Tagger (@TaggerAI): Scale AI lost $350M+ in customer commitments in 10 months.
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Scale AI lost $350M+ in customer commitments in 10 months. Not because the data was bad. Because one vendor got bought. Meta paid $14.3B for 49% of Scale AI and moved its CEO in-house. Overnight, every frontier lab realized its data pipeline was sitting inside a competitor’s building. Google, OpenAI, xAI, Microsoft — all pulled back. It wasn’t about price or quality. Neutrality can’t survive a 49% stake. The labs rushed to Labelbox and Handshake. Same trap, new logo, waiting for the next acquisition. Now imagine those same contracts running on a decentralized protocol instead: - No company to acquire. - No CEO to poach. - No boardroom to compromise. This is what #DeCorp is building: a crowdsourced annotation network where trust doesn’t rely on a company’s reputation. Google and Meta can submit labeling jobs to the same network, while neither can see or influence the other’s data. Annotators get paid directly by smart contract — no 95% middleman cut. Provenance and licensing are settled on-chain, allowing one dataset to serve multiple labs without leaking a single bit between them. The $14.3B acquisition that broke Scale AI? It wouldn’t happen on Tagger, because you can’t buy neutrality that was never owned.