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We Set the
Standard for
AI Data.

IntelliScan Standards Institute exists to bring order, credibility, and professional rigor to the AI data workforce — the human infrastructure that makes machine learning work.

Our Mission →
"AI systems are only as good as the humans who label, evaluate, and improve them. IntelliScan exists to make sure those humans are held to the highest professional standard."
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Dr. Amara Osei-Bonsu
Founder & Executive Director · IntelliScan
12K+
Certified Professionals
47+
Countries Reached
200+
Accredited Organizations
2021
Year Founded
Our Mission

Why IntelliScan
Exists

The AI industry has a workforce problem. Millions of people perform annotation, evaluation, and data operations work that shapes how AI systems behave — yet there was no global standard for what competence in this field looks like, no shared vocabulary, no recognized pathway from learner to expert.

IntelliScan was founded in 2021 to solve that. We developed the Artificial Intelligence Data Body of Knowledge (ADBOK) — the first comprehensive framework to define professional competency across AI data operations — and built a certification system on top of it that any professional in the world can access.

Today, the IntelliScan credential is the mark that AI organizations look for when they need to know that their data workforce meets the global standard. We're not just a certification body. We're infrastructure for the responsible development of AI.

Our work is governed by a multi-stakeholder board that includes AI practitioners, academic institutions, civil society representatives, and policymakers — because the standard that shapes AI's foundations deserves the most rigorous governance we can apply to it.

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Rigor Above All
We hold our credentialing process to the highest psychometric and governance standards. A credential from IntelliScan means something precise.
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Globally Accessible
AI data work is done everywhere. Our standards, exams, and credentials are accessible to any professional with an internet connection, in any country.
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Ethically Grounded
ADBOK places responsible AI and human-centered governance at the center of every credential level — because the workforce that trains AI shapes the values AI embodies.
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Continuously Evolving
AI moves fast. We maintain living governance processes to ensure ADBOK and our certifications stay current with the state of the field — updated annually.
Our History

From Idea to
Global Standard

Five years of building the infrastructure the AI data industry needed.

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2021 — Founded
IntelliScan Standards Institute Established
Founded in Nairobi with seed support from three partner universities and two AI platforms, IntelliScan began the two-year development process for what would become the ADBOK Framework.
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2022 — Framework Launch
ADBOK v1.0 Published
After 18 months of research, consultation with 200+ AI data practitioners, and review by a 40-member expert panel, ADBOK v1.0 was published as an open standard available to the global community.
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2023 — Certification Launch
First IntelliScan Exams Administered
The AAP and CAP credentials launched globally. Within 12 months, over 3,000 professionals had earned their first IntelliScan certification, with candidates from 31 countries in the inaugural cohort.
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2024 — Expansion
CADE & CADO Credentials + Enterprise Partnerships
Advanced practitioner and operations management credentials launched. IntelliScan signed the first enterprise partnerships with major AI platforms and national workforce development agencies.
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2025 — Scale
10,000 Certified Professionals Milestone
IntelliScan surpassed 10,000 credentialed professionals across 47 countries. ADBOK v2.0 launched with new domains covering RLHF evaluation, multimodal AI, and synthetic data governance.
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2026 — Today
The Global Standard for AI Data Operations
IntelliScan is now the recognized global standard body for AI data operations, with credentials trusted by leading AI organizations, enterprise platforms, and government agencies in 47+ countries.
Our Team

The People Who
Set the Standard

Our leadership team brings deep expertise across AI research, professional certification, workforce development, and responsible AI policy.

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Dr. Amara Osei-Bonsu
Founder & Executive Director
Former AI policy lead at the African Union. PhD in Information Science from University of Cape Town. Architect of the ADBOK Framework.
CADOCADE
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Dr. Rajan Mehta
Chief Standards Officer
Former Director of NLP Data at a major AI lab. 15 years in annotation workflow research. Leads ADBOK development and ongoing governance.
CAPCADE
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Sofia Marchetti
Head of Certification
Certified psychometrician and former head of credentialing at a major professional certification body. Oversees all exam design and quality assurance.
CADO
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Kwame Asante
Director of Partnerships
Former workforce development director with 12 years building industry-academic credential pipelines across Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.
AAP
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Elena Vasquez
Head of Learning & Content
Instructional designer and curriculum developer. Built the IntelliScan Learning platform and ADBOK-aligned course library from the ground up.
CAPCADE
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James Okafor
Head of Technology
Full-stack engineer and architect of the IntelliScan credentialing platform and global verification registry. Former engineering lead at two ed-tech startups.
AAP
Advisory Board

Guided by
Global Experts

Our advisory board includes leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers who ensure ADBOK reflects the real demands of the global AI data profession.

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Prof. Yuki Tanaka
AI Safety Research
Kyoto University
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Dr. Chidi Eze
Data Governance Policy
UN Tech Lab
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Maria Santos
Enterprise AI Ops
Fortune 500 AI
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Dr. Arjun Patel
Psychometrics & Assessment
Stanford GSE
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Fatima Al-Rashid
Workforce Development
OECD Skills
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Dr. Lucas Weber
NLP & Annotation Research
TU Berlin
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Ngozi Okonkwo
AI Ethics & Fairness
Responsible AI Inst.
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Prof. Jin-ho Park
Multimodal AI Data
KAIST
Join Us

Be Part of the
Global Standard

Whether you're certifying your skills or your workforce — IntelliScan is how the AI data profession holds itself accountable.