Name

Humane Intelligence

Legal name

Humane Intelligence

Website

https://humane-intelligence.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Safety Evaluation Services

NAICS

Educational Services (611), Educational Support Services (611710), Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Model Security Testing & Red Teaming (adversarial ML, jailbreaks) (HDAAAKAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Safety & Alignment Evaluation (red-teaming, harmful capability testing) (HDAAAMAL), Bias, Fairness & Non-Discrimination Testing (HDAAAMAC), Regulatory Readiness & Audit Automation (e.g., EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001) (HDAAAMAE), Responsible AI, AI Governance & Compliance Services (BPAEAHAJ)

Keywords

• AI red teaming
• Bias bounty programs
• AI contextual evaluations
• Responsible AI assessments
• AI safety audits

Headquarters

HQ city

Melbourne

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Services - AI Red Teaming: Humane Intelligence offers red teaming events as a paid service using their own software platform. Organizations hire them to assess and improve the safety and effectiveness of their AI models and systems through structured adversarial testing.
2. Professional Services - AI Contextual Evaluations: Rigorous, mixed-method, bespoke evaluations designed to give comprehensive analysis of an AI model or system's performance for a specified problem space. Offered as a paid service, with knowledge graph/ontological approaches for complex, high-stakes evaluations.
3. Grants and Philanthropic Funding: As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Humane Intelligence relies on grant funding from foundations including Google.org, Heising-Simons Foundation, and others. Major funded initiatives include OSS AI red teaming app release and bias bounties at scale on Zindi.

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Humane Intelligence is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that designs and runs human-centered AI evaluation services, including paid AI red teaming events, contextual evaluations using knowledge graph/ontology methodologies, and community-driven bias bounty challenges. It supports these services with proprietary software (Red Teaming App, Bias Scoring API) and a globally distributed network of evaluators, while also delivering educational content such as a LinkedIn Learning course on AI evaluations.

Product overview

Humane Intelligence is a nonprofit that operates a portfolio of products and services centered on human-centered AI evaluation. The core product is the Red Teaming App, a web application for conducting adversarial testing events and contextual evaluations of AI systems. Supporting products include the Bias Scoring API (for automated bias disparity measurement on Zindi challenges), and the Bias Bounties on Zindi platform for scaled challenge delivery. The organization also offers LinkedIn Learning educational content and professional services including AI Red Teaming, Contextual Evaluations, and Bias Bounty Challenge Sets. The Red Teaming App is transitioning to open source in Q4 2026. The product ecosystem is designed to serve clients ranging from governments and enterprises to community organizations, with evaluation methodologies spanning taxonomical and ontological approaches.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Red Teaming App: A web application designed for data collection aspects of hosted red teaming events and contextual evaluation services.
• AI Evaluations for Everyone

Products and services

• AI Red Teaming Services Paid consulting service that uses Humane Intelligence's own software and methodology to conduct semi-structured adversarial testing of AI models and systems, identifying vulnerabilities, limitations, and potential areas for improvement for organizations deploying AI.
• AI Contextual Evaluations Rigorous, mixed-method, bespoke evaluations that give a comprehensive analysis of an AI model or system's performance for a specified problem space, using knowledge graph/ontological problem space mapping and stratified prompt collections.
• Bias Bounty Challenge Sets Collaboratively designed sets of challenges that bring together researchers, impacted communities, and domain experts to rigorously examine and improve AI/ML systems, models, and datasets, with previous challenge sets covering transparency, extremism, Indian forestry, and accessibility in conferencing facilities.
• Red Teaming App A web application designed for the data collection aspects of hosted red teaming events and contextual evaluation services, enabling evaluators to create, manage, and execute prompt-based adversarial tests against AI models and systems, with capabilities for scenario creation, prompt stratification, response annotation, and vulnerability identification.
• Bias Bounties on Zindi A bias bounty program delivered through Zindi's global data science challenge platform, enabling participants to identify and address algorithmic bias in AI systems, with technical and community tracks for data scientists and impacted community members.
• AI Red Teaming App (Open Source Release) Planned open source software release of the AI Red Teaming App, enabling organizations and individuals to self-deploy and conduct their own red teaming evaluations under an open source license.
• LinkedIn Learning Course: AI Evaluations for Everyone A 25-chapter educational course teaching non-engineers how to evaluate AI systems, covering AI evaluation fundamentals, problem space mapping, taxonomy vs. ontology approaches, red teaming design, exploits, and vulnerability types, including a hands-on sample AI red teaming project.

Quantifiable outcome

• More than 5,300 people participated in Humane Intelligence events across five continents
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability5 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

23 partnerships are on record, tiered minor, core and major.

