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The Swarm
✓ verifiedFreemium
Relationship-intelligence database mapping warm intro paths across 500M profiles for sales, recruiting, and investing teams.
30K visits/mo
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Mercor
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Marketplace that matches vetted human experts with AI labs to produce training data and model evaluations.
8.9M visits/mo
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Zara
✓ verifiedPaid
Data lab providing expert human data, RL environments, and contextual evaluations to train and assess AI models and agents.
6.3M visits/mo45K saves
Pricing
Free: $0/month (10 connectors, no API access)
Premium: $99/company/month (50 connectors, 12,000 API credits, $0.10/credit overage)
Premium annual: $2,990/company/year (50 connectors, 12,000 API credits)
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Core features
- ✦AI-powered network mapping for warm intros
- ✦Combined dataset of 500M profiles and 50M companies
- ✦Daily job-change and company fundraising tracking
- ✦Live enrichment of up to 50,000 profiles per day
- ✦CRM integrations (HubSpot, Clay, Attio, Airtable, and more)
- ✦MCP server for connecting relationship data to AI assistants
- ✦Work and education overlap detection
- ✦Curated roles across many expert domains
- ✦Expert vetting and matching to AI projects
- ✦Hourly-paid contract work for specialists
- ✦APEX benchmarks and off-the-shelf datasets
- ✦Enterprise data partnerships and evaluations
- ✦Daily payouts to contributors
- ✦Realm: RL environments and frontier evaluations
- ✦Cortex: contextual evaluation for production AI agents
- ✦Expert-demonstrated robotics training data
- ✦Benchmarks such as LongExtractionBench
- ✦Expert human data partnerships
- ✦Research lab on human data markets
Use cases
- →Sales teams finding warm intro paths to target accounts
- →Investors sourcing deals through founder networks
- →Recruiters identifying alumni or colleague connections
- →Founders leveraging combined team networks for fundraising
- →Source expert human data for AI training
- →Run domain-expert model evaluations
- →Find paid remote work as a domain specialist
- →Build custom datasets for AI labs
- →Train and evaluate frontier AI models
- →Improve agent performance in production
- →Source expert human data for AI labs
- →Gather demonstration data for robotics
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