# MLtwist

> 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.

- 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](https://www.mltwist.com/case-studies/tsa/): U.S. Transportation Security Administration awarded MLtwist a $590K contract to label and process multimodal security screening data.
- [Sandia National Laboratories](https://www.mltwist.com/case-studies/sandia/): Screening-data preparation for TSA's threat detection program cut from eight weeks to three (60%).
- [Stanford University](https://www.mltwist.com/case-studies/stanford/): 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.

## Pages

- [Labeling](https://www.mltwist.com/labeling/): What you get, staffing models, modalities, QA, export, and the Data ID Card
- [Public sector & security](https://www.mltwist.com/public-sector/): Government, national labs, security screening, and how agencies buy
- [Video & computer vision](https://www.mltwist.com/video/): Raw video to a versioned training set
- [Compare](https://www.mltwist.com/compare/): MLtwist vs Scale AI, Labelbox, and SuperAnnotate
- [Solutions](https://www.mltwist.com/solutions/): Data collection, synthetic data generation, data preparation, AI pipelines, labeling, LLM training data, model evaluation, and data provenance
- [Industries](https://www.mltwist.com/industries/): Training data by industry, from public sector and defense to retail, research, and AI companies
- [Case studies](https://www.mltwist.com/case-studies/): TSA, Sandia National Laboratories, Stanford, and 17 anonymized programs, filterable by data type
- [Resources](https://www.mltwist.com/resources/): The AI Minute videos, webinars, downloads, industry insights, and partners
- [Get started](https://www.mltwist.com/contact/): Contact, Google Cloud Marketplace, and Carahsoft
- [For AI assistants](https://www.mltwist.com/for-ai-assistants/): This information as a web page