Fifty hours. Two weeks. At cost.
The way this market starts is a paid pilot at production standard, and there is no reason to make you ask for it. Here is the size, the lead time, how the price is built and what we can actually deliver this week — before an NDA, before a call.
The pilot
- Volume
- Fifty delivered hours — a hundred where the schema needs the spread across environments or speakers.
- Lead time
- Two weeks from spec sign-off to delivery. Not two weeks from first contact; two weeks from the point the brief is agreed.
- Price
- Quoted per delivered hour against your schema, at cost for a first pilot. We are buying the brief, not the margin.
- Standard
- Production-equivalent throughout — the same operators, settings, manifest and instruments as a full programme. A pilot run to a softer standard tells you nothing about the programme it is meant to predict.
- Deliverable
- Manifest, annotations, rights pack, data card, proxies for review and masters on acceptance.
- What we need from you
- An action schema or an environment list, a language set, and the acceptance criteria you intend to judge it against. If you have none, ours is on the delivery page and you can mark it up.
- If it fails
- You keep the material and the manifest and owe nothing further. We would rather lose fifty hours than a programme.
How the price is built
- Unit
- Priced per delivered hour against your schema and your acceptance criteria. Not per clip, not per contributor, not per seat.
- Position
- Below equivalent US or EU managed programmes. Operating from Lagos and Douala is a structural cost advantage and we pass it through rather than bank it.
- What moves the number
- Annotation depth first, then rig count, then language rarity, then exclusivity. Volume moves it least — per-asset clearance work does not fall away with scale, and we will not price as though it does.
- What is included
- Clearance, contributor payment, capture, ingest, annotation, manifest and delivery. There is no separate rights or licensing fee added at signature.
- What is quoted separately
- Exclusivity, buyer-specified rigs and sensors, transcription beyond the standard metadata layer, and any retention or residency requirement outside our default region.
We publish the model rather than a rate card because the number is meaningless without your schema — annotation depth moves it further than volume does. Ask in the first meeting and you will get a figure in the second, not a discovery process.
What we can deliver, stated the only way worth stating it
Capacity as at September 2026| Line | Now, without hiring | On a signed brief |
|---|---|---|
| Egocentric capture | 2 operators · 12 delivered hours per week | 8 operators · 60 hours per week, six weeks from a signed brief |
| Conversational audio | 2 operators · 15 delivered hours per week | 6 operators · 45 hours per week, four weeks from a signed brief |
| Instrumented capture | Rig-limited; collected to a funded brief only | 3–4 simultaneous rigs on commissioned volume, procurement inside eight weeks |
| Cleared archive | Rights audit throughput, not capture throughput | Tranche by tranche, gated on chain of title rather than on our capacity |
Capacity is stated against operators trained and instruments signed, never against a spreadsheet of what could be hired. The number on the left is what we can deliver this week without hiring anyone.
The number on the right is a ramp, and it is contingent on a signed brief rather than on optimism — operators are recruited and calibrated against committed volume, because training an operator for demand that does not arrive is how a supplier starts cutting corners on clearance.
If your programme needs a thousand hours in a quarter, say so in the first meeting. We will either show you the ramp that reaches it or tell you it does not, and the second answer is worth more to you than the first.
Inspect it before you sign anything
Two things are public and stay public: the manifest schema every delivery ships against, and one complete annotation file — a roadside bearing replacement where the extraction fails twice before the mechanic applies heat, which is the layer we argue is actually scarce. Media frames and signed instruments follow an NDA, because the people in them agreed to be filmed for training, not for a website.
If you are an aggregator or a marketplace
You are not buying delivered hours for a training run — you are deciding whether to open an account with a new regional supplier and resell what comes out of it. Different questions, answered here rather than across three calls. The short version: everything we ship is warranted per asset and sublicensable onward, which is the only property that makes regional supply resellable at all.
- Minimum tranche
- We do not set one, and we would rather open with twenty cleared hours than two hundred unwarranted ones. Tell us your floor for taking on a new source and we will clear to it — the constraint on our side is rights-audit throughput, never the size of the pool.
- What arrives with a tranche
- Media in one format and one folder structure, a manifest row per asset, scanned instruments named to asset ID, a payment reference per rights holder, and a data card at the root. Nothing arrives as a drive of mixed formats for you to normalise.
- Rights documentation
- Per asset, never in aggregate. Every row resolves to a signed instrument naming AI and machine-learning training — pre-train, fine-tune, validate, benchmark, evaluate, generative models included — and granting the right to sublicense onward through multiple tiers. That last clause is the one that matters to a reseller: what you take from us passes to your buyer without anyone going back to a station manager in Douala.
- Warranty position
- Texa warrants the chain and indemnifies against rights-chain claims. You are not asked to re-warrant material on trust, and you are not asked to carry a liability we would not carry ourselves.
- What we decline
- Any tranche whose chain of title cannot be reconstructed per asset. Third-party music, licensed insert footage and unreleased performers come out before a tranche is offered rather than after you have found them.
- Exclusivity
- Available by category, territory and term, and priced as a premium. If your model requires exclusive supply, say so early — it changes what we can offer a rights holder and therefore what we can sign.
- Rate
- Quoted per delivered hour by data type, against your spec. Operating from Lagos and Douala is a structural cost advantage and we pass it through. Give us an indicative range by type and we will tell you in the same conversation which lines clear inside it.
- What we need from you
- Your minimum viable volume, your accepted technical specification, your rights-documentation standard for onboarding a new regional supplier, and an indicative rate range by data type. Four answers and we can model whether a line is worth standing up before either of us commits capital.