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SOVEREIGN DATA ANNOTATION · WORKERS OWN THEIR WORK · LLMs TRAIN ON SIGNED DATA
WORKER-FIRSTMULTI-RAIL PAYSIGNED PROVENANCESODOR ISLANDSMIT INFRASTRUCTUREEARLY ACCESS
A sovereign data annotation platform built by people who actually use the tools and are tired of being paid through PayPal once a quarter from a black box.
"DataAnnotation.tech, Scale, Surge, Outlier · they make billions training frontier LLMs · pay their workers through one rail · own all the work history · ban accounts without recourse · and answer to no one. fallanno is the alternative. Operator-owned. Worker-attributed. Sovereign."
The Sodor Islands manifesto
Annotators built modern AI. They wrote the RLHF data that shaped GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, every frontier model on the leaderboard. They are paid least, credited never, and treated as interchangeable.
fallanno is the platform where annotators are operators, not parts. Every annotation is signed with your Ed25519 key. Your work history is yours. You take it with you. You can prove it to anyone. You're paid through whichever rail clears fastest. You vote on the rubric. You appeal to peers, not algorithms.
We're coming for the data-labelling economy. Not by undercutting on price · by paying fairly, attributing properly, and shipping the audit chain frontier labs actually want.
The honest comparison
| DataAnnotation | Scale / Outlier | fallanno |
| Worker-owned attribution | No | No | Yes (Ed25519 per task) |
| Multi-rail payment | PayPal only | Limited | Stripe + PayPal + Wise + crypto + invoice |
| Global from day one | US-favoured | Selective | Anywhere fallpay rails reach |
| Workers see who's grading them | No | No | Peer review via fallnet |
| Portable work history | No | No | Signed ledger you export anytime |
| Open-source platform | Closed | Closed | MIT infrastructure · client can verify pipeline |
| Account ban appeal process | Opaque | Opaque | Peer-jury · signed evidence |
| Provenance for LLM clients | Limited | Internal-only | Audit chain · client-verifiable |
The architecture · built on the estate
fallanno isn't built from scratch · it's assembly. Every sovereign tool in the AI Native Solutions estate slots in:
- fallshield · every annotation Ed25519-signed by the worker · cryptographic attribution
- fallpay · multi-rail payout · Stripe + PayPal + Wise + crypto + invoice
- fallcore · sovereign LLM proxy for QC · no Anthropic/OpenAI dependency in the rating layer
- fallcompass · 8-provider cascade for task routing · if any LLM gates, the system fails over
- fallnet · peer review · P2P quality control between workers
- fallforce · the CRM for LLM-company clients · pipeline + audit chain
- fallform · annotator onboarding intake
- falllist · worker comms · weekly digest of task availability + rate changes
- fallvault · worker portfolio · their signed work history, encrypted, backed up
- Konomi audit chain · every state change prevHash + Ed25519 signed
Four tiers · operator-grade business model
Free Annotator
TBA · earn from tasks
Anyone with a keyboard and a high IQ for the work
- Free fallshield identity (Ed25519 keypair)
- Browse open task pool · pick what you want
- Get paid through whichever rail works for you
- Build a portable signed reputation
Pro Annotator (after 100 tasks · peer-graded ≥4.5★)
TBA to upgrade · earn 2-4× more
Veterans who've proven their work
- Access higher-rate task pools (specialised / long-form / multi-turn dialogue)
- Governance vote on rubric changes
- Mentor new annotators · earn referral bonuses
- Apply to peer-jury (paid to review disputes)
LLM Client API
TBA - TBA per item · bespoke per task type
Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, Cohere, any AI lab needing RLHF data
- Upload task pool · pick rubric template (or define custom)
- Real-time fulfilment dashboard · cost + throughput visible
- Download results with full audit chain · provenance per item
- SLA · 24h-7d completion depending on tier
Enterprise Integration
TBAk+ setup · bespoke per scope
Frontier labs with custom needs · regulated industries
- White-label · your branding, your domain, our infrastructure
- Custom rubric · specialised annotator pool · NDA workflows
- SOC 2 / HIPAA / ISO 27001 compliance shim (via fallshield audit)
- Dedicated success engineer + SLA · API for your existing pipelines
For workers · what makes this different
- You own your work. Every annotation is signed with YOUR key. You export your history. You take it to another platform when you want. No lock-in.
- Multi-rail payment. Stripe stuck? Use PayPal. PayPal frozen? Use Wise. All blocked? Use crypto. Invoice instead. Your money flows.
- Peer review · not algorithm. When your work is challenged, real humans grade · with signed votes. Appeals work. Algorithms don't accidentally ban you.
- Global by default. If you can ID-verify and the rail can reach you, you're in. No US-favoritism. No "this country isn't supported."
- Higher rates per item. Cutting the middleman by 30-40% means the worker takes home more, the LLM client pays the same. Win-win.
For LLM clients · what makes this different
- Signed provenance. Every item in your training set ships with cryptographic proof of who annotated it, when, after how many revisions. Audit-grade.
- No vendor lock. The platform is MIT. You can verify the pipeline. Self-host if you want. Migrate workers in/out.
- Sovereign data pipeline. Your data doesn't sit on a centralized server you don't control. Use fallcdn / fallcore / fallcompass · run the rating layer wherever you trust.
- Better worker economics = better worker quality = better data. We're not racing to the bottom.
Status · v1 launching Q3 2026
- Platform landing (this page) · ✓ live
- Sodor Islands manifesto · ✓ live
- Worker portal MVP · in build · Q2 2026
- Client portal MVP · in build · Q2 2026
- Beta annotator cohort · Q2 2026 · 50 workers selected
- First LLM client contract · Q3 2026 target
- Public launch · Q3 2026
Early access · join the Sodor Islands
Workers · we're recruiting the first 50 annotators for the beta cohort. If you've done DataAnnotation, Outlier, Scale, or similar · we want to talk. Higher rates, sovereign attribution, multi-rail payment.
LLM clients · if you're an AI lab and the current annotation marketplaces are giving you provenance headaches · talk to us. We'll demo the audit chain in 20 minutes.
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License
fallanno infrastructure (UI, audit chain, payment routing) is MIT · fork it. The marketplace itself (matching, dispute resolution, reputation) is operator-run · pricing is bespoke.
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