AfterQuery / LinkedIn · Jul 2026
AfterQuery introduced Atrium, a program offering companies payment for eligible private codebases to support data creation.
Research lab investigating the boundaries of AI capabilities.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 2, 2026
AfterQuery is a San Francisco applied research lab and AI-data company that captures expert reasoning, workflows, and institutional knowledge to create training data, evaluations, and reinforcement-learning environments for frontier AI labs and enterprises. It reports working with nearly 100,000 verified professionals and every leading AI lab, though those customer claims are company-reported.
Primary product
Expert-curated AI data infrastructure: supervised fine-tuning datasets, RL/RLHF data and rubrics, tool-calling and computer-use environments, custom evaluations, benchmarks, and enterprise AI data/agent implementations.
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
100-150
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development / Artificial Intelligence
Sub-industry
AI training data, expert data, model evaluation, reinforcement-learning environments, and enterprise AI implementation
Offices
Business model
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
Nancy Fairbank
Head of Operations
Maggie Chao
Head of Business Operations and People
Jake Seaton
Head of Revenue
Amish Sethi
Research Lead
Michelle Choe
Content Strategy Lead
Winnie Wang
Founding Growth
Founders
Danny Tang
Co-Founder (reported by third-party company databases)
The company presents itself as research-driven, software-first, highly execution-oriented, and talent-dense, with an emphasis on owning data-creation tooling in-house rather than outsourcing. Careers materials target people from finance, consulting, quant trading, software engineering, research, and leading technology companies.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public YC job postings show approximately $90,000-$400,000 salary ranges for some roles and $7,000-$10,000 monthly for a LatAm infrastructure role. One LatAm posting states that US citizenship/visa is not required. No general company-wide compensation or US visa-sponsorship policy was found.
Benefits
Pricing
Not publicly listed; appears to be negotiated enterprise pricing for off-the-shelf and custom datasets, evaluations, consulting, and deployments. Expert contributors are paid per project or task.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$100M-$150M annualized revenue run rate; the $100M+ figure is company-reported and not audited
Estimated monthly visits
977.5K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
AfterQuery / LinkedIn · Jul 2026
AfterQuery introduced Atrium, a program offering companies payment for eligible private codebases to support data creation.
AfterQuery blog · Jun 2026
Significant company commentary on enterprise AI deployment trends and how AfterQuery’s data/context approach fits the evolving market.
AfterQuery · Apr 2026
AfterQuery detailed Raine Search, a semantic search and institutional-knowledge system built from Raine’s precedent materials, taxonomies, and workflows using AfterQuery tooling.
Business Wire · Apr 2026
AfterQuery announced a $30M Series A led by Altos Ventures at a $300M valuation, with participation from The Raine Group, Y Combinator, and BoxGroup; the company said it had exceeded a $100M annual revenue run rate.
AfterQuery · Apr 2026
The company described its expert-data strategy, nearly 100,000 verified professionals, software-first data creation, and support from Altos, Raine, YC, BoxGroup, Latitude Capital, and prominent AI-sector angels.