What Sigma Cognition does

Sigma Cognition (legally SIGMA. AI, S.L.U. S.A., formerly Artificial Cognition, S.L.) is a private AI services and platform company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Madrid, Spain, with a US headquarters in Miami and additional presence in the UK. The company sits within the Sigma Group, an American holding entity, and is led by a research-credible team including CEO Daniel Tapias, PhD, CTO Jesus Bernat, PhD, and CSO Jean-Claude Junqua, PhD. Sigma Cognition sells enterprise AI trust, evaluation, and improvement services to large organizations across six verticals: Tech, Manufacturing, Legal, Health, Automotive, and Retail.

The company's core platform comprises three products — Governance & Evaluation (Evaluate), Training & Data (Train), and Build & Improve (Improve) — supplemented by the Sigma Truth generative AI quality validation platform (launched February 2026), proprietary AI Governance tooling aligned with the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF, and enterprise Data Clean Rooms in the EU, UK, and USA with GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 compliance. Sigma Cognition's most differentiated asset is a curated network of 70,000+ human evaluators and annotators covering 700+ languages and dialects, which feeds proprietary training pipelines and enables human-in-the-loop evaluation across text, image, video, audio, and multimodal AI systems. Disclosed technical benchmarks include 96.8% answer accuracy and 412ms average latency (p95 under 800ms) on the Sigma Eval platform.

The business operates a custom-priced enterprise sales motion targeting large organizations via consultative selling, pilots, demos, and 24/7 SLA-backed engagements. Revenue streams combine recurring subscription-based evaluation/governance services, project-based professional services for training and fine-tuning, and managed services for continuous improvement. The company claims 30+ enterprise clients including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, AWS, Samsung, EY, Deloitte, Telefonica, Orange, Stellantis, Cemex, Movistar, Renfe, and Agbar, alongside sector-specific engagements (Renault for ADAS, Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa for clinical validation). Sigma Cognition supplements commercial revenue with non-dilutive funding from EU programs including Horizon Europe, KDT Joint Undertaking, and Spain's CDTI (€3.8M grant for R3CAV in 2021).

Name

Sigma Cognition

Legal name

SIGMA. AI, S.L.U. S.A.

Website

https://sigmacognition.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Sigma Cognition is a private AI services and platform company that provides enterprise AI evaluation, training, governance, and improvement solutions across tech, manufacturing, legal, healthcare, automotive, and retail verticals, leveraging a 70,000-strong human annotator network and proprietary platforms aligned with EU AI Act compliance.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Trust, Governance and Evaluation Software

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Other Computer Related Services (541519)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise AI Governance, Risk & Compliance Platforms (Model Risk, Audit, Policies) (HDAEANAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety) (HDAEANAF), Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG), Responsible AI, AI Governance & Compliance Services (BPAEAHAJ), Regulatory Readiness & Audit Automation (e.g., EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001) (HDAAAMAE), Model Transparency, Explainability & Interpretability (XAI) (HDAAAMAB)

Keywords

• AI governance platform
• AI evaluation services
• Human-in-the-loop annotation
• AI training and fine-tuning
• Generative AI quality assurance

Headquarters

HQ city

Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. AI Evaluation Services: Subscription-based or project-based fees for comprehensive AI governance, evaluation, and benchmarking services. Includes performance metrics, bias detection, and regulatory compliance monitoring.
2. AI Training & Data Services: Fees for advanced training, fine-tuning, and data annotation services. Multi-modal training platform with human-in-the-loop annotation, typically charged per project or ongoing engagement.
3. AI Improvement & Optimization: Continuous improvement platform services including performance optimization, guardrail implementation, and ongoing monitoring. May include 24/7 support and SLA guarantees.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Sigma Cognition sells an AI trust and security infrastructure platform that evaluates, trains, and improves multi-model and multi-language AI systems for enterprise customers. Its core platform comprises three product lines — Governance & Evaluation, Training & Data, and Build & Improve — augmented by the Sigma Truth quality validation layer for generative AI, supported by secure data clean rooms and a 70,000+ human evaluator network.

