Companies / Data vendor
AfterQuery
Applied research lab curating data for frontier foundation model development: SFT data, RL with rubrics, agent environments and human-demonstrated computer use. Recorded here: what it sells, in its own words, 2 funding events, 1 revenue figure and 9 public prices.
San Francisco, California, USFounded 2025afterquery.comLatest record 15 Oct 2026
What AfterQuery sells
In its own words, read on its own site 15 Oct 2026. On the vendor register
- What it sells
RL environments: “enabling training and evaluation of agents in real workflows.” afterquery.com
Datasets: “Offers ready-to-deploy datasets across high-demand capability areas” afterquery.com
Expert and human data: “Captured from domain experts step by step, decision by decision, and verified before delivery.” afterquery.com
Evaluations and benchmarks: “We create evaluation task sets that pinpoint exactly where a model breaks down, across any domain or workflow.” afterquery.com
- Where its data comes from
Made by experts and contractors: “We work with domain experts to capture that thinking” afterquery.com
Recorded from people and the real world: “Captured from domain experts step by step, decision by decision, and verified before delivery.” afterquery.com
Generated: “We curate expert-generated datasets, generate synthetic data, and help turn messy enterprise data into a form models can be trained on.” afterquery.com
The client's own data: “help turn messy enterprise data into a form models can be trained on” afterquery.com
- Buys data from owners
- Its pages do not say it does.
- Areas its pages name
- Coding, Computer use, Business work, Finance, Legal, Medical, Science, Speech and audio, Images and video, Languages
Public prices involving AfterQuery
- Original SWE-bench style coding task authored from the contributor's own private codebase (maintainer-style issue, hidden fail-to-pass and pass-to-pass tests, reference solution), AfterQuery University SWE Expert
AfterQuery pays the contributor only for tasks that pass automated validation (up to five attempts), on top of $300 per codebase connected; the same terms appear in AfterQuery's SWE Experts posting dated 14 Aug 2026, which also states $150 an hour. Undated posting, read on 2026-10-14.
The payer's own page, Handshake job posting by AfterQuery, University SWE Expert
$75 per task that is fully approvedper fully approved task
- Access to a substantial private codebase the contributor owns, used as the basis for SWE coding tasks (AfterQuery University SWE Expert)
Paid to the owner of the private codebase per codebase used, separate from the $75 per approved task; the lowest per-repository figure a named buyer publishes, against $10K to $100K+ at Turing's Lazarus programme.
The payer's own page, Handshake job posting by AfterQuery, University SWE Expert
$300 per codebase you connect and use as a basis for tasksper codebase connected
- AfterQuery: median advertised hourly pay across its open AI-training roles (AITraining.jobs)
Median of the rates AfterQuery states in its live job feed, with the 25th to 75th percentile band $45-$101/hr; one platform's rate card, not a market rate. Same owner as AIData.Broker.
A catalogue or marketplace listing, AITraining.jobs, The State of AI Training Pay 2026 (by platform)
$75/hr median; typical $45-$125/hrper hour (median advertised rate, paid to the worker)
- Scientific-computing task (main problem, subproblems, reference solution, tests) authored from the researcher's own work, AfterQuery Scientific Researcher (Computational Task Author)
About $100 an hour at AfterQuery's own time estimate, matching the listing's structured $100 hourly pay.
The payer's own page, AITraining.jobs, AfterQuery Scientific Researcher, Computational Task Author (AfterQuery's posting, mirrored)
$200 per approved task, about 2 hours eachper approved task of about 2 hours
- Research-grade scientific-computing evaluation task authored from the researcher's own computational work, AfterQuery Scientific Computing Research Expert
About $75 an hour at AfterQuery's own time estimate, which matches the listing's structured $75 hourly pay; most tasks need a round or two of revision before approval.
The payer's own page, AITraining.jobs, AfterQuery Scientific Computing Research Expert (AfterQuery's posting, mirrored)
$300 per approved task, roughly 4 hours of work eachper approved task of about 4 hours
- Bilingual Hebrew and English audio contributor for AI training (AfterQuery)
Posted about a month before it was read. Rate as the platform states it, carried by AITraining.jobs, which has the same owner as AIData.Broker.
A catalogue or marketplace listing, AITraining.jobs, Bilingual Audio Contributor (Hebrew/English) at AfterQuery
$30/hrper hour (paid to the contributor)
- Audio recording contributor with an Australian English accent (AfterQuery)
A specific accent commands more than general English recording at the same buyer. Rate as the platform states it, carried by AITraining.jobs, which has the same owner as AIData.Broker.
A catalogue or marketplace listing, AITraining.jobs, Audio Recording Contributor - Australian English Accent at AfterQuery
$50/hrper hour (paid to the speaker)
- Code repository seeded with an OSS-fuzz-style vulnerability plus a validated patch, AfterQuery Cybersecurity Expert
The posting states two figures for the same accepted task, $300 in its headline and $50 in its next sentence, plus bonuses up to $180 per repository; the range keeps both. The listing's structured pay also shows $75 an hour.
The payer's own page, AITraining.jobs, AfterQuery Cybersecurity Expert (AfterQuery's posting, mirrored)
Earn $300 per accepted task. Each successfully accepted task pays $50per accepted task
- Software Engineer (RL Environments) at AfterQuery
Base only in low/high; with the stated bonus, cash reaches $460K to $690K a year. The role designs simulations, data and evaluations for frontier labs.
The payer's own page, AfterQuery on Ashby, Software Engineer - RL Environments
$260K – $290K • Offers Equity • $200K – $400K Bonusper year (base salary; bonus of $200K to $400K on top)
What AfterQuery earns
Revenue, run rates and ARR as each was published. Run rates are often a best month times twelve, and gross figures include what passes through to experts.
- run-rate Apr 2026Measurerun-rateFigure$100M
Funding and acquisitions
- 1 Sep 2026EventfundingValuation$3.2B
- 10 Apr 2026EventSeries AAmount$30MValuation$300M
Cite this
AIData.Broker, “AfterQuery in the AI training data market”, reviewed 15 Oct 2026. https://aidata.markets/companies/afterquery
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