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Meet the Contra Labs ecosystem

We build the eval layer for creative AI, helping AI tools and teams understand quality the way expert creatives do.

Public launch-focused research Creative Arena AI models go head to head on creative output. Real creatives judge the results. The best model wins. Human taste, applied. Learn more
Comparative model evals Benchmarking The industry standard for measuring creative AI. Built on the judgments of 1.5M+ creatives, HCB answers the only question that matters: is this actually good? Learn more
Private lab benchmarks Creative preference Seed datasets (image, video, UI, motion). Corrective SFT data and RLHF preference pairs. Learn more
Long-horizon workflow capture Trajectories Computer-use trajectories from real-world projects with reasoning. Learn more

Building taste into creative AI

Contra Labs brings together private evaluations, public comparisons, and research outputs under one unified human evaluation framework.

Blind comparative reviews

Models are evaluated head-to-head through structured, bias-controlled comparison protocols.

Expert preference modeling

We capture and analyze high-signal human preferences from vetted creative professionals.

Creative scoring systems

Qualitative judgment is translated into structured scoring frameworks aligned with real-world standards.

Multimodal AI evals

Cross-modal evaluation across image, video, audio, and text generation systems.

Built on real-world
creative expertise
Contra Labs taps a vetted network
of practicing creative professionals
Human taste, applied
at scale
The
Network
of Human
Taste
10K+
independent creatives
100+
different creative skills
$250M+
earned by creatives
26x
higher project earnings by creatives on Contra
50+
models evaluated
Work with the industry's top creative minds
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