• LinkedIn LearningminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 June 2026Humane Intelligence published a 25-chapter course 'AI Evaluations for Everyone: How Non-Engineers Can Build Better AI Systems' on LinkedIn Learning, available June 30 – September 30, 2026. Production support from Natalie Pao, Lori Kallestad, Ryan Turpin, Joni Deluccio, Dione Johnson, and Lalita Segal.
• Radiant EarthcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2025Radiant Earth is partnering with Humane Intelligence and Zindi to host bias bounty challenges on geospatial and climate adaptation domains. Radiant Earth brings its Source Cooperative data publishing utility (2+ petabytes of data across 300+ data products, 100M+ data requests per month) and climate science expertise to the collaboration. Executive Director Jed Sundwall is a co-author on the partnership announcement.
• ZindicoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2025Zindi is partnering with Humane Intelligence and Radiant Earth to host bias bounty challenges on its global data science platform. Zindi brings over 100,000 data scientists and AI practitioners across 185+ countries (60%+ in sub-Saharan Africa, 28% women), with over $1M awarded in challenge prizes. The platform will host the pilot bias bounty on geospatial and climate adaptation in Q3 2026.
• NYU Center for Health Data Science (CHDS)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2025Humane Intelligence launched a new AI in Public Health working group in partnership with Dr. Rumi Chunara and CHDS at NYU. The working group creates an open forum for topical discussions on AI in public health and explores creating an AI public health fund. The kickoff call drew nearly 50 participants in December 2025.
• Valence AImajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2025Humane Intelligence collaborated with Valence AI and CoNA Lab at Virginia State University for the Accessibility Bias Bounty Challenge Set 4, focused on improving accessibility for neurodivergent users in virtual meeting platforms and emotion AI fairness. Valence AI provided their emotion recognition platform and open model for bias testing.
• CoNA Lab at Virginia State UniversitymajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2025Humane Intelligence partnered with the Cognitive and Neurodiversity AI (CoNA) Lab at Virginia State University's Center for Equitable AI and Machine Learning Systems, an HBCU partner, for the Accessibility Bias Bounty. Led by Gabriella Waters, CoNA contributed expertise in neurodiversity, cognitive science, and ethical AI system design.
• CompilerminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 July 2025Compiler collaborated on the UNGA 80 side-event hosted by Humane Intelligence, contributing to event coordination alongside Tech Salon and the Heising-Simons Foundation.
• NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2025NIST supported a nationwide AI red-teaming exercise led by Humane Intelligence, using the NIST AI Risk Management Framework 600-1. Four model owners (Anote, Meta, Robust Intelligence/Cisco, Synthesia) participated, testing generative AI robustness, security, and ethical implications. The exercise advanced AI resilience through adversarial testing.
• AI & Society House Expo PartnersmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2025Humane Intelligence hosted AI & Society House at the Paris AI Action Summit with expo partners including IMDA Singapore, Revontulet, FEMYSO, CISA, NIST, UK Royal Society, and Revontulet. The event featured technical demos and six panels on public interest technology and AI societal impact.
• CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2025CISA participated as an expo partner at AI & Society House at the Paris AI Action Summit, showcasing collaboration on addressing societal impact of AI models.
• UK AI Safety InstitutemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2025The UK AI Safety Institute (Clara Pelly, Deputy Director, International) participated as a panelist in the AI & Society House event discussing international collaborations on AI safety.
• Canadian AI Safety InstitutemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2025The Canadian AI Safety Institute (Samir Chhabra, Deputy Director) participated as a panelist in the AI & Society House event on international AI safety collaborations.
• CoheremajorTechnology or Integration · 1 February 2025Cohere participated as a partner in the IMDA Singapore AI safety red teaming challenge and Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Head of Safety at Cohere, participated as a panelist at AI & Society House on industry-civil society-government collaboration.
• FEMYSOminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2025FEMYSO (Alexandra Darby, Lead – A.I. and Digital Rights) participated as a panelist at AI & Society House addressing tech-facilitated gender-based violence and online hate, and as an expo partner at the Paris AI Action Summit.
• UK Royal SocietyminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2025The UK Royal Society participated as an expo partner at AI & Society House at the Paris AI Action Summit, collaborating on showcasing solutions for addressing societal impact of AI models.
• RSA ConferenceminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2025Humane Intelligence co-hosted a Human vs. Machine Learning Lab at RSA Conference 2025 with HydroX AI, an interactive red teaming experience where participants tested models across seven challenge areas including API vulnerability, access control, crime, discrimination, exhaustion attack, political sensitivity, and spam.
• TrustConminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2025Humane Intelligence co-hosted a workshop at TrustCon 2025, the conference for trust and safety practitioners, designed to help attendees connect abstract AI risks to enterprise impact and operational risk. Participants stress-tested mock AI systems including a Virtual Therapist chatbot and Ask the Historian educational assistant.
• Tech SalonminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2025Tech Salon collaborated on the UNGA 80 side-event alongside Compiler and Humane Intelligence, contributing to event organization and community convening.
• ReliablmajorTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2025Reliabl, an ML training and annotations software company led by Annie Brown (Humane Intelligence Bias Bounty Data Scientist and CEO), provides annotation services for Humane Intelligence's red teaming events and contextual evaluations. Annie Brown demonstrates Reliabl in the LinkedIn Learning course as a key tool for AI evaluation annotation workflows.
• Partnerships on AImajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Humane Intelligence joined Partnerships on AI in 2025 as a new partner, joining a global multistakeholder organization dedicated to responsible AI development and deployment.
• IMDA SingaporecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Humane Intelligence collaborated with IMDA Singapore and global AI leaders (Anthropic, AWS, Cohere, Google, Meta) to launch the first regional AI safety red teaming challenge in Asia Pacific. Participants from nine countries tested four LLMs for biases and stereotypes in English and regional languages. This was the largest AI red teaming event of its kind in the Asia Pacific region.
• UNESCOcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Humane Intelligence partnered with UNESCO in Paris for a red-teaming exercise on Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) held on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls. Participants examined embedded biases in generative AI models and assessed safety measures. The collaboration builds on UNESCO's extensive work on gender and AI.
• UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024UK FCDO collaborated with Humane Intelligence on workshops addressing tech-facilitated gender-based violence in Colombia and Nigeria, as part of work with UK DSIT on a report about Evaluating Survivor-Centric Tools for Intimate Image Abuse in the Age of Generative AI.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Emerging players

