Appen

Trust & data

How the vendor protects buyer material, where its data comes from, and where it can run.

SOC 2

Vendor-stated Type II

Source:trust.appen.com· Sep 29, 2026

Trust center

trust.appen.com

Source:trust.appen.com· Sep 29, 2026

Other certifications

ISO 27001:2022GDPRHIPAAISO 9001 (UK facilities)Philippines Data Privacy Act compliance

Sources:appen.comtrust.appen.com· Sep 29, 2026

Data sources

Expert or contractor-createdLicensed real-world data

Sources:appen.com/what-we-doappen.com/enterprise-data· Sep 29, 2026

Quotes

• Expert or contractor-created: Appen’s global crowd of over 1 million contributors generates richly annotated data across text, audio, image, and video modalities that capture real-world nuances.
• Licensed real-world data: License the workflows and operational know-how your company already runs on to the AI labs building the next generation of models.

Stated confidentiality practices

Uses access-controlled premises and databases with logins; staff, contractors, and third parties with access to confidential information have access controls and confidentiality obligations. Enterprise-data engagements can use scoped, anonymized pipelines with named, time-limited access and audit trails.

Sources:appen.com/privacy-statementappen.com/enterprise-data· Sep 29, 2026

Not publicly listed

Deployment, Exclusivity

What they sell

Offerings

RL environmentsHuman dataEvals and benchmarksTraining dataData annotation

Sources:appen.com (1)appen.com (2)appen.com/llm-training-dataappen.com/ots-datasetsappen.com/what-we-do· Sep 29, 2026

Domains

Multi-domainMedicalLegalScienceFinanceCodingBrowserSecurityEnterprise workflows

Sources:appen.com (1)appen.com/llm-training-dataappen.com/agentic-aiappen.com (4)appen.com/data-catalog/tasks-verifiers· Sep 29, 2026

Delivery formats

DatasetsAPIManaged service

Sources:appen.com/ots-datasetsappen.com/platformappen.com (3)· Sep 29, 2026

Public samples & benchmarks

• Appen's Security Benchmark
• MedTerm-90
• Chinese instruction set sentence corpus
• Chinese command and control prompt response corpus
• RL Tasks & Verifiers for Agent Training
• Reinforcement Learning Environments whitepaper

Sources:appen.com (1)appen.com/researchappen.com/agentic-aiappen.com/data-catalog/tasks-verifiers· Sep 29, 2026

Named customers

AmazonMicrosoftNVIDIASalesforceAdobeGoogleMetaApplePinterest

Sources:appen.com/partnersappen.com (2)cnbc.com· Sep 29, 2026