What is Sapien?

• Founders: Rowan Stone, Trevor Koverko
• Launch: 2024
• Use Cases: AI model fine-tuning, data annotation for autonomous systems, enterprise dataset creation, adversarial testing, prompt alignment, and quality assurance.
• Technology: Decentralized data foundry, Proof of Quality protocol, staking and reputation systems, gamified task allocation, and Layer-2 blockchain integration for rewards and validation.

Sapien Io is an AI-powered agent platform that aims to tackle one of the toughest problems in artificial intelligence—scalable, high-quality training data. Rather than using centralized data labeling technology like many services based on crowdsourcing, Sapien is a decentralized data foundry. Sapien connects contributors from around the world to create, label, and validate datasets in several formats, like images, video, audio, and text, to advanced 3D/4D sensor data. Sapien uses its Proof of Quality protocol to ensure that all contributions are reliably validated by using a multi-layer reputation scoring, staking, and validation to deliver an unparalleled expectation for accuracy and transparency in the data delivered to enterprises. Contributors are encouraged and rewarded for their work, bringing human intelligence to meet the increasing need for reliable, quality data to help with AI tasks. Enterprises now have access to higher fidelity and customized, vertically specialized datasets across autonomous vehicles, robotics, financial services, and natural language processing. As an intuitive decentralized data foundry, Sapien.io is creating a new paradigm for how trustworthy data is produced in scalable ways as a key infrastructure player in the era of AI by using human-in-the-loop intelligence and blockchain-enabled transparency.