• Arthur AI: Arthur AI is an AI observability platform that monitors models for performance, bias, and drift in production. While it focuses on continuous monitoring rather than episodic red teaming, it overlaps with Humane Intelligence's bias/fairness evaluation capabilities for enterprise customers.

Broad incumbents

• UK AI Safety Institute: The UK AI Safety Institute is a government-backed evaluator that conducts pre-deployment evaluations of frontier AI models. It is a larger counterpart to Humane Intelligence in mission (public-interest AI safety evaluation) and works alongside Humane Intelligence on joint events.
• Scale AI (Red Team / Evaluation): Scale AI runs large-scale adversarial testing, red teaming, and human evaluation services for foundation model developers. It is a much larger commercial counterpart to Humane Intelligence's paid red teaming and contextual evaluation services.
• NIST (AI Innovation Lab / AI RMF): NIST develops the AI Risk Management Framework and partners with organizations like Humane Intelligence on nationwide red teaming exercises. As a government standards body, it is a much larger organization shaping the regulatory landscape in which Humane Intelligence's services are consumed.

Direct peers

• Holistic AI: Holistic AI is an AI governance platform offering bias audits, risk assessments, and regulatory readiness tooling for enterprises deploying AI. Like Humane Intelligence, it bridges the technical evaluation and policy/regulatory worlds.
• HiddenLayer: HiddenLayer is a commercial AI security company focused on adversarial attack protection, model scanning, and AI red teaming for enterprise deployments. It competes for the same enterprise customers that buy Humane Intelligence's paid AI red teaming services.
• METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research): METR is a nonprofit that conducts rigorous evaluations of frontier AI systems, particularly for autonomous capabilities and catastrophic risk. It is the closest nonprofit peer to Humane Intelligence in mission, methodology emphasis (independent evaluations), and funder base.
• Robust Intelligence (Cisco): Robust Intelligence is a commercial AI security and red teaming platform acquired by Cisco that offers automated adversarial testing, vulnerability scanning, and model validation. It directly competes with Humane Intelligence's AI red teaming services for enterprise AI model owners.
• Credo AI: Credo AI provides a governance, risk, and compliance platform for AI systems, helping enterprises inventory models and audit for bias, fairness, and regulatory risk. It overlaps with Humane Intelligence's bias and contextual evaluation offerings on the policy/compliance side of responsible AI.
• Apollo Research: Apollo Research is a nonprofit AI safety research org focused on evaluating frontier models for deceptive and scheming behavior. Like Humane Intelligence, it produces rigorous, third-party safety evaluations rather than commercial products, targeting model developers and policymakers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

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