Our Story
After six years as the third engineer on Tesla's Autopilot AI team—reporting directly to Elon Musk—founder Emal Alwis saw what was missing.
Tesla consumes more computer vision training data than almost any organization on Earth. The lesson was clear: existing annotation vendors couldn't meet the demands of safety-critical AI. Models were trained on inconsistent labels, context was lost between vendors, and there was no way to trace a mistake back to its source.
Emal started Avala to build the data infrastructure he wished he had: a glass-box engine that replaces fragmented vendors with traceable ground truth. No more black-box labeling. No more context islands. One unified pipeline from sensor to deployment.
Today, Avala is powered by an experienced team from the self-driving, AI, gig economy, and trust and safety worlds. Our global workforce of 15,000+ specialized annotators across three continents delivers the quality and scale that traditional BPOs can't match.
Backed by partners who share our mission
What We Believe
Quality First
Our Human+AI hybrid model achieves consistent accuracy on complex annotations where full automation fails. Specialized coworkers build deep context over time.
Radical Transparency
Every annotation includes audit trails and verification checkpoints. You see what we see—no hidden processes, no surprise failures.
Ethical Operations
Fair wages, benefits, and career growth for every coworker. People-first operations drive quality at scale.
Built for Production
Everything we build is designed for safety-critical, real-world deployment. We handle over 1 billion annotations per day with built-in quality gates.
See how Avala powers the world's most demanding AI systems.