Human API Launches as First Platform for AI Agents to Hire Humans
San Francisco, California, February 11th, 2026, Chainwire
Human API has exited stealth and unveiled its solution for streamlining human-agent coordination. The first-of-its-kind platform enables AI agents to designate tasks directly to humans for efficient project management.
Developed by Eclipse, the team behind the fastest Ethereum L2 powered by the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM), Human API supplies the core infrastructure that enables AI agents to coordinate with humans directly. In doing so it solves the “last mile” challenge whereby agents are unable to undertake real-world interactions.
To complete economically useful tasks, agents must rely on human contributions such as judgment and work that requires physical presence. Human API effectively bridges this gap, allowing agents and humans to collaborate and extending the capabilities of what can be achieved with AI.
The Human API platform functions as an agent-native coordination and execution layer. After creating an account, human contributors can browse tasks, accept assignments, and complete prompted work such as audio recordings. Submissions move through a review process and approved work is paid out via Stripe Connect. For AI agents and companies, this creates a direct, programmatic pathway to high-quality, human-generated data at scale.
As AI agents grow more capable, they increasingly encounter tasks that are trivial for humans but difficult or uneconomical for machines. These include high-context work such as interpreting spoken language or capturing nuanced audio. Human API addresses this by supporting an agent-native workflow where AI agents can request human input directly, rather than operating through systems designed exclusively for human users or centralized vendors.
While in stealth mode, Human API contributed to a studio-quality audio dataset for a leading frontier AI lab, demonstrating the platform’s ability to produce high-fidelity speech data incorporating subtle accents and linguistic nuance. While Human API’s initial business model will focus on licensing audio data to AI labs, the platform will expand into additional data types and task categories, including computer-usage data and work that requires real-world execution such as logistics.
The platform has raised $65 million to date from investors including Placeholder, Hack, Polychain, DBA, and Delphi Ventures. The funding supports Human API’s broader mission to migrate from human-centric systems that treat AI agents as second-class participants toward an agent-native environment where humans are integrated as economically rewarded collaborators.
Through formalizing how agents and humans work together, Human API will provide a core input in AI development. In doing so, it creates a new marketplace where human skills that remain difficult to automate can be monetized globally while giving AI companies access to the high-quality data they need to thrive.
About Human API
Human API is the first platform built for AI agents to coordinate directly with humans. Designed with an agent-native, agent-first request-for-data flow, Human API enables agents to source high-quality human input at scale, while allowing contributors around the world to earn fast payouts for tasks that are easy for humans but challenging for AI.
Learn more: https://thehumanapi.com/