Contact us
There are two reasons to get in touch, and they go to different places. If you are buying data, send a specification and we will tell you whether it is sourceable, what it costs and how long it takes. If you produce data, the supplier programme is the route in.
Buying data
Use the form below: it asks for the things a quote actually depends on.
What to include in a first message, roughly in order of how much it helps:
- Data type: speech, text, image, video, embodied AI, or a mix in one project.
- Language and dialect, where they apply. “Arabic” and “Levantine Arabic” are different projects with different timelines.
- Volume: hours, items, or clips, with a sense of whether it is a pilot or a full run.
- Distinct contributor count, if it matters. For speech it usually does.
- Collection conditions: studio or field, device, headset or far-field, scripted or spontaneous.
- Annotation depth: transcription, diarisation, intent, emotion, bounding boxes, and how many annotators should agree.
- Delivery format: the format you will actually load, not the format you think we prefer.
- Timeline, and whether there is a hard date behind it.
A specification that answers most of that gets a real number back. A one-line enquiry gets a question back, which costs everyone a round trip.
What happens after you send it
- We read the specification and check it against real capability. Not against a stock catalogue: first our own collection and processing, then producers who have actually done that language, that condition or that annotation type.
- We come back with a real cost, a timeline, or a no. Where a language has an established producer pool, a quote usually takes a few days. For a low-resource language or an unusual specification, speaker recruitment sets the timeline and it is genuinely hard to predict in advance. You get an honest range rather than a date we cannot hold.
- If it is a yes, the quality bar gets written down before anything is collected. Guideline, delivery format and acceptance criteria are agreed first. A pilot batch follows, you review it, and production starts against the approved pilot.
If nobody in the network can meet the specification, we say so. That is a faster answer than a project that fails halfway, and it is the one we would want in your position.
Selling or producing data
If you run a studio, an annotation team, a field operation, or a robotics platform, we are actively looking for production capacity: particularly in low-resource languages and embodied AI. The supplier programme explains what we look for and how vetting works.
Other enquiries
For anything that is not a sourcing request: press, partnership, a correction to something on this site: use the form below and say what it is about.
Before writing, these may already answer it: how a project runs · compliance and licensing · about us.
Send a sourcing specification
Tell us the language, the hours, and what the data needs to look like. You will get a real number and a real timeline, not a range. If we cannot source it well, we will tell you that instead.
- Pilot batch before the full run, so problems surface early.
- Consent documentation delivered with the data.
- No medical or clinical data. No recorded telephone calls.
- You send the spec Language, hours, recording conditions, and the deadline.
- We reply within two business days A real number and a real timeline, not a range.
- You approve a pilot batch A small run first, so problems surface before the full order.
- Full run, then delivery with documents Audio, transcripts, and the consent record for every speaker.