People
Real contributors provide information from real environments, creating a human layer between technology and the world.
WHO WE ARE
THE REAL
WORLD IS
THE DATA.
Dabbies is a people-powered data company building infrastructure around real human experiences, environments and activity.
PARTICIPATE ↗
DABBIES / 001
ABOUT
06°27′N
03°24′E
D
AFRICA / WORLD
CONNECTED
02
THE IDEA
TECHNOLOGY CAN
SEE MORE WHEN
PEOPLE CONTRIBUTE.
Artificial intelligence is becoming part of almost everything around us. But intelligent systems are only as useful as the information they learn from.
Dabbies exists to connect technology with the physical world. We create systems through which people can contribute useful, authentic data from their everyday environments.
The result is a bridge between people who live in the real world and companies building technology that needs to understand it.
03
DABBIES
NOT JUST
DATA.
Data
Voice, images, text, video and other forms of real-world information can become useful training and evaluation material.
Infrastructure
Dabbies organizes collection, quality control and delivery so useful data can move from the physical world into technology.
THE SYSTEM
FROM
PEOPLE
TO
INTELLIGENCE.
01
PEOPLE
Contributors capture real-world information.
02
DABBIES
Data is collected, organized and quality-checked.
03
TECHNOLOGY
Useful datasets support companies building intelligent systems.
AFRICA
06°27′N / 03°24′E
WHERE WE BEGIN
AFRICA
IS NOT
AN EDGE CASE.
Africa contains an enormous range of languages, environments, cultures, accents, behaviours and everyday experiences.
These realities matter when technology is expected to work for people everywhere.
Dabbies starts here because the continent should not simply consume the technologies of the future. It should help shape the data behind them.
04
HOW WE THINK
A FEW THINGS
WE BELIEVE.
01
Real data matters.
The world is messy, diverse and constantly changing. Data should reflect that reality rather than erase it.
02
Contributors are part of the infrastructure.
People providing data are not an afterthought. Their time, context and contribution are fundamental to the system.
03
Quality beats quantity.
More data is not automatically better. Useful datasets need consistency, context and careful quality control.
04
Build quietly. Build properly.
We care more about infrastructure that works than noise around infrastructure that does not.
WHAT WE BUILD
IDEAS BECOME
INFRASTRUCTURE.
Dabbies is being built as a connected system rather than a single feature. Collection, participation, quality, payments and delivery all belong to the same infrastructure.
OUR POSITION
WE DON'T BUILD
FOR NOISE.
We are interested in the infrastructure underneath the technology people use every day.
The invisible systems. The human contributions. The information that makes intelligent technology more useful.
THE NEXT PART
HELP US
BUILD
IT.
Your everyday world can become part of something much bigger.
JOIN DABBIES ↗