Ellf for Universities

Collaborate on research, experiments, development, data collection and annotation across your institution

Included with Ellf

Annotation platformLabel data with the built-in app Prodigy, the go-to annotation tool in academia

Development supportEasily write, publish and run custom scripts and workflows via your coding assistant

User managementCollaborate with your team and invite students and annotators

Out-of-the-box infrastructureRun jobs in your own cluster in the cloud or locally, no DevOps experience required

Repeatable workflowsSet up, re-run and monitor annotation tasks, batch jobs and fully custom workflows

Project planning and logsCreate and update step-by-step plans and automatically log results and progress

Collaborate on data and experiments

Ellf gives your research group a unified platform for data, annotation and experiments – no more scripts on people’s machines or results buried in someone’s home directory. Students and collaborators can pick up each other’s work, build on previous experiments and keep projects moving.

✳︎Claude Code

› I need to clean the dataset and annotate the documents with the attached schema. What's the best way to do this?
⏺︎Let me put together a project plan and set up the first annotation task for you.

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Bring your own compute

Plug in a data-private cluster hosted on your own infrastructure, whether that’s a lab workstation or your institution’s cloud account. Your data and models never have to leave your servers.

Progress log

2026-10-11: imported and cleaned raw corpus
2026-10-12: labelled 500 examples for NER
2026-10-13: trained baseline model (F 0.82)

Dr. Charlie Lee

Researcher

Jordan Williams

PhD Student

Log planning and progress

Experiments, runs and results are logged automatically, so your whole group shares a single source of truth. Keep track of what’s been tried, reproduce past work and easily onboard new students.

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Create data resources

Ellf includes a powerful annotation platform to create high-quality datasets. Collaborate on labelling, review each other’s work and build reusable resources you can share across projects.

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Start your free trial to bring Ellf to your university, or read the docs to see how it all fits together.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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