APTO

What APTO does

APTO is a Japan-based AI data company that supports the development of high-performance AI through high-quality data collection, creation, annotation, and evaluation. They offer scalable, reliable, and human-in-the-loop data solutions to help companies build better AI models across LLM, VLM, robotics, and other advanced AI applications. APTO provides solutions ranging from platform offerings to individual development, including AI Data Platforms (SaaS), AI Solutions (contract development), and AI Datasets (downloadable). They focus on generating high-quality AI data to maximize AI's potential and create value for society, aiming to make data accessible for everyone to innovate.

Products

• APTO's DatasetsIndustry and application-specific data formats to address various AI data challenges, including Physical AI Data, 3D (LiDAR) Data, Text Data, Audio Data, Video Data, and Image Data. These datasets are designed for improving accuracy across diverse models and benchmarks.
• AI Data Platform (harBest Annotation)A monthly platform to supplement data shortages and data creation resources. It utilizes 20,000 cloud workers and a unique quality control system to efficiently collect and annotate image, video, audio, and text data. It offers a self-service model for data collection and annotation.
• harBest ExpertLeverages APTO's network of specialists as an in-house data development base. It handles data creation and delivery that requires advanced expertise in fields like medicine, finance, and manufacturing, providing high-quality annotation and data creation services by experts.
• AI SolutionsOne-stop service for model development and accuracy improvement. It covers AI-OCR, RAG, LLM development, and industry-specific AI, solving various AI challenges quickly. This includes custom development from requirements definition to system integration.
• Mathematical Reasoning DatasetA dataset designed to improve LLM's mathematical reasoning ability by focusing on the 'solution process' rather than just the 'final answer'.

Key capabilities

• High-quality data collection, creation, annotation, and evaluation
• Scalable, reliable, and human-in-the-loop data solutions
• Support for LLM, VLM, robotics, and advanced AI applications
• Diverse data formats: Physical AI, 3D (LiDAR), Text, Audio, Video, Image
• Accuracy improvement for various models and benchmarks
• AI Data Platform (SaaS) with cloud workers for annotation
• AI data generation and management platform with expert knowledge
• AI data evaluation and quality assurance with multi-layer review
• AI Solutions for custom development, from data collection to model development and system construction
• Downloadable, high-quality pre-made datasets
• Multi-modal AI dataset creation (Image-Text Alignment, Audio-Text Pairing, Video-Audio-Text Fusion)
• Specialized annotation and processing techniques for various data formats
• Enterprise-grade AI data solutions tailored to customer needs
• Support for object detection, segmentation, keypoint detection in images
• Support for object tracking, behavior recognition, scene classification, frame-level annotation in videos
• Support for speech recognition, speaker recognition, sound event detection, sentiment analysis in audio
• Support for natural language processing, text classification, named entity recognition, instruction data creation in text
• 20,000 global cloud workers for large-scale data collection
• Proprietary quality control with patented automatic quality check algorithms and mutual verification by multiple cloud workers
• Intuitive UI/UX for project management and progress tracking
• AI-assisted semi-automatic annotation for efficiency and cost reduction
• Flexible workflow settings and data export in major formats (COCO, YOLO, Pascal VOC)
• Enterprise-grade security with data encryption, access control, and audit logs
• Expert network for specialized data creation (medical, finance, manufacturing)
• Three-layer quality check system for expert-level data (initial quality setting, multi-layer review, continuous improvement)
• One-stop AI development from requirements definition to system integration
• NVIDIA NeMo for LLM accuracy improvement, SLM/VLM development
• Custom AI solutions for specific challenges (prediction, recommendation, anomaly detection)
• Secure distribution of datasets with technical support and continuous updates

