Crowdgen

Appen's contributor platform providing crowd-sourced AI training data through annotation, evaluation, and content moderation tasks globally.

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Chatswood, Australia HQ
1000+ company size
1996 founded

What is Crowdgen?

Crowdgen is Appen's contributor platform, launched in September 2024and headquartered in Chatswood, Australia (with a US office in Kirkland, Washington). The platform specializes in enhancing data quality for AI and machine learning through crowd-sourced solutions, supporting the development, training, and validation of ML and AI models. Crowdgen offers a wide range of tasks including data annotation and labeling, content moderation, sentiment analysis, transcription, Q&A pair creation, video evaluation, facial recognition annotation, and AI assistant interaction recording. The platform serves major technology companies, enterprises, and research organizations with a focus on data quality, scalability, and ethical AI practices. Crowdgen embraces a global community with contributors in over 200 countries supporting more than 500 languages. Most roles are beginner-friendly with flexible hours, project-based work, and earnings paid in US dollars via PayPal, Venmo, CashApp, Payoneer, or Airtm.

Mission & values

Power the world's AI through Appen's 1M+ contributor crowd — provide ethically-sourced training data for speech, text, image, and video AI.

Qualifications

Most Crowdgen projects are designed to be beginner-friendly and do not require prior work experience or a background in technology — user-friendly guides and training are provided. A reliable internet connection and a laptop or desktop computer are required, and Google Chrome (fresh installation without third-party extensions) is often needed for optimal performance. Some projects require passing a qualification assessment or language exam. Contributors must work from their registered state and country of residence and cannot work on projects when outside their residing country. For specialized roles, additional requirements apply: facial recognition annotator roles may require US or Canada residency, native English proficiency, and a background in arts, photography, or design; history prompt generation roles require an advanced degree in History and native-level English; linguistic roles require specific language proficiency. Crowdgen will never ask applicants to pay to join projects.

Leadership

R

Ryan Kolln

CEO, Appen (parent company)

Hiring process

  1. 1

    Sign up at crowdgen.com

    Create your CrowdGen account (replacing the legacy Appen Connect portal as of September 2024).

  2. 2

    Profile setup

    List languages, location, demographics, equipment, and skill areas.

    About 1 day

  3. 3

    Browse and apply to projects

    See pay rate per project upfront before accepting.

  4. 4

    Pass project-specific qualifying tests

    Domain-specific assessments unlock individual project pools.

    About 3 days

  5. 5

    Complete tasks and get paid

    Withdraw via PayPal, Payoneer, Airtm, or bank transfer once you reach the project's minimum.

    About 7 days

Funding

StagePublic

Awards & recognition

  • Public on ASX (ticker: APX)

    Australian Securities Exchange

  • 1M+ contributors over 25 years

    Appen

Company information

Frequently asked questions

Who is behind CrowdGen?
CrowdGen is the contributor platform of Appen, a publicly-traded AI training data company (ASX: APX) founded in 1996 with 25+ years of experience and 1M+ contributors over its history.
When did CrowdGen launch?
September 14, 2024 — replacing the legacy Appen Connect portal.
How are pay rates set?
Each project lists its pay rate upfront before you apply. Reviews show simple annotation/evaluation tasks at $10–$15/hr; specialist and rare-language tasks pay more.
What payout methods are available?
PayPal, Payoneer, Airtm, bank transfer, and other locale-specific options.

Stay in the loop.

One email per week, 5 hand-picked roles.