Human Data & Evaluation Lab

A frontier human data and evaluation lab
making AI better for creativity.

Human creativity keeps evolving.

We make sure it leads.

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We build the eval layer for creative AI, helping AI tools and teams understand quality the way expert creatives do.

Public Evaluations

Creative Arena

AI models go head to head on creative output. Real creatives judge the results. The best model wins. Human taste, applied.

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Research & Insights

Human Creativity Benchmark

The industry standard for measuring creative AI. Built on the judgments of 1.5M+ creatives, HCB answers the only question that matters: is this actually good?

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Private Evaluations

Creative Human Data

Preference datasets built by the people who set creative standards. Top creatives label, rank, and evaluate AI outputs. This is the data that teaches AI what quality looks like.

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Creative AI Agents Beta

Co—Agents

Creative AI Co—Agents that collaboratively amplify the workflows of expert creatives. Private beta.

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Building taste into creative AI

Contra Labs brings together private evaluations, public comparisons, and research outputs under one unified human evaluation framework.

Blind comparative reviews

Models are evaluated head-to-head through structured, bias-controlled comparison protocols.

Expert preference modeling

We capture and analyze high-signal human preferences from vetted creative professionals.

Creative scoring systems

Qualitative judgment is translated into structured scoring frameworks aligned with real-world standards.

Multimodal AI evals

We assess image, video, design, and interactive model outputs where traditional metrics fail to capture taste.

Built on real-world
creative expertise

1.5M+
independent creatives
400+
different creative skills
$250M+
earned by creatives
26x
higher project earnings by creatives on Contra
50+
models evaluated

Work with the industry's top creative minds

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Leading next-gen creative AI research.

Human taste is
the new training data.

Creative AI isn't good enough yet. Human creativity keeps evolving. We're here to make sure it leads.

Execution is free.
Now, judgment is everything.

Move beyond benchmark scores and uncover the qualitative signals that shape user preference.

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