A person, not a sequence

Talk to us about AI Data & Annotation

AI inquiries reach the team that will actually run the review step, not a sales desk. Ask a question, describe a problem, or tell us you are not sure this is even the right kind of supplier — that is a useful conversation and it is a short one.

What you need

Service (optional — we will work it out from your files)

How many items?

Typical brackets: Under 100 items · 100–1,000 items · 1,000–10,000 items · 10,000+ items

Turnaround

Budget (optional)

What do you need done?

The more specific the brief, the closer the first version lands.

Samples (optional, but they make the quote accurate)

Drop files here, or choose them Up to 10 files, 500 MB each, 2 GB in total. JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PSD, RAW, AI, PDF, video, 3D and ZIP.

selected, in total. Choosing again replaces the list.

That is over 2 GB together. Send the rest in a second submission, or include a download link in your message.

Large uploads can take several minutes. Keep this page open until you see the confirmation.

Files are stored privately, used only to do the work, and never published. Larger sets? Send them here or share a link in the brief.

Where to send the answer

Your name

Company (optional)

Phone (optional)

I am happy for my details and files to be stored so you can reply and do the work. We will not add you to a mailing list from here. Privacy.

We reply within one business day.

A person reads it

Usually the same day, always within one business day. There is no sequence, no drip and nobody "just circling back" three weeks later.

Where it goes

AI inquiries reach the team that will actually run the review step, not a sales desk.

If we are the wrong studio

The reply will say so, and suggest what kind of supplier you actually want. That answer costs you one email and saves you a month.

You can skip this entirely

If you would rather see the work than talk about it, a pilot batch of 10 items, human-reviewed is free and needs no conversation first.

Formats we take

JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PSD, MP4, MOV, JSON, COCO, YOLO, ZIP. Anything else, ask — the list is what is common, not what is possible.

Prefer to talk?

Email hello@mediascaleup.com, or message the ai data & annotation team.

Before you ask

The questions that come up on most ai data & annotation inquiries.

Will a person actually look at the output?: Every deliverable, not a sample of them, and it is included in the price rather than sold as an upgrade. Hands, text, counts, edges and continuity are where generative models fail, and they fail confidently. Checking them is a few seconds per item and it is the whole reason the service is worth buying.
Is our data used to train a model?: No, and it is in the contract rather than a policy page. Your material is used to do your work and for nothing else. If you need the work done inside your own environment, or without touching a third-party model at all, that is possible and costs more to set up. Tell us at the quote stage.
Can we own the copyright in AI-assisted output?: This is genuinely unsettled and we will not pretend otherwise. The US Copyright Office has stated that work produced purely by a machine without human authorship is not registrable, and has issued guidance on disclosing AI-generated material. Where ownership matters to you, the human contribution matters legally as well as editorially. That shapes how we scope the job, and it is worth twenty minutes with your own counsel.
What does the pilot actually prove?: Ten representative items run end to end, returned with an honest list of where the process got it wrong and why. A pilot that hides the failure modes is worthless, because those are exactly what you are buying against. Ours reports them, which occasionally talks a client out of the project.
Do we have to disclose that AI was involved?: It depends where the output is used, and the rules are tightening. The FTC has warned against overstating what AI does, several states now regulate synthetic media, and some platforms require labeling. We record provenance and tell you plainly what was AI-assisted, so the disclosure decision is one you can actually make.
Is the free trial really free?: Yes. What the trial covers differs by discipline — two images, a 30-second cut of your own footage, one mastered episode, a technical review of a page you already own — and each service page says which one applies. No card, no invoice, no subscription that starts quietly afterward. It is done by the same people who would do the paid job, to the same standard, because a trial that flatters the work is useless to both of us.
How fast can you turn work around?: Most image work comes back in 6 to 24 hours. Video and 3D depend on the shot and the length, and we tell you the turnaround in the quote rather than after you have committed. If you have a deadline that cannot move, say so in the brief. We will tell you honestly whether we can hit it.
How do you price the work?: By what the job actually involves, not an average. A clipping path around a box and one around a bicycle are different amounts of work, and so are a two-minute explainer and a two-minute product film. The unit differs by discipline: per image, per finished minute, per episode, per product, per project, or monthly for retained work. Every service has a pricing page with our published rates and the US market ranges beside them, so you can sanity-check any quote including ours.