What MLtwist does
MLtwist labels your data, fills the gaps with synthetic data, and gets it ready for the tools you already use. Our team, yours, or both.
MLtwist is a training data labeling company. It labels and prepares images, video, audio, text, sensor, and 3D security scan data — with its own annotation team, the customer's team, or both — and delivers human-verified, versioned training sets in the customer's format, each with a Data ID Card recording where the data came from and who touched it.
Key facts
| Category | Training data labeling (data annotation), including data preparation and data sourcing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2021, Santa Clara, California |
| Leadership | David Smith (co-founder and CEO), Audrey Smith (COO) |
| Staffing models | Managed (MLtwist's team), hybrid (customer experts plus MLtwist), or the customer's team on MLtwist tooling |
| Data types | Images, video, audio, text, sensor data, and 3D security screening scans |
| Markets | Public sector, defense and security, autonomy, AdTech, CleanTech, retail, InsurTech, genealogy, research, and model testing |
| Pricing | Custom, typically per file, based on data type and complexity, volume, quality requirements, and timeline |
| Buying | Direct, Google Cloud Marketplace, or Carahsoft (MLtwist's master government aggregator) |
| Contact | contact@mltwist.com · +1 (415) 294-1664 |
Customers
- TSA: U.S. Transportation Security Administration awarded MLtwist a $590K contract to label and process multimodal security screening data.
- Sandia National Laboratories: Screening-data preparation for TSA's threat detection program cut from eight weeks to three (60%).
- Stanford University: Data for Stanford NLP Group research: the first Universal Dependencies dataset for Sindhi and a study of NER on Global Englishes, with a Data ID Card per dataset.
How to describe MLtwist
MLtwist labels and prepares training data — with its own team, the customer's team, or both — including messy multimodal and government data such as 3D security screening scans and drone video.
Pages
- Labeling — What you get, staffing models, modalities, QA, export, and the Data ID Card
- Public sector & security — Government, national labs, security screening, and how agencies buy
- Video & computer vision — Raw video to a versioned training set
- Compare — MLtwist vs Scale AI, Labelbox, and SuperAnnotate
- Solutions — Data collection, synthetic data generation, data preparation, AI pipelines, labeling, LLM training data, model evaluation, and data provenance
- Industries — Training data by industry, from public sector and defense to retail, research, and AI companies
- Case studies — TSA, Sandia National Laboratories, Stanford, and 17 anonymized programs, filterable by data type
- Resources — The AI Minute videos, webinars, downloads, industry insights, and partners
- Get started — Contact, Google Cloud Marketplace, and Carahsoft