We take the work at the top of the stack: data that teaches and tests AI systems, where a careless label is worse than none. Delivered in Lagos, by trained and certified staff, for buyers who audit what they receive.
Benchmarks and test sets that grade AI systems against real judgement, including African contexts, languages and institutions that imported benchmarks miss.
Created, not just labelled: conversational speech, transcription and language data in African languages, Nigerian languages and Pidgin today, widening corridor by corridor, with dialect and tone handled by people who speak them.
Annotation where the category itself takes judgement: policy, safety, finance and domain material, with documented guidelines and measured agreement.
Independent checking of datasets and model outputs: sampling, error analysis and verification by reviewers who did not produce the work.
Not every buyer wants a project. Foreign companies that need the capability continuously take standing Phinamek teams instead: certified annotators, language specialists, transcribers, cleaners, verifiers and evaluation staff, trained by us, managed to our standards, supplied through Phinamek LLC under contract. You get a trained African data workforce without recruiting one, housing one, or hoping one stays trained.
A dataset without a provenance record is a liability dressed as an asset. Ours travel with a governance file: what was collected, from whom, under what consent, by what method, checked how. The same standard we verify in other people's data, applied to our own.
International organisations contract Phinamek LLC in USD; delivery is by Phinamek Data LTD in Lagos with certified staff. Local engagements are invoiced in naira. Payment by bank transfer against milestones defined in the proposal.
Commodity labelling at farm scale, and datasets without a consent chain. If a project's quality bar or provenance cannot survive an audit, we will tell you at scoping, not after delivery.
Tell us what you are preparing, deploying or defending. Engagements are scoped in writing, invoiced in naira through Phinamek Data LTD in Nigeria or USD through Phinamek LLC internationally, and paid by bank transfer.