Vendor profileChecked Nov 8, 2026

Handshake AI

Part of Handshake (Stryder Corp. dba Handshake) · joinhandshake.com · Last checked:

  • Expert network for AI training
  • Post-training data
  • Enterprise agents & model training

Company status

Active business line of Handshake, privately held.

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Capabilities

  • Fellowship program that sources experts and generalists for AI training work (vendor states a 750k+ community)
  • Post-training datasets for frontier labs (vendor states 8/8 largest frontier labs train with its datasets)
  • In-house research team (vendor states 200+ researchers) publishing on RL environments, post-training, and agentic grading
  • Enterprise agent builds and model training

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Who it tends to fit

  • Labs needing large, credentialed expert pools for post-training data
  • Enterprises wanting agents built and models trained with a data vendor

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Pricing

Contact vendor (talk to our team)

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Published certifications

  • SOC 2 Type II (Handshake trust portal)
  • GDPR compliance (Handshake trust portal)
  • TX-RAMP, UK Cyber Essentials, PCI SAQ-D, CCPA, EU-U.S. DPF (Handshake-wide)

Trust portal covers Handshake broadly; confirm scope includes Handshake AI services.

Listed as stated by the vendor. Scope can differ by product or subsidiary; request current reports.

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Limitations to check

  • No public pricing
  • Lab-reach, community-size, and researcher-count figures are vendor statements

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Sources

  1. Enterprise page: agents and model training; '8/8 largest frontier labs train with Handshake AI datasets', '30M+ experts', '200+ in-house researchers'; research on RL environments, post-training, agentic gradingjoinhandshake.com/ai/enterprise/Checked 2026-11-08
  2. AI fellowship page: 750k+ community, $500M+ payouts (vendor statements)joinhandshake.com/ai/Checked 2026-11-08
  3. Trust portal: SOC 2 Type II attestation, TX-RAMP, UK Cyber Essentials, GDPR compliance, PCI SAQ-D, CCPA, EU-U.S. DPFtrust.joinhandshake.com/Checked 2026-11-08

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