Fixpoint

What Fixpoint does

Fixpoint is a New York-based, Y Combinator-backed company that automates human data operations for AI data companies through two integrated offerings: a white-glove Expert Staffing service that sources, vets, and manages remote teams of expert annotators, and a programmatic Vetting API that verifies candidate education, credentials, publications, and professional licenses in minutes. Its core technology combines AI-powered web research agents with multi-source cross-referencing across academic databases (Google Scholar, ORCID), professional license registries, university websites, and publication records, augmented by entity resolution and confidence scoring to disambiguate common names and surface fraud — claimed to catch 10x more fraudulent applicants than manual review at $3 per verification versus $12+ for traditional services.

The company serves AI data companies that need to scale expert workforces for tasks such as contract review, clinical research, data science, and localization, across verticals including legal, medical, STEM, coding, and linguistics. Its go-to-market pairs enterprise field sales (demos and multi-year custom staffing contracts) with self-serve API access for automated onboarding verification, supported by documentation, developer relations via GitHub, and organic social channels. Fixpoint monetizes through professional-services staffing fees and usage-based API pricing, and is pursuing GDPR, CCPA, and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance to access enterprise and regulated buyers.

Founded in 2023 by Dylan Mikus (CEO) and Jakub Cichon (CTO), Fixpoint operates with 1–10 employees from its headquarters at 169 Madison Ave, New York, and raised $500K from Y Combinator in December 2025.

Name

Fixpoint

Legal name

Fixpoint, Inc.

Website

https://fixpoint.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Fixpoint is a New York-based, Y Combinator-backed platform that automates expert annotator sourcing, vetting, and HR for AI data companies via white-glove staffing services and a programmatic Vetting API for credential verification.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Data Services

NAICS

Investigation and Personal Background Check Services (561611), Testing Laboratories and Services (541380)

SIC

Services-Help Supply Services (7363), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Human Oversight, Review & Content Moderation Tooling (HDAAAMAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Audit, Explainability & Accountability Tooling (traceability, reporting) (HDAAAKAL), Responsible AI, AI Governance & Compliance Services (BPAEAHAJ), Data Quality, Profiling & Validation (within Integration) (HDAEACAI)

Keywords

• Expert staffing services
• Credential verification API
• AI data labeling
• Background verification
• Vetted talent network

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. White-Glove Expert Staffing Services: Fixpoint sources, vets, and hires expert annotator teams for AI data companies. They manage the entire HR process including sourcing, vetting, compliance, time tracking, and payments. Revenue generated through staffing fees based on team size and project scope.
2. Vetting API: API-based verification service starting at $3 per verification. Customers plug the API into their onboarding workflow to automatically verify education, credentials, and backgrounds of applicants in minutes.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Fixpoint supplies on-demand, pre-vetted domain experts to AI data companies through a white-glove staffing service. The company also offers a Vetting API that programmatically verifies education, credentials, and professional backgrounds for organizations that need reliable background checks at scale.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Expert Staffing (White-Glove) A white-glove staffing service that matches AI data companies with vetted domain experts (including PhDs) for short- and long-term engagements. Buyers are AI training data and data labeling organizations that need qualified human experts.
• Vetting API An API that programmatically verifies education, credentials, and professional backgrounds of candidates or contractors. Designed for AI data companies, staffing firms, and any organization that needs reliable background checks at scale. Includes PhD verification as a sub-feature.

Quantifiable outcome

• Staff hundreds of qualified experts in weeks instead of months
• +3 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability5 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Checkr: Checkr is a background check API platform for employment screening. It is comparable to Fixpoint's Vetting API in product form (developer-first API for credential verification), though Checkr's primary use case is general employment background checks rather than AI annotator vetting.
• Snorkel AI: Snorkel AI provides programmatic data labeling and AI data development platforms. It overlaps with Fixpoint as a tooling layer for AI training data, though it focuses more on weak supervision and synthetic labeling than on expert human annotation.

Direct peers

• CloudFactory: CloudFactory provides managed teams of trained data labelers for AI and machine learning projects. It is a direct competitor to Fixpoint's expert staffing offering, focused on delivering scalable annotated workforces.
• Scale AI: Scale AI is the dominant AI data labeling and evaluation platform serving foundation model labs and enterprises. It is the most direct competitor to Fixpoint's expert staffing and annotation services, operating at much greater scale with full-stack RLHF and evaluation tooling.
• Surge AI: Surge AI is a frontier data labeling platform focused on expert annotation for foundation models, with a comparable emphasis on quality and domain expertise (legal, medical, creative). It is a directly competing specialist in the same niche Fixpoint targets.
• Toloka AI: Toloka AI is a crowdsourced data labeling platform serving AI companies with a global contributor base. It competes with Fixpoint on both expert annotation sourcing and on providing verifiable contributor quality at scale.
• Labelbox: Labelbox is a data labeling platform with a managed workforce offering for AI teams. Its combination of annotation tooling plus staffed labeling services overlaps directly with Fixpoint's white-glove staffing and API approach.
• Invisible Technologies: Invisible Technologies provides AI training data operations and managed expert workforces for AI companies. It is a direct competitor to Fixpoint's expert staffing motion, with broader process outsourcing capabilities.
• Sama: Sama is an AI data annotation provider operating secure, vetted workforces for computer vision and NLP model training. It is a directly comparable peer given its emphasis on quality-controlled expert annotator teams for AI customers.

Broad incumbents

• Appen: Appen is a publicly-traded incumbent providing large-scale data annotation and crowdsourcing services for AI. It competes broadly with Fixpoint's expert staffing offering, though it focuses more on volume data labeling than vetted expert teams.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses2 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/gofixpoint
• GitHubgithub.com/gofixpoint
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gofixpoint

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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