Data Collection

End-to-end data collection.
Built for the complexity AI demands.

Welo Data manages the full program (facilities, sourcing, compliance, collection, and QA) across 155+ locales and six capability areas. You scope the need. We deliver the data.

155+
Locales supported across speech, text, vision, and behavioral data
14+
Secure, certified facilities across 8+ global regions
6
Core collection capability areas, all delivered in-house
E2E
One program lead from scoping through final delivery
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Our Approach

Operational depth on every program.

Data collection is 90% operations. Facilities, scheduling, compliance, participant logistics, and on-the-ground or remote management: Welo Data owns all of it, so you don’t have to.

Consultative Scoping

We work with your team to map requirements, participant demographics, timelines, and compliance needs, building the program architecture before a single session begins.

Secure Facility Infrastructure

On-demand access to 14+ certified labs worldwide, plus the ability to source and configure partner locations. IP protections, device security, and access controls in place from day one.

Precise Participant Sourcing

Demographic-specific recruitment across body types, skin types, age ranges, ability profiles, and language backgrounds. Every participant reviewed before engagement. Not bulk-recruited.

Legal & Governance Built In

Data consent, participant privacy, and handling protocols finalized before collection begins. Non-negotiable for biometric, skin-type, and minor-participant programs. Standard on every engagement.

Experienced Program Leads

Program managers who have run complex, high-stakes collection for decades. Edge cases, disruptions, and hard launch deadlines are standard operating procedure, not escalations.

QA Embedded Throughout

Pilot samples and calibration rounds run before full-scale collection. QA runs in parallel throughout. Issues surface during the program, when they can still be fixed.

Get Started

Ready to scope your program?

Bring us your use case. We’ll map the program: participant demographics, collection environment requirements, timeline, compliance. We’ll tell you exactly how we’d deliver it.

The Delivery Process

Give it to us.
We handle everything.

From program scoping to model-ready delivery: one team, one point of contact, full ownership of every stage.

01
Program Scoping

Scope & Architect

We map your use case, task types, participant demographics, timeline, and compliance requirements, building the program architecture before a single collection day begins.

Requirements reviewDataset designCompliance mapping
02
Lab & Logistics

Set Up & Secure

We source and configure the right setup — one of our 14+ global labs, a partner location, or a remote collection environment — with full InfoSec, safety protocols, and participant certifications in place.

Certified labsRemote setupHardware logisticsSafety protocols
03
Participant Sourcing

Recruit & Vet

Hands-on, demographically precise recruitment across 155+ locales. Every participant’s demographic reviewed to match program requirements before engagement.

Global rosterDemographic matchingHands-on vetting
04
Data Collection

Collect & Monitor

Program leads run on-the-ground sessions or remote collection workflows and monitor quality in real time. Pilot samples and calibration rounds run before full-scale collection begins. Alignment is confirmed before volume starts.

On-site managementRemote setupPilot calibrationReal-time QA
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Annotation & QA

Validate & Annotate

Raw data reviewed against specs, annotated, and formatted before it reaches your pipeline. Human-in-the-loop QA at every stage. What you receive is model-ready.

AnnotationFormat validationSpec compliance
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Ongoing Delivery

Scale & Evolve

As model requirements develop, programs adapt. New locales, adjusted demographics, re-calibration when specs change, delivery pace maintained against your roadmap.

Multi-locale scaleRe-calibrationRoadmap alignment
Collection Capabilities

Six capability areas.
All under one program.

Whether your model handles speech, vision, or physical interaction: we’ve collected it before, at scale, under controlled conditions, across the locales that matter.

Speech & Audio

Multi-accent, multi-dialect speech across 155+ locales. Command recognition, voice interaction, and conversational AI training data, in controlled and natural environments.

Text & Language

Domain-specific text with expert annotation. Legal, medical, financial, and technical verticals, written and reviewed at linguist level, not crowd level.

Vision & Multimodal

Image, video, and combined modality datasets. Object detection, scene understanding, and action recognition, collected at scale with demographic precision.

Physical Interaction

Human motion and gesture for robotics, embodied AI, and assistive technology programs. Secure lab settings, safety protocols, and certified facilities included as standard.

Biometric & Behavioral

Certified facilities, compliant recruitment, and trained program leads for biometric, skin-type, eye-tracking, and other sensitive collection types, with legal and comms frameworks specific to each.

Synthetic + Human Hybrid

Synthetic generation paired with human ground-truth validation. Scale without sacrificing quality. Real-world coverage where synthetic alone falls short.

