The data engine for world‑class vision language models

Source, vet, and manage expert annotators in one place to accelerate precise video annotations.

Video Annotation Dashboard
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Case study

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Luma Labs partners with micro1 to onboard 100s of video annotators and power the next generation of their world-class video language model

Power your AVLMs with expert sourced, deeply vetted, and precisely annotated video data

Our core capabilities

Scale & Quality

Fully managed by expert annotators, our engine delivers consistent, high‑precision labels at every stage of your video data pipeline

Modality‑Focused

Built specifically for video: frame‑level, temporal, natural‑language annotations designed for VLM training.

Flexible & Cost‑Effective

We batch, stitch, or chunk videos based on complexity, optimizing cost and throughput

Data Diversity

Support for full‑motion, multi‑scenario, and edge‑case video coverage—including multilingual contexts and visual‑verbal alignment.

How it works

We use our AI recruiter to source and vet expert video annotators at scale

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We use our AI recruiter to source and vet expert video annotators at scale

You send us video inputs, such as S3 buckets, youtube, mp4, or raw uploads

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You send us video inputs, such as S3 buckets, youtube, mp4, or raw uploads

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We assign top experts to begin structured annotation using our data platform

The experts' performance is managed directly within our platform

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The experts' performance is managed directly within our platform

Use Cases

Empower your VLMs to master real-world video understanding with expert-labeled data across diverse, high-impact tasks.

Captioning & Transcription

Captioning & Transcription

Detailed descriptions of actions, environments, and dialogue.

Multimodal QA

Segment‑aware QA labels aligned with video segments.

Behavioral Scene Understanding

Annotate speaker intent, emotion, interactions—ground truth context for intelligent VLM behavior.

Our experts

O.K.

Perception Annotation Engineer

Exp: 5+ years

Rwanda

Rwanda

Vetted skills:

Attention to Detail

Data Annotation

Quality Assurance

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F.S.

Data Annotator

Exp: 7+ years

Kenya

Kenya

Vetted skills:

Data Annotation

Quality Assurance and Validation

Handling Ambiguity

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People Data Analyst at micro1

H.O.

People Data Analyst

Exp: 5.8+ years

Nigeria

Nigeria

Vetted skills:

Data Annotation

Quality Assurance and Validation

Handling Ambiguity

+1

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Hear from top labs

micro1 has demonstrated exceptional expertise in talent vetting and human data operations, pivotal to our project's success. micro1 consistently exceeded industry standards, significantly improving vetting efficiency, onboarding processes, and the achievement of critical quality and productivity metrics. Furthermore, the dedicated team exhibited remarkable passion and collaboration, making the partnership impactful and highly rewarding.

Strategic PM at top AI Lab
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Top AI Lab Director

micro1 is like a Swiss Army knife, they can find niche PhD talent very quickly and with extreme precision.

Sean Rad - Former CEO of Tinder
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Strategic PM at top AI Lab