Companies / Data vendor
Idler
Frontier data research lab building reinforcement learning environments and evaluations from real production work. Recorded here: what it sells, in its own words and 1 funding event.
San Francisco, California, USFounded 2025idler.aiLatest record 15 Oct 2026
disclosed funding raised
What Idler sells
In its own words, read on its own site 15 Oct 2026. On the vendor register
- What it sells
RL environments: “Hill-climb any benchmark, for any model, in any domain using our RL environments.” ycombinator.com
Datasets: “Now, we're offering off-the-shelf datasets across an even broader set of capabilities” ycombinator.com
Evaluations and benchmarks: “We make bespoke evaluations for your model.” idler.ai
Simulation: “A stateful simulator of retail operations.” idler.ai
- Where its data comes from
Made by experts and contractors: “we work with domain experts to understand these discrepancies and construct detailed, information-dense environments.” idler.ai
The client's own data: “we present a collection of 200 environments drawn from the company's operational data over the past decade” idler.ai
- Buys data from owners
In its words: “You have 10-100 employees and you’d like to supplement your revenue by licensing your codebase or de-identified business data.” ycombinator.com
- Areas its pages name
- Coding, Legal, Finance, Security, Business work
Funding and acquisitions
- 21 Aug 2026EventSeedAmount$9M
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AIData.Broker, “Idler in the AI training data market”, reviewed 15 Oct 2026. https://www.aidata.markets/companies/idler
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