About rustLabs

Real experts, in the loop.

rustLabs is an applied AI lab. We build the environments, rubrics and evaluations that AI labs train and test against. We also run rustLabs Experts, a network of more than 19,300 working professionals who supply the human judgment behind that data.

experts with rustLabs: 19,300+
expert fields: 6
per hour, by expertise: $20–100+
team, from pilot to production: 1

01 · Why we exist

Models learn from judgment, not just text.

Models get better when an accountant walks through a return line by line, when an engineer explains exactly why a fix is wrong, when a clinician grades a diagnosis step by step. Our job is to capture that judgment carefully enough that a model can learn from it.

We’re a small team. We work directly with the labs training models and with the experts doing the tasks. When a project needs a new environment, we build it. When an expert flags a broken task, a person reads it and fixes it, usually the same day. That’s the pitch: real experts, real oversight, and data we put our name on.

02 · What we build

Three things, done properly.

01RL environments & evalsTask environments, grading rubrics and evaluation suites designed around how labs train and test their models, not generic annotation templates.
02The experts platformOur own platform, built in-house. Experts apply, qualify, pick up projects, submit work and get paid by the hour, all in one place, with a human on the other end.
03Partner data programsPrograms for AI labs and applied-AI companies, from small pilots to production pipelines, like our computer-vision work with ViaTouch's VICKI retail machines.

03 · How we work

The standards we hold ourselves to.

01Experts come firstClear task specs, fair rates and fast answers. The data is only as good as the people making it, so we treat them as professionals.
02Quality over volumeEvery submission is reviewed. We'd rather ship a smaller set a lab can trust than a mountain of noise.
03Small and directYou talk to the people building the environments and reviewing the work. No vendor layers, no ticket queues.

04 · Talk to us

Building something that needs experts?

Tell us what you’re working on and a researcher on our team, not a queue, will get back to you.

Experts: apply to rustLabs here.

05 · Follow the work

See what we’re shipping.

We post new fields opening for experts, partner launches and notes from the work as it happens.

Models learn from judgment, not just text.

Three things, done properly.

The standards we hold ourselves to.

Building something that needs experts?

Talk to a researcher

See what we’re shipping.