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Why does interoperable, tool-agnostic infrastructure matter for an annotation platform?

No single annotation tool handles every data type well — audio, video, text, and structured metadata all benefit from different interfaces. Building on generic APIs and data models instead of one fixed tool lets engineers swap or combine tools per task without rewriting the surrounding pipeline every time a new modality or use case shows up.

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