We run it
Managed team
We recruit, proctor-test, review and onboard the team, run daily gold-set QA and give you a dedicated team lead.
Rate card, from $3,000 a month per team
For AI companies
Native-language teams for training and evaluating models
Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Serbian and Russian are thin pools on global platforms. We recruit, test and review people in the region, then put vetted people to work in Label Studio, CVAT, Argilla or your own platform.
Two ways to work
Hand us the team, or hire directly
You run it Opening soon
Self-serve marketplace
Post a job, get a matched shortlist of vetted workers, hire and manage them yourself, and pay through SilkTrain.
12% of talent payments + $9.95 per new contract; first 3 contracts free
Service levels
What we commit to
- Staffing a 10-person Tier 2 team in a listed language
- 10 business days (5 for Russian)
- Replacing a worker who drops out
- 3 business days
- Gold-set agreement, managed teams
- 90% or more each week, or the hours below it aren’t billed
- Replies in your project workspace
- Within 4 business hours, Astana and Belgrade time zones
- Weekly quality report
- Every Monday, 12:00 Astana time
Your tools
We supply people, not annotation software
Your guidelines, your queue, your data. Workers log in to the tool you already use, so your data never enters SilkTrain systems.
- Label Studio
- CVAT
- Argilla
- Your own platform
Onboarding
How a managed team starts
- Day 0 You sign the SOW. We open a staffing request with language, tier, headcount, start date and tool access steps.
- Days 1–3 We allocate people from the Tier 2+ pool and line up replacements for 20% of the team. Project NDAs are signed in the app.
- Day 4 A 2-hour calibration session on your guidelines. You approve a 20-item gold set built from it.
- Day 5 Workers get tool access and the team lead runs a 30-minute kickoff. Each worker’s first 10 hours are double-reviewed.
- Week 1 on Daily gold items in every queue, a weekly quality report, timesheets approved by Tuesday for the week before.
Pilot
Start with a paid two-week pilot
10 vetted workers in your tool, ready within 10 business days (5 for Russian). If a managed team’s weekly gold-set agreement falls below 90%, the hours below it aren’t billed.