Meet the first Humans
Profiles below pending the founding pool's review and consent for publication. Names, locations, and skill specialisations are placeholders. We will not ship a Human's identifying details to the public site without their written consent — that is a rule for us, and it is a rule for every Builder who works on the Network.
I. Who the founding pool is
The founding pool is the first cohort of verified Humans on the Network. They labeled the first datasets, ran the first qualification arenas, and helped us debug the consensus aggregator against real disagreement at low N. They are the reason the Network has a calibration before it has a customer base.
The pool is intentionally small — fewer than two hundred Humans across twelve countries — and intentionally varied. We did not recruit a homogenous expert pool, because the Network is not a homogenous expert pool. We recruited from the populations that the Network is meant to serve, and we recruited at the qualification standard the Network is meant to require. Phone-verified, ID-verified, qualification-arena passed at T2 or above. Many of the founding-pool Humans are now T3 Stewards.
II. A few of them
Names below are placeholders.
Aisha M. — image-segmentation specialist, six years in remote-sensing labels for environmental NGOs before joining the founding pool. Now a T3 Steward on geospatial datasets. Joined because she wanted the work credited to her by name. "I labeled four million tiles in my last role. None of them have my name on them. None of them. The customer does not know I exist. The model does not know I exist. The Network is the first place I have worked where the labels carry my signature."
Daniel K. — RLHF-preference labeler with a background in moral philosophy. Was working as a contract reviewer for a frontier-model lab through a vendor. The pay was good. The transparency was zero. "I would write three paragraphs of reasoning on a hard preference call. The model never saw the reasoning. The next reviewer never saw the reasoning. It went into a vendor pipeline and came out as a single bit. Here it goes into the audit log."
Priya R. — multilingual transcription, eleven languages including three low-resource South Asian languages. T3 Steward on the Language Guild. Joined because she wanted to set the rates for low-resource language work, which the existing vendor market had calibrated to almost nothing on the assumption that supply was unlimited. "The supply is not unlimited. It is just unorganised. The Network is where the supply organises."
Thomas O. — bounding-box labeler turned T3 Steward on the Quality Council. Came from a contract-label firm in West Africa where pay was per-piecework with quotas that pushed labelers to skim. Stayed because the consensus aggregator surfaced his calibration accurately and the Network paid him for it. "The first month I made less than the vendor. The third month I made twice as much. By month six the system knew I was good and the system was paying me to be good. That is not what vendors do. Vendors pay you to be fast."
Mei H. — document parsing, financial filings and legal contracts, with a CPA background. T3 Steward on Domain Experts. Joined because the Network was the first labeling environment that accepted her professional certification as a Tier signal rather than treating her as interchangeable with a generalist. "I am not a generalist. The Network is the first place that priced the difference."
III. What the pool unlocks
The founding pool is not a marketing roster. It is the source of the calibration data that makes the consensus aggregator trustworthy at the boundaries. We know how the aggregator behaves on RLHF preference because Daniel and his peers labeled enough disagreement-rich items for the math to converge. We know the agreement floor on multilingual transcription because Priya's pool found the floor on three South Asian languages. The Quality Council has Stewards on it because Thomas and his peers earned the Steward role through verified work, not through founder appointment.
When Phase III ships and the credit unit goes live, the founding pool gets the largest retroactive allocation in the network. This is not a gesture. It is the structural acknowledgment that the Network does not exist without their work. The credits they earn will be slashable, stakeable, and votable on Phase IV governance. They will be the first voices in the Commons, because they were the first labor in the Network.
We will publish the founding pool's full roster — by name, with consent, with their permission on which details to share — when we ship the Phase II per-label receipt schema. Until then, the placeholders above are the public-facing version of a real cohort whose names we know, whose work we depend on, and whose consent we will not bypass for the sake of a launch post.
— The Humans of Humaniti