Why Harbor

The next generation of AI must understand the real world. Internet video is not a substitute for consented, first-person operations data. Models that act—robots, vehicles, wearables, agents in physical space—need hours of how work actually happens, with identity still attached.

Harbor’s public line: people record real work; Harbor turns it into training data with identity and consent on every hour. Capture. Review. Deliver. That is the company story on harborml.com and /why-harbor. Documentation here is the same story written so you can run a programme or join one.

What “contextual intelligence” means here

Not a slogan for “smarter chatbot.” It means the model has the surrounding context of a real environment: hands, tools, lighting, interruption, the thing that happens before and after the labelled event. Harbor’s job is to capture that context without stripping provenance.