Brendan Foody

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So when a customer comes to us, they're generally buying tasks where they would say, hey, they'll pay $1,000 for this task that delivers model improvement.

And then we do the end-to-end process associated with how do we find the experts?

How do we hire the experts?

How do we build the platform that the experts work on so the experts can do the work?

How do we have our AI project manager manage the experts to automate all of the

coordination of helping to produce this data?

How do we have automated quality checks, et cetera, to produce the end product of the task that we're delivering for our customer?

And so that's the large distinction of how we're powered by a talent network in the same way that Uber is powered by a driver network, but that's not the end product in the same way as some of those marketplace businesses.

Exactly.

Very vertically integrated.

Well, because so many parts of the downstream signal inform the upstream signal, right?

Like we can use the quality checks on how high caliber is each of the individual data points to understand exactly what are the types of experts that we should be onboarding to achieve the data that drives the most model improvement.

And there's oftentimes

this very power law nature of data that drives model improvement and that out of a data set of 10,000 tasks, the top 2,000 tasks will create majority of the value.

And so it allows vendors that are extremely high quality to be super differentiated insofar as pricing power, because quality is the X factor that becomes dramatically more valuable than any other dimension.

What tasks are super high value?

Is it like the medical, the financial modeling style?

It corresponds extremely closely to economic value.

So think if you go through the top five domains that we serve, it would be software engineering, it would be finance, medicine, law, consulting, et cetera, and the super long horizon tasks within those.

And so I think we're moving away from the paradigm of

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