Most companies treat annotation like janitorial work. That's expensive thinking. When you view annotation as just a cost to minimize, you build cheap pipelines that produce mediocre data. Then you wonder why your models underperform and require constant retraining. The "savings" evaporate in rework and opportunity cost. 💸 I've seen the alternative. When you design annotation as a strategic capability, everything changes. Your annotators become domain experts who encode busin