Primary data, audited end to end.
Captured expert work, not labels on existing data. Audited end to end. Compared against the category below, with sources.
Primary signal, not secondary labels.
Annotation labels data that already exists. Capture records the expert's actual work: what they looked at, what they tried, what they ruled out. One line per provider, in their own words. Only one captures the work live.
Real expert work, captured live and multi-modal: screen, voice, click, voiced reasoning, instrumented to the millisecond.
- Identity-verified panel, not crowdsourced raters
- Native-language capture, not translation
- Versioned, per-use-case consent, enforced in code
- Decision-point tagging at capture
| Provider | Label | Line |
|---|---|---|
| Scale AI | Annotation at scale | Annotation workforce and AI-data services for commercial and government customers, at scale. |
| Handshake AI | Verified network | High-quality annotation and RLHF via a verified network of students, graduate-degree holders, and domain experts. |
| Mercor | Expert marketplace | AI-matched expert marketplace, primarily for expert interviews, evaluations, and annotation tasks. |
| Turing | Developer marketplace | Developer and expert marketplace, focused on RLHF and code annotation for AI training. |
Procurement won't be the blocker.
Useful data still has to get past security and legal. The table below answers most of that review before it starts. The four providers shown publish a public trust portal; every cell traces to the one linked in its column. A blank means the framework isn't on that provider's public portal as of the verified date, not that they lack it.
| Framework | Askable Labstrust.askable.com | Scale AItrust.scale.com | Handshake AItrust.joinhandshake.com | Mercortrust.mercor.com |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC 27001:2022Information security | ||||
| ISO/IEC 27701:2019Privacy | ||||
| ISO/IEC 42001:2023AI management | ||||
| SOC 2 Type IIAICPA TSC | ~ | |||
| UK Cyber EssentialsNCSC baseline | ~ | |||
| Wiz Cloud SecurityCloud posture |
Turing publishes no public trust portal as of 2026-05-28, so it isn't in the table above. Its certifications, if any, aren't publicly verifiable.
Scale AI holds FedRAMP High and DoD IL4 Provisional. Askable Labs doesn't. The pipeline is commercial frontier AI, not federal cloud.
Sources. Every claim on this page comes from each provider's own homepage, product pages, or public trust portal. Verified 2026-05-28, reviewed quarterly. Corrections welcome at security@askable.com.
What these three protect.
Six frameworks held. Three carry the weight for AI data specifically. Here's what each one covers.
The only international standard for AI management systems. Of the providers compared here, only Askable Labs publishes it.
Privacy information management, extending ISO 27001. Participant data runs under a certified PIMS.
Independent attestation over a window, not a point in time. Covers security, availability, and confidentiality.
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