Delivery standard
99%+ inter-annotator agreement on text classification tasks
What this service is designed to deliver when deployed inside your workflow.
AI Data & Knowledge Operations
NLP & Text Labeling Outsourcing for UK Companies.
Native English annotators labeling text for NER, sentiment, intent, and document classification. Commonwealth-educated teams in Nairobi delivering 99%+ consistency at £7,200 per annotator per year.
9:00–18:00 UK time (GMT+3)
|EOR or Managed Services
|7–14 days from signed agreement
Overview
What is NLP & Text Labeling?
NLP and text labeling outsourcing involves deploying trained linguists and annotators to classify, tag, and structure text data for natural language processing model training. Treba provides dedicated text labeling teams in Nairobi who handle named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, intent classification, topic categorisation, and coreference resolution inside your annotation platform via VDI.
Typical client
UK NLP teams building chatbots and virtual assistants, SaaS companies training text classifiers, legal tech firms automating document review, and healthcare AI companies processing clinical notes
At a glance
How Treba delivers.
The operating facts behind nlp & text labeling: delivery standard, team shape, and compliance model.
Typical team size
3–30 text annotators per project, scaled to corpus size
Scaled to project load and pipeline.
Compliance model
UK GDPR aligned — IDTA framework
Legal and data-transfer structure for the engagement.
UK loaded cost
£40,864/yr
Data Annotator
The challenge
Why UK companies struggle with nlp & text labeling.
Text labeling for NLP requires something crowdsourced annotation platforms cannot guarantee: native-level English comprehension. Sarcasm, idiom, implied meaning, and domain jargon all require annotators who think in English, not translate into it. UK-based annotators deliver comprehension but cost £28,000+ per year for what is fundamentally repetitive classification work. Offshore alternatives in non-English-speaking markets produce labels that look correct on the surface but introduce systematic comprehension errors that degrade model performance over thousands of examples.
Outcomes
What you'll achieve.
See the shift from UK in-house benchmarks to Treba delivery outcomes.
Outcome
Comprehension Accuracy
UK in-house
98%+ (native English)
With Treba
98%+ (Commonwealth English)
Outcome
Cost Per Annotator
UK in-house
£40,864/yr loaded
With Treba
£7,200/yr loaded
Outcome
Label Consistency (IAA)
UK in-house
75–85% (crowdsourced)
With Treba
99%+ (dedicated team)
Capabilities
What we deliver.
Named Entity Recognition (NER)
“Entities tagged with domain precision, not guesswork.”
Sentiment & Intent Classification
“Nuanced labeling that captures what customers actually mean.”
Document Classification & Taxonomy
“Structured categorisation at document and paragraph level.”
Meet Your Next Hire
“I lead a team labeling customer support tickets for a UK fintech. English is my first language — I was educated in the Kenyan Commonwealth system, which follows the British curriculum. When a customer writes 'that is just brilliant, is not it' sarcastically, my team labels it negative. Offshore teams without native comprehension label it positive.”
FN
Faith N.
Senior Text Annotator
Education
BA Linguistics, University of Nairobi
Certification
Prodigy Annotation Platform Certified, Natural Language Processing Specialisation (DeepLearning.AI)
Experience
3–7 years in nlp & text labeling roles
Economics
UK loaded cost vs Treba.
Fully loaded comparison — Treba cost includes salary, Nairobi office, equipment, IT infrastructure, and full compliance. No hidden fees.
Save 78%
Remote from Nairobi
Audio Transcriptionist
Pre-vetted · Interview in 48hrs · Start in 7 days
UK Cost
£38,592
Treba Cost
£8,400/yr
You Save
£30,192/yr
How it works
How we deliver nlp & text labeling.
01
Discovery Call
Scope, volume, tools, compliance requirements. 1–2 days.
02
Talent Selection
Pre-vetted candidates matched to your brief. 3–5 days.
03
Tech & Compliance Setup
VDI/VPN access, NDA execution, DPA signing. 2–3 days.
04
Nest Training
2-week onboarding inside your systems with QA checkpoints.
05
Go Live
Full production. Weekly check-ins for first 30 days.
Engagement models
Two ways to work
with Treba.
Choose the model that fits your team. Switch anytime.
EOR (Employer of Record)
Managed Services
£17kAvg. annual
saving
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Your Treba team
James M.
KYC Analyst
Amina K.
Med. Transcriber
David O.
QA Tester
Total / yr£28,400
Compliance built in. Not bolted on.
UK GDPR + IDTA
International Data Transfer Agreement for lawful UK–Kenya data flows. Executed by legal counsel. Annual review.
Kenya DPA 2019
Modelled on EU GDPR. Regulated by ODPC. Enforceable. Equivalent protection.
ISO 27001-Aligned
Biometric access. Clean desk policy. CCTV. Network segmentation. No shortcuts.
Cyber Essentials
UK government-backed baseline cybersecurity certification. Audited annually. Public record.
Industries
Industries using this service.
NLP & Text Labeling outsourcing for regulated UK industries.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
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Save £33,664 per year with a dedicated nlp & text labeling team in Nairobi. Pre-vetted professionals ready in 7–14 days. UK GDPR compliant.