Use cases

• LLM/SFT/RLHF development
• Agent development
• RAG solutions
• AI model evaluation
• Physical AI development (autonomous driving, robotics)
• Object detection
• Speech recognition
• Multi-modal AI dataset creation (Vision-Language Models)
• Image recognition and analysis
• Video analysis and understanding
• Audio recognition and generation
• 3D spatial recognition and ranging (LiDAR)
• Natural language processing
• High-precision object detection and recognition systems
• High-precision speech recognition systems
• Maximizing LLM performance with precise instruction and evaluation data
• Building autonomous AI agents
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for enterprise knowledge bases
• AI model performance measurement and evaluation
• Satellite data for real estate search (WHERE)
• AI for broadcast station operations and video analysis
• Efficient document management with AI (PATPOST)
• Object detection for agricultural robots (pepper harvesting)
• Efficient annotation for 360-degree cameras
• Teacher data for generative AI development
• Improving speech recognition accuracy for cloud IP phones (MiiTel)
• AI for factory visualization and quality inspection
• Medical image diagnosis AI (CT/MRI reading)
• Financial document analysis AI (contract/approval document data extraction)
• Manufacturing quality inspection AI (product defect detection)
• Japanese LLM development (instruction data construction)
• AI-OCR accuracy verification for financial documents
• AI answer evaluation in medical/pharmaceutical fields
• Data digitization of confidential internal documents for RAG
• 3D object detection and localization
• Point cloud segmentation
• 3D mapping and environment modeling
• 3D object tracking
• Infrastructure inspection using 3D scan data
• Agricultural 3D data for crop growth measurement and yield prediction
• Named Entity Recognition (NER)
• Text Classification
• Sentiment Analysis
• Question Answering system data creation
• Relation Extraction
• LLM Instruction Data creation
• Machine translation (parallel corpus)

AI approach

APTO is an AI data company that provides high-quality data collection, creation, annotation, and evaluation services to support the development of high-performance AI models. They offer platforms for self-service annotation, expert-driven data creation, and pre-made datasets. They also provide AI solution development services, including LLM/SLM, RAG, AI-OCR, image recognition, and speech recognition AI development. They focus on creating diverse datasets for various AI applications, including LLM, VLM, and robotics, and emphasize human-in-the-loop data solutions and rigorous quality control.

Tech named: LLM, VLM, robotics, NVIDIA NeMo, GPT-5, Claude Fable 5, Gemini 3 Pro, Llama 4, Mixtral 8x22B, Qwen 2.5/3.5, BERT, RoBERTa, T5, FLAN-T5, DeBERTa, ELECTRA, PointPillars, VoxelNet, PointRCNN, PV-RCNN, CenterPoint, PointNet, PointNet++, RangeNet++, SalsaNext, Cylinder3D, LOAM, LeGO-LOAM, LIO-SAM, KISS-ICP

Industries served

• Manufacturing
• Medical
• Retail
• Finance
• Legal
• Customer Support
• Telecommunications
• Entertainment
• Media
• Surveillance
• Sports
• Automotive
• Robotics
• Infrastructure
• Food
• IT
• Internet
• Insurance
• Education
• Culture
• Construction
• Real Estate
• Leisure
• Broadcasting
• Agriculture
• Call Centers

What it says sets it apart

• Japan-based AI data company with focus on high-quality data
• Proprietary mathematical reasoning, safety, and medical datasets for LLMs
• AI Data Platform (harBest) with 20,000 global cloud workers and patented quality control
• harBest Expert leverages a network of specialists for highly specialized data creation (e.g., medical, finance)
• Comprehensive AI Solutions for custom development, from data collection to model deployment
• One-stop service for model development and accuracy improvement, including NVIDIA NeMo for LLM fine-tuning
• Flexible service offerings from SaaS platforms to custom development and ready-made datasets
• Strong focus on Physical AI, aiming to make Japan a leader in this field
• Three-layer quality check system for expert-level data with 99.5% annotation accuracy
• Ability to handle confidential data with flexible data formats and delivery methods
• Experienced engineering team with diverse specializations in ML, R&D, and software development
• Multilingual support for data annotation and business development (Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean, Indonesian)
• Continuous improvement of information security management system with regular audits and education