Created by Humans
Data Marketplaces, Sharing & Clean Rooms · AI Training Data & Annotation
2open roles
2backers · Floodgate, Soma Capital
11team · US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +38% in a year
Btruth index, 75 of 100
Overview
Created by Humans is a licensing platform that lets authors and creators license copyrighted works to AI developers for training and reference uses. It is led by a team with a background in digital publishing, technology and data infrastructure, and hires engineers and partnerships staff. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
How Created by Humans hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Created by Humans scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Team
11
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +38% in a year
Hiring now
3
open roles
Backers
2
Floodgate, Soma Capital
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
2025
Team of 11 was 8 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
May 2024
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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$140k – $260k per year · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS
Next.js
React.js
Radix UI
DevOps
AWS
Apply
Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
3
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
33% ▼
Frontend
33% ▼
Sales
33% ▼
Tech stack
The technologies known for Created by Humans, by layer.
Languages
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
Next.js
Radix UI
React.js
Tailwind CSS
Cloud & platforms
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Connections
List
Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors
Soma CapitalVia a fund
876 portfolio companies
Click a company to open it. Dashed lines are likely connections. The second step of the network is part of the Pro plan.
Owner
Same company
Same group
Likely
News
Major authors hope new AI licensing site will help them keep control of their books
In the wake of several lawsuits involving authors suing AI companies for allegedly scraping their literary works to train models, some big-name writers are signing on to a new AI licensing platform.
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Report
A Marketplace to Solve AI Copyright Woes?
Nearly a century ago, Isaac Asimov laid out his Three Laws of Robotics, a set of commandments imagining how artificial beings should interact with humans. The tenets underpin much of modern science fiction, and they tend to knock around in the minds of th
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Report
Backed by David Sacks, Garry Tan and Walter Isaacson, Created by Humans helps people license their creative work to AI models
In 2024, it seems like no week goes by without a media organization, author group or artist suing generative AI companies for using their work to train
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Trip Adler Looks to Build a Bridge Between Creators, AI Companies
The cofounder and former CEO of Scribd envisions his latest venture, Created by Humans, as a plug-and-play platform that will encourage AI companies to legally license content from authors and publishers.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
3 open roles 67% engineering 33% remote $260k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Frontend, Sales