Before founding Wirestock in 2019, Mikayel was involved with several photo editing and social products, focusing on monetization and product development, which developed a deep understanding of how creative tools scale and how creator economies function. That combination of economic vision and product experience is what led him to see the structural opportunity at the intersection of the creator economy and AI data demand. Not just as a marketplace problem, but as an infrastructure problem worth solving from the ground up.

This inspired him to found Wirestock. Wirestock builds premium, human-crafted visual training data for foundation model development, spanning video, image, 3D modalities and more, including Pretraining, SFT, RL, and RLHF pipelines. Our global network of contributors in photography, videography, illustration, graphic design, 3D, and other creative disciplines earn consistent, predictable income through the paid creative projects that power this work.