Niural AI Launches Global Workforce and Payment Infrastructure for AI Post-Training and Expert Evaluation

Purpose-built infrastructure for onboarding, compliance, IP protection, and global compensation

• Niural AI expands workforce platform by introducing Expert Verifier, a novel category observed by the need for organizations to verify AI-generated work.
• Through this launch, Niural AI gives any organization building AI models the infrastructure necessary to manage this emerging workforce segment.
• Niural AI continues to architect the underlying permissions, compliance, and payment systems required for modern, technology-enabled teams.

NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Niural AI, the AI-native global workforce and payments platform that powers every employment model, today announced the launch of the industry's first dedicated infrastructure for Expert Verifiers, the rapidly growing workforce of credentialed domain experts contributing to AI model training, post-training, and evaluation.

As frontier AI advances beyond traditional annotation into sophisticated post-training and evaluation, demand for specialized human expertise is accelerating. Models increasingly rely on doctors, lawyers, scientists, and other domain experts to evaluate complex reasoning and improve performance. Yet AI companies still manage these highly skilled professionals through fragmented systems built for crowdsourcing and gig work, creating significant worker classification, tax, intellectual property, and operational risks.

Niural AI eliminates this bottleneck by introducing Expert Verifier as a first-class operational role within its global workforce platform, sitting alongside W-2 employees, international hires, and traditional contractors.

Purpose-Built for AI Evaluation Workflows

The launch introduces specialized capabilities built specifically for task-based and project-based AI evaluation:

• High-Trust Global Onboarding & IP Governance: Streamlined onboarding workflows that handle international worker verification, strict non-disclosure agreements, and airtight IP assignment, ensuring proprietary model training data remains protected.
• Dynamic Payment & Settlement Engines: Full support for hourly, task-based, and pay-on-demand settlement across supported global markets, allowing AI teams to compensate specialists immediately upon task verification.
• Automated Cross-Border Tax & Compliance: Built-in tax collection (W-8/W-9) and localized payout rails that eliminate worker misclassification risks for short-term or on-demand expert engagements.
• Unified Enterprise Governance: A single dashboard giving legal, finance, and AI engineering leads visibility into active verifier contracts, total evaluation spend, and global compliance status.

"The AI data industry is undergoing a fundamental shift," said Nami Baral, founder and CEO of Niural AI. "As models get more capable, the work required to improve them is moving beyond traditional annotation into expert reasoning, verification, and increasingly complex post-training environments. The people doing this work are doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers, and specialists whose expertise can determine what a model is capable of doing next.

"But the infrastructure hasn't kept up. You cannot build a global market for high-value human intelligence on payment links and generic contractor workflows. These engagements raise entirely different questions around classification, credentials, intellectual property, taxation, and compensation. At Niural, we're building the financial and workforce infrastructure for this emerging economy, so AI companies can focus on advancing their models rather than figuring out how to engage and pay the humans making that progress possible."

Powering the Next Composition of the Workforce
The launch marks a core milestone in Niural AI's broader product strategy. Informed by research from Niural AI Labs, the platform is architecting the governance layer for a new generation of work, extending beyond traditional employees and contractors to specialized human experts powering AI post-training and autonomous AI agents.

The Expert Verifier capabilities are available immediately to all Niural AI enterprise clients worldwide. To learn more or request platform access, visit niural.com.

About Niural AI
Niural AI is the smartest people platform ever built. In one system, businesses of any size can build and manage their teams globally across any employment model, from payroll to PEO, ASO, EOR, Contractors, and Expert Verifiers.

Built AI-native from the ground up, a company can start with any product and utilize them without migrating employee data. Niural's Agentic AI, EMMA, works across the entire platform enabling true end-to-end execution of workflows, research and analysis. And, for the first time, a company's payroll funds can earn cash back. Funds earned are added into a customer's Niural Wallet, for them to use wherever they're needed most.

Founded in 2022, Niural AI is redefining what the modern financial infrastructure looks like, combining every employment model, AI agents and embedded financial capabilities that put more money back into businesses.

Niural AI Labs is the company's dedicated research division, advancing the development of long-horizon AI agents designed to tackle the world's most complex and consequential work.

Learn more at niural.com.

SOURCE Niural AI