Today’s voice. Tomorrow’s medicine.

Crowd-sourcing medical data for research and development. AI ready labelled inputs in a secure, ethical and powerful way.

Discover Lugo

Our Vision

What we believe in...

To develop solid data models and AI solutions, data is the key.
Validated, labelled and tailored data is hard to obtain and this slows down research and development.

Lugo wants to help researchers and biotech firms obtain the data the need quickly and reliably, while also empowering its users and valuing their privacy.

Our mission is to ethically crowd-source data for our partners from anyone around the world, while anonymising, encrypting, labelling, customizing and rewarding each entry

Lugo as a user

Browse

You browse our initiatives

Browse among initiatives we propose
and choose a cause you want to support from skin cancer to Covid research.

Choose

You choose an initiative

Found what touches you, something you want to contribute to or that you find interesting? Read through to understand what is all about.

Take part

You provide insightful data

Take a selfie, shoot a brief video, answer to a questionnaire or cough in your microphone for a few seconds and provide critical data.

Get rewards

You are paid for your contributions

We will collect, anonymise and secure the data, rewarding you for your contribution. You have helped save lives while we valued your data.

The problem

Nowadays, most research and development in biotech (both academia and corporate), relies on machine learning and neural networks models. These models mostly depend on how accurate the data they are provided with is. Finding such data can be incredibly hard, take a long time and be very expensive. Moreover, despite there being loads of data available out there, this is nearly often unsuitable, too generic and not labelled.

80% of AI projects time is spent on data collection and preparation; on average companies spend £180,000 every 3 years on data collection.

This encompasses labour, training and the associated security and storage costs - slowing the rate of innovation.

Our solution

Clients oriented. Lugo offers a dedicated space for clients to submit new initiatives detailing the kind of data they wish to collect, the format and the validation this should be subject to. Clients will then be able to monitor data inflow, see data samples and ultimately collect large datasets tailored to their specific needs.
Empowers the user. Way too many firms out there get a hold of user data through indirect terms and conditions, collecting and redistributing large sets of generic data. At Lugo, we empower the user: each data entry is rewarded in cash, encrypted and stored anonymously, no-one, not even Lugo, can link the collected data to the users that provided it.
Sets a standard. There is MP4 for audio, JPG for images and... LUGO for AI. We are working on a new global standard for machine learning data. While at the moment AI is not mass produced, this market will unavoidably boom in the next ten years. Our clients will be able to access their data via common tool kits and formats and take advantage of our own standards.