Upwork is the world’s work marketplace that connects businesses with independent talent from across the globe. We serve everyone from one-person startups to large, Fortune 100 enterprises with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential. Our talent community on Upwork encompasses more than 10,000 skills in categories including website & app development, creative & design, customer support, finance & accounting, consulting, and operations.
iMerit, an EXL company, provides expert data solutions for training, fine-tuning, evaluating, and validating AI models. iMerit works with frontier AI labs, AI-native companies, and enterprises to build more accurate, reliable, and domain-aware AI across generative AI, healthcare, autonomous mobility, robotics, and other specialized fields.
Through the iMerit Scholars platform, iMerit connects organizations with a curated global community of more than 30,000 domain experts across 118 countries, including physicians, scientists, engineers, linguists, and other subject matter specialists. These experts support model training, reasoning evaluation, validation, safety, and human feedback workflows, helping AI systems perform reliably in complex, real-world scenarios.
Powered by iMerit’s proprietary Ango Hub platform, customers and experts collaborate on complex multimodal data to create curated and validated training artifacts for high-stakes AI applications. The iMerit Scholars platform brings together expert matching, secure workflows, global payments, and workforce management to support ongoing AI development and evaluation.
In 2026, iMerit was acquired by EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS), a global data and AI company, expanding its ability to support AI development and deployment across regulated industries. For more information, visit https://scholars.net/