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Custom AI data collection and curation

The data your model has never seen, recorded by real people in the conditions your product ships into.

What ai data collection means here

Most model failures are collection failures. The set was gathered from whoever was available, in a quiet room, on a good phone, and the model meets none of those conditions in production.

We recruit against your spec rather than against our queue: language and dialect, age and gender bands, device, room, background noise. Every file arrives with a consent record and device metadata, so the dataset is auditable as well as diverse.

Recording sessions run to a written script and environment spec
Recording sessions run to a written script and environment spec

What we can take on

  • Speech collection

    Scripted, spontaneous, conversational, wake-word and in-car audio.

  • Image collection

    Faces, documents, retail shelves, storefronts and field photography.

  • Video collection

    Gestures, actions, in-cabin footage and 360 walkarounds.

  • Text and prompts

    Written prompts, responses and dialogue produced to a taxonomy.

  • Sensor and device

    IoT, accelerometer and LiDAR capture for on-device training.

  • Demographic quotas

    Recruitment held to age, gender, region and accent targets you set.

The types of ai data collection we run

The full breakdown, not the headline categories. Anything not on this list is a scoping call away.

Speech. Scripted monologue reads, Spontaneous conversation, Wake-word and voice-command utterances, In-car and in-cabin speech, Call-centre speech by industry, Doctor dictation and consultation audio.

Image. Facial imagery by region and expression, Selfie and ID document pairs, Printed and handwritten OCR, Receipts, invoices and price tags, Retail shelf and storefront photography, Field and site photography.

Video. Gesture and action clips, Driver and in-cabin monitoring footage, 360-degree vehicle walkarounds, Screen recordings with intent labels, Public-scene and crowd footage, Aerial and drone footage.

Text. Prompts and instructions, Multi-turn dialogue scripts, Domain-specific writing samples, Parallel translation pairs, Structured form and survey responses, Classification and intent examples.

Field capture in the conditions the model will face
Field capture in the conditions the model will face

The forms the data takes

What you actually receive: file types, structure and the metadata that travels with it.

Audio
Mono or stereo WAV and FLAC at the sample rate you specify, with per-speaker channel separation where the recording allows it.
Images
JPG, PNG or HEIC at the resolution you set, with EXIF stripped or kept as you require, plus device and lighting metadata.
Video
MP4 clips at a set frame rate and resolution, single or multi-camera, with scene, lighting and subject metadata.
Text
JSONL or CSV with prompts, replies and dialogue turns, tagged by taxonomy, language and writer profile.
Sensor streams
Accelerometer, gyroscope, GPS and LiDAR logs captured alongside audio or video for on-device and mobility models.
Metadata and consent
A manifest per batch listing every file, the contributor profile fields you approved, device, environment and the consent reference.

How the data is collected

From the first brief to the batch you receive, step by step.

  1. 01

    Recruited against your quota

    Contributors are sourced from our community and vendor partners against the language, dialect, age, gender, region and device targets in your spec, not from whoever is online.

  2. 02

    Captured on real devices

    People record on their own phones, laptops or cameras, in the rooms, streets and vehicles your product will meet. Device model, OS and environment are tagged on every file.

  3. 03

    Checked at the moment of capture

    The recorder rejects clipped, silent, blurred or off-script takes before they upload, so a contributor retries in seconds instead of being rejected days later.

  4. 04

    Consent recorded per file

    Each contributor accepts a project-specific consent form. The record travels with the item, and a deletion request removes the file from every later delivery.

  5. 05

    Reviewed by checks, then by people

    Automated QC runs first, then peer review and expert review on a sample set by the risk of the task. Rejected items go back to the contributor with the reason.

Browser recorder with live checks before upload
Browser recorder with live checks before upload

How a project runs

  1. 01

    Scoping call

    We agree volume, languages, demographic quotas, formats and what counts as a rejected item.

  2. 02

    Guidelines and gold set

    Written guidelines with worked examples, plus a gold set every contributor is tested against.

  3. 03

    Pilot batch

    A small paid batch you accept before anything scales. Most guideline problems surface here.

  4. 04

    Production

    Work flows through capture checks, automated QC, peer review and expert review.

  5. 05

    Delivery

    Incremental batches in your format with a data card, QA report and agreement scores.

  6. 06

    Iteration

    Rejections feed back into the guidelines so the same mistake is not made twice.

How quality is checked

Checks that run during the work, not a sample at the end.

  • Capture-time checks for noise, clipping, blur and length
  • Native-speaker or domain review in every language
  • Duplicate and near-duplicate detection across contributors
  • Gold items hidden in the queue to measure contributors continuously
  • A QA report with rejection reasons delivered with each batch

Industries that use it

Where teams bring us ai data collection, and what they use it for.

Why teams pick us for ai data collection

  • Quota recruitment

    An open crowd call returns urban young men. Quotas cost more and are the only thing that works.

  • Consent per file

    Every item carries a consent record and a deletion job that honours it.

  • Environment control

    Room, device and noise floor specified and verified, not hoped for.

  • Capture-time checks

    Bad audio is rejected in the browser before it ever uploads.

Start with a pilot batch of ai data collection.

A small paid batch against your real guidelines, priced up front. You accept it before we scale.

  • Reply within one working day
  • Volumes, languages, quality target and price
  • No sequences, no list

Request ai data collection

The more specific the failure you are trying to fix, the more useful our first reply will be.

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Questions we get asked

How long does recruitment take?

A pilot on a language we already run usually starts within a week. A new language, a narrow dialect or a KYC-gated pool takes two to four weeks.

Can you hit a demographic quota?

Yes, and we will tell you before the contract if a quota is unrealistic in the timeline you want. That conversation is cheaper than a failed delivery.

Who owns the collected data?

You do, on full payment, including the contributor consents that make it usable commercially.