quality_assurance · energy · workflow
Sharper Shape builds streamlined annotation pipeline with Labelbox to detect utility defects
Sharper Shape relied on heavily manual workflows and open-source labeling tools that lacked the required configuration, customer support, and infrastructure management capabilities needed to meet their SLAs and scale training data production.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Raw data ingested via API
Sharper Shape connects their raw data into Labelbox via a simple API.
Tools used
Labelbox
Outcome
Sharper Shape cut labeling costs by as much as 50%, sped up model training by over 10X, and can now concentrate on model building and deployment without additional engineering effort.
What failed first
Open-source labeling tools did not provide sufficient configuration or customer support for Sharper Shape's annotation needs, and manual experiment tracking added overhead.
Results
Time savedanother huge reduction in time and costs
Volumeover 10X
Cost replaced50%
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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