Product overview

Sigma Cognition offers a unified AI trust and security infrastructure platform comprising three core products: Governance & Evaluation (Evaluate), Training & Data (Train), and Build & Improve (Improve). These are complemented by the Sigma Truth quality validation platform for generative AI, proprietary AI Governance Platforms, secure Data Clean Rooms, and a global Human Evaluators & Annotators Network (70,000+ annotators across 700+ languages). The platform portfolio includes vertical-specific AI solutions (Tech, Manufacturing, Legal, Health, Automotive, Retail) and research projects like AGENDA (multimodal anonymization), HADA (data annotation), and SAHARA (satellite imagery analysis).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Governance & Evaluation (Evaluate)

Quantifiable outcome

• 96.8% answer accuracy with +12 pts improvement post-evaluation
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability13 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• ItelligentcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Partnership for data space expertise in the AGENDA project, which focuses on generative and multimodal anonymization for unstructured data across text, voice, and image modalities.
• EcoMobility ConsortiummajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023EU-funded project (HORIZON-KDT-JU-2022-2-RIA) consortium of 47 partners from 9 countries developing adaptive framework for connected/electric vehicles. Sigma develops AI models for computer vision detection in Smart City framework.
• Sustronics ConsortiummajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023European R&D project consortium of 46 partners from 11 countries focused on sustainable electronics solutions combining technological innovation, energy efficiency and circular business models.
• ONALABScoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNon-invasive wearable biosensor company developing sweat-based glucose monitoring systems for the iDiabetes project with continuous sweat-based monitoring technology.
• LEITATcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch technology center developing saliva-based glucometer for point-of-care diabetes diagnosis as part of the iDiabetes project with sustainable, battery-free devices.
• Consorci Sanitari de TerrassacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerClinical partner for validation of iDiabetes non-invasive diabetes monitoring devices with healthy volunteers and type II diabetes patients.
• RenaultcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerASVIC project partner - advancing ADAS systems for connected intelligent vehicles with L4 automation level, with pilots at Valladolid and Palencia Renault Plants.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Appen: Global data annotation and dataset provider with multilingual coverage; comparable to Sigma Cognition's annotator network and training data services, though more established and publicly traded.
• Scale AI: Largest independent data annotation and RLHF provider serving generative AI builders; comparable to Sigma Cognition's training and human evaluator network but at much greater scale and with broader GTM.
• Telus International (data annotation): Large-scale AI data solutions provider including annotation, RLHF and dataset curation; competes with Sigma Cognition's annotator network for enterprise training data contracts.

Direct peers

• Fiddler AI: Responsible AI and model monitoring platform with explainability and bias detection, targeting similar enterprise governance buyers as Sigma Cognition.
• WhyLabs: AI observability platform for model monitoring, data quality and LLM guardrails; overlaps with Sigma Cognition's continuous monitoring and bias detection capabilities.
• Defined.ai: Data and AI services platform offering annotation, evaluation and training datasets for ML/NLP — comparable offering to Sigma Cognition's Training & Data and evaluation services.
• Arize AI: AI observability and evaluation platform for LLMs and ML models, providing drift, bias and quality monitoring — directly comparable to Sigma Cognition's Sigma Eval and governance offering.
• Robust Intelligence (Cisco): AI firewall and model security platform addressing prompt injection, jailbreaks and adversarial attacks — overlapping with Sigma Cognition's Responsible AI and security/governance positioning, now backed by Cisco.
• Arthur AI: AI observability and performance monitoring platform with model evaluation and guardrails; competes for the same ML platform / governance budget that Sigma Cognition targets.

Emerging players

• Monitaur: AI governance and assurance platform focused on model risk management, audit and compliance — closely aligned with Sigma Cognition's EU AI Act/NIST AI RMF governance focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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