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Shaip
A healthcare- and conversational-AI data specialist — collection, licensing and annotation — now operating inside Ubiquity Global Services after its 2026 acquisition.
| Model | Managed service; part of Ubiquity Global Services since 2026 |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2018 |
| Headquarters | New York, NY |
| Pricing | Not published — quoted per program |
| Website | www.shaip.com |
What Shaip does
Shaip sells end-to-end AI data services: data collection, licensing, annotation and de-identification across text, audio, image and video, with its deepest bench in healthcare (medical records, clinical datasets) and conversational AI. It reports a vetted contributor community of more than 30,000 across 60+ countries and its own ShaipCloud/Shaip Data Platform tooling, launched in 2024.
In February 2026 Ubiquity Global Services announced its acquisition of Shaip, folding the company into a larger CX and operations group. A note on the public record: profiles disagree about Shaip’s basics — founding is given as 2018 in CB Insights’ record and 2021 in others, and Louisville, Kentucky (its earlier stated home) and New York both appear as headquarters across sources. We record the most current values and flag the disagreement rather than smoothing it over.
Strengths
- Healthcare and medical-data depth is a genuine specialty, including de-identification
- Collection plus licensing plus annotation in one vendor
- Now backed by Ubiquity’s global delivery footprint
Considerations
- Public records conflict on founding year and headquarters — diligence basics need confirming directly
- No published pricing
- Post-acquisition integration (2026) makes its roadmap and account ownership a live question
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- Surge AI — The bootstrapped quality maximalist: over $1 billion in 2024 revenue with no outside capital, built on credentialed experts rather than crowd volume.
- iMerit — A managed data-services company that pairs employed specialist teams with its Scholars expert network — and, since 2026, sits inside EXL.
- Sama — The original impact-sourcing annotation company: a Certified B Corp running managed programs with its own full-time workforce in Kenya and Uganda.
- CloudFactory — A managed-workforce company: trained analyst teams in Nepal and Kenya delivering annotation and data processing as a consumption-priced service.
- Cogito Tech — A US-registered managed annotation company whose India-based workforce and specialist consultants concentrate on healthcare, legal and financial AI data.
- Label Your Data — A managed annotation service that does the rarest thing in this market: publishes its per-unit prices, with no minimum order.
- Zilo AI — A Bangalore staffing-and-annotation firm with a distinct model: its annotators work inside the platform you already use, instead of selling you theirs.
- TELUS Digital — The telecom-owned data giant: TELUS’s digital arm runs one of the world’s largest AI data operations, built on the $935M acquisition of Lionbridge AI.
- Invisible Technologies — The operations company that became a frontier-lab data supplier: managed expert teams, an RL Data Lab, and the Meridial expert marketplace — valued above $2 billion in 2025 reporting.
- Innodata — The 1988 data-engineering veteran turned AI data supplier: a NASDAQ-listed managed service whose revenue more than doubled in a year on frontier-lab data work.
Frequently asked questions
What does Shaip do?
A healthcare- and conversational-AI data specialist — collection, licensing and annotation — now operating inside Ubiquity Global Services after its 2026 acquisition.
How much does Shaip cost?
Shaip does not publish pricing (not published — quoted per program). Any figure quoted by third parties is an estimate; budget discovery requires engaging the vendor directly.
Who is Shaip best for?
Healthcare, conversational AI and NLP programs that need domain data — clinical, speech, transcription — collected and annotated under compliance-aware processes.
Who should not use Shaip?
Buyers who need a stable independent counterparty to diligence in depth: the Ubiquity acquisition is recent, and Shaip’s public company facts are thinner and less consistent than peers’.
Sources
- Shaip company profile (founded 2018, New York, Ubiquity acquisition) — CB Insights
- Shaip by Ubiquity: services, New York HQ — Clutch
Facts on this page were drawn from the public sources above, checked November 2026. If you spot an error, tell us at the corrections address in the footer — we fix sourced errors and note the change.
Profile last updated: November 8, 2026 · How we write profiles · Corrections: [email protected]