Prolific

Prolific is a highly disruptive, Series A data research technology company fundamentally designed to build the largest and highest-quality pool of human-derived data in the world. Founded in 2014 by Phelim Bradley at Oxford University and headquartered in London, United Kingdom, the platform completely revolutionizes how organizations conduct online experiments, surveys, and AI training. Under the hood, Prolific seamlessly connects over 35,000 data collectors with an elite, actively vetted network of over 200,000 verified human participants across 80+ languages—launching a new study every two minutes. Their primary target audience spans cutting-edge AI developers needing precise RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) and model evaluation data, Ivy League academic researchers, and enterprise UX teams who desperately need to bypass the fraud, bots, and noise of traditional panel providers. What sets Prolific apart in the fiercely competitive market research landscape is its uncompromising commitment to data integrity and ethical compensation; leveraging an advanced, API-first infrastructure and proprietary anti-bot protocols to deliver high-fidelity insights and specialized domain expertise in hours, not weeks.