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About Annotation Academy

Annotation Academy is an independent training and certification program for human AI evaluation, AI training and data annotation work: the AI evaluator, AI trainer, AI rater and data annotator roles on platforms such as Outlier, DataAnnotation, Alignerr, Ethos, Mercor and Micro1. The course teaches prompt engineering for evaluation tasks, drafting the ideal response, designing objective rubrics, grading, and writing objective justifications, with Kappa, an AI tutor, critiquing the student's reasoning in every lesson. The certificate is earned through an ID-verified, proctored exam and is verifiable by code; no coding or AI background is needed to start, and the first module is free.

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Founded
2026
Based in
British Columbia, Canada
Operated by
Spuud AI Ltd.
Founder
Mo Zohourian
Independence
Not affiliated with any evaluation platform or AI lab
Certificate
ID-verified, proctored exam; verifiable at annotation.academy/verify
First module
Free