Karama Data
Arabic AI Data Annotation

Your Arabic AI is only as good as the humans who train it.

91% accuracy, benchmarked against published research. US-incorporated. No shortcuts.

AI & Cybersecurity
Veterans
Founded by
5+
Arabic Dialect Variants
Multi-layer
QA Review Process
Arabic Only
No Content Moderation
Kappa 0.62
RLHF Agreement Score
The Opportunity

Why Arabic? Why Now?

Arabic is one of the most spoken languages on earth — and one of the most underserved in AI. That gap is why enterprise buyers are reaching out, and why the quality of annotation data has never mattered more.

400M+
Arabic speakers worldwide

Arabic is the fifth most spoken language in the world, spanning 22 countries across the Middle East and North Africa — yet AI systems routinely fail to understand the people who speak it.

<1%
of NLP research covers Arabic

Despite hundreds of millions of speakers, Arabic receives a fraction of the research attention that English does. The training data infrastructure is just getting started — and the companies who invest now will have a significant head start.

The Translation Shortcut

Most "Arabic" AI training data is machine-translated English. It misses cultural context, dialect nuance, and the way Arabic is actually spoken day to day.

The MSA Assumption

Models trained on Modern Standard Arabic sound robotic to real users who speak Levantine, Khaleeji, Egyptian, or Maghrebi every day. Dialect matters.

Pilot Results

Quality We Can Prove

In our first structured pilot, two Palestinian annotators in Gaza completed 3,031 annotation tasks across three task types — every result benchmarked against published international standards.

3,031
Tasks completed
100% completion rate
91.4%
Top accuracy
Preference Ranking
0.623
RLHF Kappa score
↑ vs 0.27–0.39 (OpenAI/NVIDIA)
470/hr
Team throughput
2-labeler pilot team

Preference Ranking

Above Benchmark
667 items · RLHF / Model Alignment
Avg accuracy 88.6%
Benchmark: 83–87% (major AI labs)
Cohen's Kappa 0.623
Benchmark: 0.27–0.39 (OpenAI / NVIDIA)
Best labeler: 91.4% · No Arabic RLHF benchmark exists — first-of-kind data

Dialect Identification

On Par
960 items · MSA, Levantine, Gulf, Egyptian, Iraqi, Maghrebi
Avg accuracy 71.2%
Benchmark: 65–80% (NADI 2024)
Cohen's Kappa 0.572
Benchmark: 0.59 (NADI 2024, Palestinian Arabic)
Best labeler: 77% · Compared against the largest Arabic dialect competition globally

Sentiment Tagging

Near Target
999 items · Arabic social media text
Avg accuracy 62.5%
Benchmark: 60–75% (AraSenTi-Tweet)
Cohen's Kappa 0.532
Target: 0.55–0.70 (Arabic NLP)
Best labeler: 73.2% · Guideline improvement identified & incorporated into SOP
Benchmarked against published research: NADI 2024 (ACL/WANLP) · AraSenTi-Tweet · ASAD Corpus · MultiPref 2024 · HelpSteer2 2024. On Preference Ranking — the highest-value task for AI companies — our Kappa of 0.623 significantly outperforms figures published by OpenAI and NVIDIA.
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What We Do

Arabic Dialect Annotation Services

We specialize exclusively in Arabic language data annotation — covering major dialect families — for organizations building the next generation of Arabic-language AI systems.

NLP Annotation

Native dialect labels that improve your model's real-world accuracy.

Named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, intent classification, and text categorization across Levantine, Gulf, Egyptian, and Maghrebi dialects.

ASR Data Annotation

Speech models that actually understand how Arabic is spoken, not just written.

Speech transcription, phonetic labeling, speaker diarization, and audio quality validation for Arabic automatic speech recognition training pipelines.

RLHF & Preference Ranking

Key Capability

Human feedback data that makes your Arabic LLM safer, more helpful, and culturally aligned.

Response ranking, preference pair collection, and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) data — delivered by native Arabic speakers who understand dialect nuance and cultural context.

Conversational AI

Chatbot training data that feels natural to real Arabic speakers, not translated English.

Dialogue annotation, response ranking, and conversation flow labeling for Arabic-language chatbots and virtual assistants.

Quality Assurance

Documented QA reports with every delivery — no black-box quality claims.

Multi-layer review with inter-annotator agreement measurement, senior reviewer sign-off, and structured QA reporting delivered with every project.

Enterprise Compliance

A vendor your procurement team can approve on the first pass.

US-incorporated, domestically owned. No content moderation work. Structured data handling with privacy-first practices that meet enterprise procurement requirements.

We price for quality, not volume. Engagements are scoped based on dialect requirements, QA depth, and throughput needs — not race-to-the-bottom per-task rates. Contact us to discuss your project.

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About Us

Built for Enterprise Trust

Karama Data is a US-incorporated LLC with domestic ownership and a leadership team with deep expertise in AI, enterprise technology, and regional operations.

Our Structure

We are a US LLC with US-based board leadership and domestic ownership — a structure that meets enterprise compliance requirements and instills client confidence. Our operational presence is in the region, giving us authentic access to the linguistic talent our clients need.

GCV Partnership

We operate in partnership with Gaza Children Village (GCV), providing operational infrastructure and community ties that allow us to build and retain a stable, highly-qualified annotator workforce.

Leadership

LM
Laura Mather
Chief Executive Officer

Silicon Valley Founder and CEO with AI and Cybersecurity expertise

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Mike Eynon
Chief Technology Officer

Silicon Valley Founder and CTO

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Nareman Dayya
Palestine Operations Advisor

In-region operations advisor ensuring on-the-ground operational credibility, annotator welfare, and delivery quality

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David Hasan
Advisor

CEO of Gaza Children Village

Our Workforce

The Quality Starts With the Annotators

Our annotator workforce is our primary quality asset. We invest in their training, their ownership stake, and their stability — because high-quality annotations require a workforce that is both skilled and retained.

Native
91% top accuracy
Arabic dialect speakers with deep linguistic and cultural competency in their assigned dialect family
Trained
3,031 annotations delivered
Structured onboarding in annotation methodologies, quality standards, and task-specific guidelines before any production work
Invested
Long-term retention, not gig churn
Our annotators are invested in outcomes — producing measurably lower error rates and better data for our clients

Worker privacy is a priority. We do not publish individual annotator names, photos, or location information.

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Our annotators are not vendors — they are deeply invested in the outcomes. That changes everything about how they approach the work. The precision, the care, the accountability. It shows in every dataset we deliver.

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Nareman Dayya
Palestine Operations Advisor, Karama Data
Contact

Start Your Project

Tell us about your project. We'll follow up to discuss scope, dialect requirements, QA standards, and how we can fit into your annotation pipeline.

US LLC — domestically incorporated and owned

We respond to all inquiries within one business day.

Partners & Affiliations

Supported by Gaza Children Village (GCV)
US-Incorporated LLC