Building the humanintelligence layerbehind frontier AI
Newbieget Labs is the managed execution partner for AI labs and data platforms. Complete, quality-assured evaluation and training-data projects. Delivered under SLA, with the audit attached.
Rework loop. Items failing Tier 1 return to the contributor with tagged findings. Batches predicted to miss your bar are reworked before delivery, at our cost.
≥95%
Acceptance rate SLA
Fee-at-risk option available
κ ≥ 0.7
Inter-rater agreement gate
Cleared before production starts
100%
First-pass peer review
Every item reviewed at least once
≤5
Escaped defects / 1,000
Client-found, tracked per batch
Built for the teams defining frontier AI
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Operating standardCommitments carried into every engagement, not historical averages
≥95%
Acceptance rate
Written into every SOW
κ ≥ 0.7
Agreement gate
Cleared before production
100%
First-pass review
Every item, no sampling
~10%
Applicant pass rate
Screen, trial, calibration
1 : 6
Reviewer ratio
Invariant at any scale
≤5
Escaped defects / 1k
Client-found, per batch
Azure marks the system: acceptance, agreement, review coverage. Violet marks the people who produce it.
The thesis
Frontier AI isbottlenecked bytrustworthy judgment.
The companies supplying that judgment are constrained by quality, not demand. Newbieget Labs wins by making quality the product. Measured, audited and delivered as evidence with every batch.
Frontier AI development is bottlenecked not by compute or capital, but by trustworthy human judgment at scale.
Where it breaks todayCost to the buyer
01
Freelancer variance
Individual contributors on marketplaces vary wildly in skill, effort and honesty.
20–40% of budget spent on redundancy and rework
02
Churn and retraining
Gig contributors leave mid-project. Calibration is lost and ramp-up repeats endlessly.
Schedule slip and quality regression mid-dataset
03
QA burden stays with the buyer
Marketplaces deliver raw output, not verified output, so labs staff large internal review teams.
Researcher time diverted to reviewing
04
Security exposure
Thousands of anonymous individuals touching confidential model data. NDA enforcement is impractical.
Leak risk on unreleased capabilities and benchmarks
05
Expertise scarcity
Agentic evaluations and repository-grade review need real engineers, not raters.
Roadmap delay on evaluation-gated releases
The cost of variance
Unmanaged judgmentis not cheaper.
20–40%
of budget spent on redundancy and rework, because freelancer variance means individual contributors on marketplaces vary wildly in skill, effort and honesty.
Churn and retraining
Gig contributors leave mid-project. Calibration is lost and ramp-up repeats endlessly.
Schedule slip and quality regression mid-dataset
QA burden stays with the buyer
Marketplaces deliver raw output, not verified output, so labs staff large internal review teams.
Researcher time diverted to reviewing
Security exposure
Thousands of anonymous individuals touching confidential model data. NDA enforcement is impractical.
Leak risk on unreleased capabilities and benchmarks
Expertise scarcity
Agentic evaluations and repository-grade review need real engineers, not raters.
Roadmap delay on evaluation-gated releases
None of this is a sourcing problem. It is a management problem, and it is the one Newbieget Labs is built to absorb.
Model Evaluation
Judgment your researcherswould sign off on.
Rubric-anchored scoring of model behaviour, executed by raters who understand the domain and calibrated against your own acceptance bar before a single production item is scored.
LLM evaluation, code generation review and expert code review
Human preference ranking with agreement tracked per dimension
Versioned rubrics with every clarification logged, never guessed
Any mandatory dimension below 3 caps the item regardless of the rest. That rule is written into the SOW, not left to reviewer judgment.
Agent Benchmarking
The evaluation work thatneeds real engineers.
Agentic evaluation is where crowd models break. Task authoring, environment engineering and trajectory grading are engineering disciplines, and they are the founding team's specialty.
Terminal-Bench style tasks with Dockerised, reproducible environments
SWE-Bench instance curation with verified patches and harness validation
Benchmark programs handed over complete, running in your CI
Share of delivered items accepted by the client without rework.
≥95%≥98%
First-pass yield
Share of contributor items passing Tier 1 unchanged.
≥85%≥90%
Inter-rater agreement
Cohen’s κ / Krippendorff’s α on the double-rated sample.
≥0.7≥0.75
Escaped-defect rate
Client-found defects per 1,000 delivered items.
≤5≤2
Gold-task accuracy
Contributor score on blind, seeded known-answer tasks.
≥90%≥93%
Review accuracy
Tier 1 decisions overturned at Tier 2 or Tier 3.
≤8%≤5%
Rule of the house
No batch leaves Newbieget Labs below the client’s acceptance bar. If internal QA predicts a miss, the batch is reworked before delivery. Schedule slips are negotiable. Quality misses are not.
Engagement patterns
The shape ofa Newbieget Labs program.
Documented engagement patterns with illustrative volumes. Named client case studies publish once engagements clear for publication.
With a paid pilot, usually two weeks. You send a rubric and the acceptance bar you already use. We return a two-page feasibility memo, a staffing plan and a fixed quote. If we miss the bar, the rework is at our cost.
It does not ship. Internal QA runs two points above your bar, so a predicted miss is reworked before delivery rather than after. If something escapes and you find it, the rework is at our cost within the window written into the SOW.
Four models: fixed-scope project delivery, a monthly retainer for a dedicated pod, per-item or retainer pricing for QA over someone else’s output, and project pricing for benchmark engineering. Rates depend on domain, expertise tier and volume, and are quoted per engagement.
Work is performed inside your environment by default, so the data never leaves your systems. Where we do host, it is encrypted at rest and in transit under least-privilege role-based access with 90-day access reviews and deletion certificates at project close.
Yes, and it is often the best way to start. We publish the metrics either way, including findings that are commercially inconvenient for us.
Not yet. The security policy pack, incident-response plan and pre-drafted vendor questionnaire responses exist today, and SOC 2 Type I is on the roadmap with Type II following. We would rather state the position plainly than imply a certification we do not hold.