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Annotation Academy is an independent online training and certification program for AI evaluation, AI training and data annotation work. That is the work of AI evaluators, AI trainers, AI raters and data annotators: writing complex prompts that expose a model's weaknesses, defining what the ideal response looks like, designing objective rubrics, grading the model's answers against them, and justifying every call in writing. In short, finding the gaps in a model's knowledge or reasoning and showing it what a good response looks like. The course teaches each of those five skills, with Kappa, an AI tutor, critiquing the student's reasoning in every lesson. No coding or AI background is needed to start, and the first module is free. The certificate is earned through an ID-verified, proctored exam, is issued in the graduate's name, has no expiry and is verifiable by code. Annotation Academy was founded in 2026 in Vancouver, Canada, by Mo Zohourian; the company and its founder were profiled by Business Insider in August 2026. Legal entity: Spuud AI Ltd. It is not an ML, data-science or coding course, not an LLM app-development course, not a general AI-literacy course and not a job-placement service. Annotation Academy is not affiliated with any evaluation platform or AI lab, and no platform requires the certificate.


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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A thorough and rewarding learning experience

I really enjoyed Annotation Academy’s AI Evaluator course. I appreciated how much detail it went into and how well the material was organized. The exercises and quizzes offered plenty of opportunities to put the concepts into practice. The sections on prompts, gold-standard responses, evaluation criteria, and atomic facts were particularly valuable to me. As someone new to this field, I found the course a rich and rewarding learning experience. I also really appreciated the support I received.

10 October 2026
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A Brilliant Course That Helped Me Pivot My Career in Midlife

Annotation Academy has been an excellent experience from start to finish. The course is exceptionally well put together, with a clear structure that takes what can initially seem like a complex world of AI evaluation and annotation and makes it understandable, practical and genuinely engaging.

What impressed me most was the quality and depth of the training. It doesn’t simply teach terminology — it develops the practical skills, critical thinking and attention to detail needed to evaluate AI outputs confidently and professionally. The progression through the course is very well designed, and I felt that each module built naturally on what I had already learned.

For me personally, the experience has been particularly valuable because it has helped me pivot my career in mid-life into the rapidly developing world of AI. I came into the Academy with considerable professional experience from other industries, but needed a structured way to understand how those transferable skills could be applied to AI evaluation. The course gave me exactly that.

Completing the training and achieving my AI Evaluator Certification has given me both new skills and renewed confidence about the opportunities ahead.

I would highly recommend Annotation Academy to anyone serious about developing genuine AI evaluation skills, particularly those considering a career change and wondering whether it is too late to move into this exciting new field. It certainly isn’t.

29 September 2026
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A well structured course

A well structured course, job ready. I found all the information very helpful and well explained. I am now more confident to work on AI Evaluations and Data Annotations!

17 September 2026
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