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Southeast Asia · Delivery hub

Manila delivery hub

An owned Corpshore hub with embedded local teams in Manila, Philippines. 4,200+, native coverage of English, Filipino, Cebuano, focused on Annotation & labeling, Content moderation, AI safety.

4,200+
Seat capacity
UTC+8
Timezone coverage
3
Core languages
Owned
Operating model
Languages

English · Filipino · Cebuano

Compliance posture

SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR

Location

Manila, Philippines

Corpshore's owned Manila hub, pinned on the map.

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City hub

Manila, Philippines

Southeast Asia

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Local presence

Overview

Manila is Corpshore's flagship Southeast Asian delivery hub and the center of its English-language annotation, content moderation, and safety work. The owned facility runs large full-time teams and carries the company's strongest formal certifications, which suits enterprise clients with strict vendor requirements. English, Filipino, and Cebuano are covered natively.

The Philippines has a long, deep outsourcing history and a workforce accustomed to Western business processes, quality standards, and shift work. That maturity shows up in fast ramp times for large annotation and moderation programs. Manila teams handle high-volume image, video, and text labeling alongside content-moderation and red-team-adjacent safety tasks.

Corpshore's three-tier QA cascade is fully staffed here, and the hub's scale makes it a natural place to run programs that need both throughput and consistent 97 percent plus accuracy targets.

Country context

Philippines at a glance

Public, approximate country-level context for the Manila hub. Figures are rounded and indicative, not Corpshore metrics.

Country
Philippines, Southeast Asia
Population
About 115 million
Official languages
Filipino and English
Currency
Philippine peso (PHP)
Timezone
UTC+8, no daylight saving
Median age
About 25 years
Rationale

Why Corpshore operates here

High English proficiency across a large, experienced outsourcing workforce.

A mature BPO ecosystem with people trained in Western quality and shift-work norms.

SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR posture that meets strict enterprise vendor requirements.

Scale to staff high-volume annotation and moderation programs quickly.

UTC+8 coverage that anchors the Asian working day for follow-the-sun operations.

People

Talent pool

The Philippines produces a large annual pool of English-fluent graduates, and its outsourcing sector has trained more than a million workers in structured quality processes. That gives Corpshore fast access to annotators and moderators who already understand rubrics, edge-case escalation, and shift discipline.

Native Filipino and Cebuano coverage supports local-language projects, while high English fluency makes Manila a default choice for English annotation, evaluation, and moderation at volume.

What we do here

Specializations

Multimodal annotation and labeling across image, video, and text at high volume.

Content moderation and trust-and-safety review with escalation workflows.

AI safety tasks including policy evaluation and harmful-content classification.

English-language evaluation and quality review for large programs.

Trust

Data residency and compliance

Posture

SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR

Manila holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, and operates under GDPR terms, giving clients audited controls for security, availability, and data handling. This is the hub most suited to regulated enterprise workloads with formal certification requirements.

Follow the sun

Timezone coverage

UTC+8 · Southeast Asia

At UTC+8, Manila covers the core Asian business day and overlaps Australian mornings and European late afternoons, making it a central node for continuous, follow-the-sun delivery.

Insights

Why this location works for AI data

The certification posture here, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, clears enterprise procurement that many delivery locations cannot.

Deep BPO experience shortens ramp time on large annotation and moderation programs.

High English fluency makes it a strong default for English evaluation and safety work.

Scale allows surge staffing without sacrificing the three-tier QA review layer.

Services

Relevant services

Questions

Manila hub FAQ

Yes. Corpshore owns and runs a physical delivery hub in Manila, Philippines, with 4,200+ and full-time local teams focused on Annotation & labeling, Content moderation, AI safety.

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