ONTO gives AI teams access to a pre-screened pool of verified, reputation-scored human evaluators with longitudinal consistency data no crowdsourcing platform can offer.
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The problem
Current evaluation pipelines rely on crowdsourcing platforms that can't tell you who your evaluators actually are — or how consistent they'll be.
No way to verify evaluator uniqueness. The same person, or a script, can submit hundreds of responses under different accounts.
Platforms give you a task score from this batch. They can't tell you how this evaluator performed six months ago, or whether their quality has drifted.
Agreement rate varies wildly between tasks and batches. There's no stable signal for "this evaluator is reliable" because there's no reputation to point to.
Sourcing, vetting, and onboarding fresh evaluators for every project wastes weeks. The best evaluation work is done by people who already have context.
The biggest unsolved problem in RLHF isn't the algorithm. It's the humans. We have no reliable way to know if our evaluators are who they say they are, or whether they'll be consistent tomorrow.
Composite from conversations with ML researchers at leading AI labs, 2025–2026
ONTO solves this because
Why ONTO is different
Not because they haven't tried. Because the infrastructure doesn't exist anywhere else.
Every evaluator in the ONTO network is a provably unique human. Verified on-chain, Sybil-resistant by design. Not a policy. Not a checkbox. A cryptographic guarantee.
Reputation scores are built from years of real behavior across hundreds of tasks. Not just the last batch. You get a stable, predictive signal for evaluator quality before you commit a single task to them.
Identity lives in the user's self-custodial wallet, not in a platform database. Evaluators carry their reputation across tasks and protocols. The signal follows the human, not the account.
How it works
A four-step supply chain designed to give AI teams reliable evaluators without the recruitment overhead.
Share your evaluation task type, volume, domain expertise requirements, and timeline. We match you to the right evaluator tier from the ONTO network. No sourcing required on your end.
You provide
Evaluators are filtered by reputation score, consistency tier, domain track record, and verified uniqueness. You see aggregate pool stats before committing. No blind sourcing.
YOU SELECT
Tasks are distributed to matched evaluators through the ONTO app. Evaluators are incentivized on-chain for faster turnaround and lower friction than traditional platforms.
Quality controls
You receive structured evaluation output. Each evaluator's reputation score is updated based on task performance making the pool smarter with every run.
You receive
How we compare
Traditional annotation platforms were built for volume. ONTO is built for trust.
| Capability | ONTO ✦ Recommended | Scale AI / Surge | MTurk / Prolific |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verifiable unique evaluators | ✓On-chain proof | ✗Trust-based | ✗Account-based |
| Longitudinal reputation scores | ✓7+ years of signal | –Task-level only | ✗No history |
| Predictable evaluator quality | ✓Reputation-predictable | –Managed workforce | ✗Highly variable |
| Sybil resistance | ✓Cryptographic | –Policy / manual | ✗Not guaranteed |
| Evaluator owns their identity | ✓Self-custodial wallet | ✗Platform-owned | ✗Platform-owned |
| No recruitment overhead | ✓Pool always ready | ✓Managed | ✗You source |
| Pool improves over time | ✓Flywheel reputation | –Manual curation | ✗Static |
| Pilot with no commitment | ✓20-min call to start | –Enterprise contract | ✓Self-serve |
✓ = Strong · – = Partial · ✗ = Not available. Comparison reflects publicly known platform capabilities as of May 2026.
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No pitch deck. No pressure. We want to understand your evaluation pipeline and share what we're building — then you decide if it's worth a pilot.
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