diff --git a/kazu/annotation/acceptance_test.py b/kazu/annotation/acceptance_test.py
index 26fb374f..8122ed71 100644
--- a/kazu/annotation/acceptance_test.py
+++ b/kazu/annotation/acceptance_test.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 import hydra
 from hydra.utils import instantiate
+from omegaconf.dictconfig import DictConfig
 
 from kazu.data import Entity, Document, IdsAndSource
 from kazu.pipeline import Pipeline
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ def acceptance_criteria() -> AcceptanceCriteria:
 
 
 @hydra.main(version_base=HYDRA_VERSION_BASE, config_path=".", config_name="config")
-def execute_full_pipeline_acceptance_test(cfg):
+def execute_full_pipeline_acceptance_test(cfg: DictConfig) -> None:
     manager = instantiate(cfg.LabelStudioManager)
     pipeline: Pipeline = instantiate(cfg.Pipeline)
     analyse_full_pipeline(pipeline, manager.export_from_ls(), acceptance_criteria())
@@ -75,9 +76,9 @@ def group_mappings_by_source(ents: Iterable[Entity]) -> dict[str, IdsAndSource]:
                 )
         return dict(mappings_by_source)
 
-    def calculate_ner_matches(self):
+    def calculate_ner_matches(self) -> None:
         combos = itertools.product(self.gold_ents, self.test_ents)
-        for (gold_ent, test_ent) in combos:
+        for gold_ent, test_ent in combos:
             if (
                 gold_ent.spans == test_ent.spans or gold_ent.is_partially_overlapped(test_ent)
             ) and gold_ent.entity_class == test_ent.entity_class:
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ def calculate_ner_matches(self):
                 self.ner_fp_soft.discard(test_ent)
                 self.ner_fn_soft.discard(gold_ent)
 
-    def calculate_linking_matches(self):
+    def calculate_linking_matches(self) -> None:
         for gold_ent, test_ents in self.gold_to_test_ent_soft.items():
             gold_mappings_by_source = self.group_mappings_by_source([gold_ent])
             test_mappings_by_source = self.group_mappings_by_source(test_ents)
@@ -305,7 +306,7 @@ def analyse_annotation_consistency(docs: list[Document]) -> None:
 
 
 @hydra.main(version_base=HYDRA_VERSION_BASE, config_path="../../", config_name="conf")
-def check_annotation_consistency(cfg):
+def check_annotation_consistency(cfg: DictConfig) -> None:
 
     manager = instantiate(cfg.LabelStudioManager)
     docs = manager.export_from_ls()
diff --git a/kazu/utils/build_and_test_model_packs.py b/kazu/utils/build_and_test_model_packs.py
index 971a57cd..21fc2c59 100644
--- a/kazu/utils/build_and_test_model_packs.py
+++ b/kazu/utils/build_and_test_model_packs.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ class BuildConfiguration:
     #: pack is built. If any exceptions are detected, the build will fail.
     sanity_test_strings: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
 
-    def __post_init__(self):
+    def __post_init__(self) -> None:
         if len(self.resources) > 0:
             self.requires_resources = True
         else:
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ def __init__(
         maybe_base_configuration_path: Optional[Path],
         skip_tests: bool,
         zip_pack: bool,
-    ):
+    ) -> None:
         """A ModelPackBuilder is a helper class to assist in the building of a model
         pack.
 
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ def __init__(
         os.environ["KAZU_MODEL_PACK"] = str(self.model_pack_build_path)
         self.build_config = self.load_build_configuration()
 
-    def __repr__(self):
+    def __repr__(self) -> str:
         """For nice log messages."""
         return f"ModelPackBuilder({self.target_model_pack_path.name})"
 
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ def load_build_configuration(self) -> BuildConfiguration:
             data = json.load(f)
         return BuildConfiguration(**data)
 
-    def apply_merge_configurations(self):
+    def apply_merge_configurations(self) -> None:
 
         # copy the target pack to the target build dir
         shutil.copytree(
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ def apply_merge_configurations(self):
         if self.build_config.requires_resources:
             self.copy_resources_to_target()
 
-    def copy_resources_to_target(self):
+    def copy_resources_to_target(self) -> None:
 
         for parent_dir_str, resource_list in self.build_config.resources.items():
             parent_dir_path = Path(parent_dir_str)
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ def build_caches_and_run_sanity_checks(self, cfg: DictConfig) -> "Pipeline":
                 )
         return pipeline
 
-    def report_tested_dependencies(self):
+    def report_tested_dependencies(self) -> None:
         dependencies = subprocess.check_output("pip freeze --exclude-editable", shell=True).decode(
             "utf-8"
         )
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bc55fbbb..64ff3269 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -212,13 +212,11 @@ disallow_untyped_defs = false
 # the numbers can be re-calculated with:
 # mypy kazu docs conftest.py | cut -f 1,2 -d ':' | sed '$d' | sort | uniq | cut -f 1 -d ':' | uniq -c | sort --reverse | awk '{file_without_dot_py = substr($2, 0, length($2)-3); gsub("/", ".", file_without_dot_py); print "  \""file_without_dot_py"\",  # "$1}'
 module = [
-  "kazu.distillation.models",              # 10
-  "kazu.utils.build_and_test_model_packs", # 5
-  "kazu.linking.sapbert.train",            # 4
-  "kazu.annotation.acceptance_test",       # 4
-  "kazu.utils.spacy_pipeline",             # 2
-  "kazu.distillation.tiny_transformers",   # 2
-  "kazu.distillation.metrics",             # 1
+  "kazu.distillation.models",            # 10
+  "kazu.linking.sapbert.train",          # 4
+  "kazu.utils.spacy_pipeline",           # 2
+  "kazu.distillation.tiny_transformers", # 2
+  "kazu.distillation.metrics",           # 1
 ]
 # we had a bunch of these in the codebase before we moved to a 'strict' mypy config, and it was too many
 # to fix at that time for the payoff. Having overrides for the modules that would error rather than