THE CHALLENGE & OPPORTUNITY

Sapien is designed to answer a foundational question for AI development: Who created this data, and how can we trust its quality?

Challenge

The AI industry is experiencing unprecedented growth, projected to exceed $1.8 trillion by 2030. At the heart of this expansion lies a critical challenge: how to source the high-quality human knowledge needed to train increasingly sophisticated AI models.

Today's systems face three critical bottlenecks:

1. Quality verification remains a massive challenge, with no reliable way to verify expert contributions at scale and varying standards across providers.

2. Expert coordination proves difficult, with inefficient credential verification and no standardized way to match specialists to tasks.

3. Finally, economic alignment suffers as traditional systems lose 60% of value to middlemen, offering poor incentives for quality contributions.

Opportunity

This creates an unprecedented opportunity. AI companies need human expertise more than ever, yet experts lack a standardized way to monetize their knowledge. By solving these challenges through our protocol, Sapien enables AI companies to access verified expertise at scale while creating new earning opportunities for millions of contributors.

With more than 1.8 million contributors registered, and more than 185 million tasks completed, Sapien has shown that high-quality data pipelines can be operated at scale through open, peer-enforced systems. The protocol is used across sectors including autonomous vehicles, robotics, medical and educational AI, and global development work with institutions such as the United Nations.