialist teams by domain

Annotators selected for direct experience with your data type and subject matter.

03

Pilot before you scale

Every engagement starts with a scoped dataset to prove out quality and workflow fit.

04

Delivery on your terms

Datasets handed off in the format and integration method your pipeline already uses.

Voices from AI leaders

Partners on the hardest data problems

Appen’s experience with data across the AI lifecycle will be a critical step forward for helping enterprises accelerate building, deploying and adoption of customizable AI, bringing AI to each and every industry.
Hemant Dhulla
Global Head of NVIDIA AI Software
Reliable AI evaluation starts with high-quality data, and we’re excited to partner with Appen to launch this new track in the Open ASR Leaderboard.
Eric Bezzam
Audio ML Engineer, Hugging Face · Open ASR Leaderboard, May 2026