ABOUT US

Our Story

For over a decade, Sama has been committed to making an impact — on AI development and the world at large. Learn how we’re raising standards for both machine learning and global working conditions.

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Our Mission

To accelerate and advance computer vision AI development by providing the most accurate, scalable, and ethical data pipeline.

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Our Vision

To provide data scientists, ML engineers, and data operations teams with an indispensable, integrated platform for AI data preparation, labeling, and collection.

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Our Values: The Sama Way

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One Team, One Goal

We are driven to surpass company objectives. We win together, we fail together and we learn together. We each make decisions on what’s best for Sama and our mission.

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Deliver. Period.

We focus on what moves the needle and double down quickly on what’s impactful. We are solutions oriented and driven by the end result. We demand excellence from each other.

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Trust & Transparency

We trust our teammates to make the right decisions, empowering them with both information and ownership. We believe in the power of authentic feedback. Transparency and trust accelerate us towards our shared goals.

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Customer First

We see our own success through our customers’ outcomes. We approach every situation with a customer-first mindset.

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Humanity

We embody Ethical AI. We believe that purpose and profit go hand in hand and we operate our business this way. We are proud to be a triple bottom line business.

“Leila’s efforts were motivated by the same guiding principle – that in providing dignity through work, we can eliminate world poverty – and over the years she found new ways to fulfill that mandate.”

Leila Janah
Leila Janah
Founder, Sama
Leila Janah

About Our Founder

Leila Janah, our late founder, firmly believed that providing meaningful, dignified, living wage work is the best way to permanently lift people out of poverty. She founded Sama in 2008 driven by the belief that “talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not.”

One of the first AI companies to be certified as a B Corp, a company dedicated to building a sustainable and inclusive economy. It’s in our DNA.

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The Ethical AI Supply Chain: Purpose-Built for Impact

Our platform provides a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for all your AI training data development requirements.

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The Ethical AI Supply Chain: Purpose-Built for Impact

Our platform provides a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for all your AI training data development requirements.

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