Platform Overview
The most advanced AI-assisted data annotation platform

Confidently Deploy Machine Learning Products With Our Platform
The Appen platform combines human intelligence from over one million people all over the world with cutting-edge models to create the highest-quality training data for your ML projects. Upload your data to our platform and we provide the annotations, judgments, and labels you need to create accurate ground truth for your models.
Our Platform Includes:
Data Annotation Capabilities
High-quality data annotation is key for training any AI/ML model successfully. After all, this is how your model learns what judgments it should be making. Our platform combines human intelligence at scale with cutting-edge models to annotate all sorts of raw data, from text, to video, to images, to audio, to create the accurate ground truth needed for your models.
Enterprise Capabilities
With over a decade of experience and 10+ billion judgments, our enterprise-ready data annotation platform delivers unprecedented quality and scale across a diverse set of industries and use cases. For large companies, we deliver enterprise solutions and multiple deployment options to support your robust business requirements.
Smart Labeling
Run your data annotation and collection projects using machine learning models that automate and improve productivity, quality, and delivery throughout the training data preparation journey.
Workflows
Workflows allows customers to build and automate multistep data annotation projects with ease. Customers now have access to a real data pipeline solution that reduces latency and increases efficiency via automated data routing.
Customers Running World-Class AI





YOUR TRUSTED DATA PARTNER FOR RETAIL AI
Conversational & Generative AI
Build NLP based experiences for voice assistants, translation, and customer service. Take applications to the next level by generating hyper-personalized content with Generative AI.
Computer Vision
Detect shopper's physical features and movements to overlay virtual images of products onto customers for visualization before purchasing. It can also be used to develop in-store self-check-out capabilities, inventory management and fraud detection.
Catalog
Leverage our retail domain experts with broad language understanding to execute product categorization, attribute tagging, product verification, competitive analysis, image annotation, taxonomy design, and more!
Mobile Location Data
Enable ‘to-your-door’ delivery with reduced costs through accurate underlying maps. Improve route planning for workforce efficiency and establish new warehouses with contextual attributes and photos.
Types of Annotation Capabilities We Offer


Collect
Data Types: Text, Image, Audio, Video, URL
Collect user-generated content and links from around the web including audio, images, and websites to help your data program. We support complex data use cases like in-car audio collection or text utterance collection for chatbot programs, as well as more straightforward image/audio collection and information extraction jobs.
Classify
Data Types: Text, Image, Audio, Video, URL, Point Cloud
Classify and categorize any kind of data on a massive scale using our annotation platform. Moderate and sort high volumes of content your users provide with precision. Common use cases include content moderation, sentiment analysis, search relevance, product classification, and object classification.
Annotate
Data Types: Text, Image, Audio, Video, Point Cloud
Annotate images, text, videos, point clouds, and audio with one of our annotation tools. Whether it's a simple bounding box or segmentation of audio, we can support your annotation with our state of the art technology platform. We also support text labeling tools like NER and parts of speech labeling. Many of our tools feature machine learning assistance for greater efficiency and accuracy vs human annotation alone. Find what you need in our platform's template library.
Transcribe
Data Types: Image, Audio, Video
Transcribe documents, images of documents, or website information using a variety of services - whether it be a single field or multiple pages. We also offer audio transcription services to cater to scaling your natural language processing (NLP) and audio speech recognition (ASR) programs.
Translate
Data Types: Text
We offer a crowd of over one million skilled contributors, with an offering of over 180 different languages. With a suite of specialized linguistic experts in-house, we are more than equipped to translate large volumes of data to reliably train your AI and ML models.
Secure Data Access
Data security requirements are met for customers working with personally identifiable information (PII), protected health information (PHI), and other sophisticated compliance needs.
Enterprise-level security to protect sensitive client data




Secure Crowd
We offer a suite of secure service offerings with flexible options to ensure data security via secure facilities, secure remote workers, and onsite services to meet specific business needs.
Enterprise-level security to protect sensitive client data




Secure Facilities
We have sites in multiple geographies to support projects with Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and other sensitive data, as well as the right people, policies, and processes in place for a range of security levels, up to government level certification.
Enterprise-level security to protect sensitive client data




Secure Workspace
With our ISO 27001 accredited remote Secure Workspace solution, our global crowd can work on your sensitive projects remotely, without having to access a physical secure facility. This allows the diversity of our remote crowd to reduce bias and support multiple languages even through global disruptions.
Enterprise-level security to protect sensitive client data





Machine Learning
Platform Tour
Explore our cutting-edge annotation platform using the navigation available in the interactive tour. You will be able to see how you can create annotation jobs, define test questions and configure details all the way to launching the annotation job.

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