Six Capabilities. One Partner.

Tell us what you’re building.
We’ll scope what it takes to collect it.

Speech, vision, robotics, biometric, multilingual: our team has run programs across all of it. Bring us your use case.

Scale & Track Record

The infrastructure behind every program.

Built for teams that need volume, precision, and the operational depth to deliver both.

155+
Locales Supported

Speech, text, vision, and behavioral collection across languages, dialects, and geographies.

14+
Secure Facilities

Certified, controlled labs across 8+ global regions, plus the ability to source and configure partner locations.

6
Capability Areas

Speech, text, vision, physical interaction, biometric, and synthetic hybrid: all in-house.

8+
Global Regions

On-the-ground teams and offices in low-cost and high-demand collection markets worldwide.

E2E
Full Program Ownership

One program lead from scoping through final delivery. No handoffs, no gaps in accountability.

Zero
Surprises at Delivery

Pilot calibration and embedded QA mean spec issues surface during the program, not when you open the final dataset.

Why Welo Data

What makes a data collection program actually work.

Most programs don’t fail on model quality. They fail on operations. Here’s where Welo Data is built differently.

01

Operational infrastructure already in place

Certified labs, global offices, and on-the-ground teams across 8+ regions. We don’t build the program from scratch when you call. The infrastructure exists and is ready to deploy.

02

Experienced leads, not coordinators

Program managers who have run large-scale, complex collection for decades, including robotics, biometric, and high-sensitivity programs. Disruptions and hard deadlines are handled on site.

03

Sensitive collection handled correctly

Skin type, biometric, minor-participant, and other sensitive demographics require specific legal frameworks, recruitment language, and data handling protocols. Ours are built and tested, not assembled per engagement.

04

Quality embedded, not applied at the end

Pilot samples and calibration rounds run before full-scale collection begins. QA runs in parallel throughout. Issues surface during the program, when they can be fixed.

05

Multilingual depth where it counts

155+ locales with native-speaker access and dialect coverage. Welo Data’s multilingual infrastructure, built over decades, extends into data collection programs where language precision directly affects model performance.

06

Flexible when requirements evolve

Specs changed mid-program are handled through structured re-calibration, not rework from scratch. We realign on requirements, run a new pilot sample, and continue. Timelines are discussed transparently.

FAQ

Common questions. Straight answers.

What does end-to-end ownership mean for a collection program?
One program lead owns everything: scoping, facility access, participant sourcing, scheduling, collection management — whether on-site or remote — QA, annotation, and final delivery. You bring the use case. We return a model-ready dataset. No coordinating between vendors, no managing logistics yourself.
How do you handle biometric or sensitive collection programs?
Certified facilities or verified remote environments, compliant recruitment, and legal frameworks specific to the data type, built before collection starts, not assembled per engagement. For biometric, skin-type, eye-tracking, and minor-participant programs, the compliance infrastructure, recruitment language, and data handling protocols are already in place and tested.
Can you support robotics and physical interaction programs?
Yes. Secure lab access, hardware handling protocols, and safety infrastructure for human-robot interaction are standard. We’ve managed programs involving pre-commercial robotics hardware: IP protection, device security, controlled access, and certified facilities are built into the program from day one.
What locales can you support, and how quickly can you scale?
155+ locales, supported through both on-site certified facilities and remote collection modes, giving you flexible access across 8+ global regions including low-cost markets. Scaling to new locales doesn’t require building infrastructure from scratch. The teams and facilities are already there. Timeline depends on program complexity; we scope that in the first conversation.
How does quality control work across a large program?
QA starts at vetting: every participant and QA reviewer is screened before the program begins. A pilot sample runs first, reviewed and calibrated with you before full-scale collection starts. QA runs in parallel throughout, with ongoing feedback to collectors. Final delivery includes automated checks on naming, formatting, and spec compliance.
What happens if requirements change mid-program?
Scope changes are handled through structured re-calibration. We pause, realign on updated requirements, run a new pilot sample for your approval, and resume full-scale collection. Timeline implications are scoped and communicated transparently, including time needed on your side for sign-off.
How do you handle data ownership and confidentiality?
All collected data belongs to you. NDAs, data pipeline audits, device-level restrictions, and controlled access protocols are standard across every program. For pre-commercial hardware or proprietary datasets, additional InfoSec layers are scoped into the program design from the outset.
Get Started

Your next program starts here.

Tell us your use case: capability area, locales, timeline, compliance requirements. We’ll map the program and tell you exactly how we’d deliver it.

Talk to a Program Lead →