Frontier AI Labs
Evaluation demand scales with model capability, not against it.
Labs no longer buy bounding boxes. They buy expert evaluations, RLHF from skilled raters, agentic-task benchmarking and code review. Work that rewards small, trained, accountable teams over anonymous crowds.
What they buy
- Expert-tier evaluation
- Agent benchmark programs
- RLHF at calibrated agreement
- Red-team prompt sets
How it starts
Vendor registration and long-cycle relationship building, entering through evaluation and benchmark niches.