Research

Models are only as honest as the data they learn from.

The next generation of AI doesn't need more scraped audio. It needs deliberate, human-collected data — the kind that captures how real people talk to each other, across languages, accents, ages, and contexts that the open web simply doesn't represent.

Total AI was built to close that gap. We partner with frontier labs to design and capture the speech, audio, and video data their models actually need — to spec, with full provenance, and with the people in the recording fairly compensated and fully consenting to how their voice is used.

We believe three things, deeply:

First-party

Never bought, never scraped.

We never resell third-party data. Every recording is collected by our team, on purpose, for your spec.

Diversity

Representation isn't optional.

We over-index on the languages, accents, and demographics that the rest of the data world ignores.

Quality

Studio-grade is the floor, not the ceiling.

Spec-driven capture, multi-stage QA, and structured metadata on every file we ship.

Want to work with us?

Tell us what you're training and we'll scope a custom dataset.