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Surge AI

Human data company for frontier labs, with red teaming campaigns

Human-led engagementsAgents and toolsFrontier model safety

Surge AI supplies human feedback data and an expert workforce to AI labs, and runs red teaming campaigns against frontier models covering jailbreaks, prompt injection and tool abuse. Its enterprise offer is framed as validating models before launch. It has no public red teaming service page.

Best for: Watch only: frontier labs buying human red teamers at scale.

Bootstrapped; reported in talks to raise about $1B (Jul 2025)

  • – Maps to OWASP
  • – Maps to MITRE ATLAS
  • – Maps to the EU AI Act
  • – SOC 2 or ISO 27001
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Facts checked November 9, 2026 against the sources listed below. Surge AI does not pay to appear here.

1 Legal nameSurge AI (Surge Labs Inc.)
2 HeadquartersSan Francisco, CA, USA
3 Founded2020
4 TeamAbout 110 employees (2024, secondary source)
5 What they testFoundation models, Prompt injection and jailbreaks, Agents and tool use
6 FrameworksNot disclosed
7 CertificationsNot disclosed
8 Published pricesNot disclosed
9 Customers and partnersSays Anthropic uses its RLHF platform and that Google, Microsoft and Meta are partners.

Worth knowing before you sign

  • May 2025 proposed class action alleging annotators were misclassified as contractors.
  • No public red teaming service, framework mapping or certifications.
  • Reported Jul 2025 leak of internal safety guidelines and contractor documents.

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Sources

  1. Vendor: homepage
  2. Vendor: enterprise
  3. Vendor: adversarial engineer job post
  4. Bloomberg Law: misclassification suit
  5. Wikipedia: company profile

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