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Prolific

Prolific helps dedicated research teams to collect the very highest-quality human-powered data - at scale - using our simple-to-use platform to target and manage participants from our diverse, vetted participant pool. The truth matters: the best decisions, and biggest discoveries, are built on the highest-quality data. And with the increasing proliferation of AI, access to reliable, diverse data to develop and train AI models has never been more important. Created by researchers for researchers,

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Prolific helps dedicated research teams to collect the very highest-quality human-powered data - at scale - using our simple-to-use platform to target and manage participants from our diverse, vetted participant pool. The truth matters: the best decisions, and biggest discoveries, are built on the highest-quality data. And with the increasing proliferation of AI, access to reliable, diverse data to develop and train AI models has never been more important. Created by researchers for researchers,

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Prolific is classified as AI infrastructure from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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shared extracted concepts: participants; shared product terms: participant, researcher, reliable, scale; same category: AI infrastructure

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shared product terms: research, human, researcher, acces

Sureform

match 44

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shared product terms: collect, quality, human, diverse; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Liva AI

match 44

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shared product terms: model, train, collect, target; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Tule

match 38

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shared extracted concept terms: research; shared product terms: decision, research, scale; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Archil

match 36

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shared product terms: acces, researcher, model, never; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator