Services and solutions that provide human intelligence already exist. For example,
Amazon Mechanical Turk, CrowdSource, Cloudfactory and CrowdFlower provide an
online workforce; Kaggle and Qlik DataMarket sell structured and labeled datasets;
and companies that need their data annotated privately, often use in-house teams to
do so.
The Fragments platform aims to make the barrier-to-entry lower for both anno-
tators and requesters and increase the efficiency of the market by workforce opti-
mization and decentralization. Below we elaborate on the unique propositions of the
Fragments platform