The Cost of Untrained Experts

Quality failures are the industry's most expensive line item.

35%

task-approval rate documented on one vendor project — 65% of paid-for work rejected

$12.5M

one vendor's settlement tied in part to unpaid-onboarding practices

40+ hrs

of unpaid onboarding reported by workers — your filter cost, externalized and resented

#1

client-churn driver in 2025–26 vendor shakeups: data quality and trust incidents

Public reporting, 2025–2026. Detailed source list provided in every engagement deck.

Enterprise Offers

Four ways to buy the standard.

Entry Engagement

Onboarding Audit + Pilot Workshop

$7,500

Review of your (sanitized) instructions, rubrics, and QA outcomes
Failure-mode benchmarking against our Four Failure Families taxonomy
Half-day live workshop for one cohort of your experts
Before/after approval-rate measurement plan

Book the pilot

Core Engagement

Private Cohort — Your Expert Bench

$20–30k /cohort

4-week program for up to 30 of your experts, rebuilt around your task types (under NDA, firewalled from public curriculum)
Graded artifacts, calibration sessions, reviewer-agreement scoring
Deliverable: measured approval-rate lift and rework reduction — not a completion certificate

Scope a cohort

Scale Engagement

Curriculum & Content Licensing

$25–40k /yr + $300–600/seat/yr

White-label license to our full curriculum, exercises, and grading rubrics for your in-house academy
Train-the-trainer certification for your leads
Quarterly content updates as the industry's standards evolve
Comparable build-it-yourself cost: $3.3k–$15.8k per 30 minutes of finished content

Discuss licensing

Partnership

Certified Talent Pipeline

Free to partners

Fast-track applicants who hold the SME Standard credential
Access to our graduate directory (Legal & Finance first)
Reduce screening spend; raise first-pass approval rates
Co-designed qualification criteria for your task types

Become a partner

Why Us

Built by people from inside your pipeline.

Our founding team has worked as task creators, QC reviewers, auditors, and SME trainers on frontier-lab benchmark and RLHF programs. We know what your clients' audits flag, because we've written those audits — and we've built the onboarding decks your competitors don't have.

Vendor-neutral

We are the Switzerland of this market: no platform ownership, no conflicts, one published standard. Your training partner shouldn't be your competitor.

Clean-room & NDA-safe

Public-source curriculum, original synthetic examples, and firewalled client engagements. Our integrity code is published — and enforced on students.

Measured, not certified-for-show

Every engagement defines its lift metric up front: first-pass approval rate, rework rate, reviewer agreement. If we can't move it, we say so.

Contact

Scope an engagement.

Tell us about your expert workforce, your task types, and your quality goals. We respond within one business day with a concrete proposal outline.